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Vol. LI No. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY FEBRUARY 20, 1983 25 cents USSR quits world psychiatric body Bishops' synod continues; VIENNA - The Soviet Union has Vienna headquarters in December. quit the World Psychiatric Association, She added that the government pro­ Patriarch Josyf honored raising speculation that the move was bably vetoed Soviet psychiatrists' plan made to head off its possible expulsion for a visit from Western specialists and ROME - Ukrainian Catholic Australia and Platon Kornyljak of West when the association congress meets decided that pulling out of the associa­ hierarchs continued their deliberations Germany. The Rev. Dr. Ivan Dacko here in July, reported the Associated tion was the least embarrassing way to during the second week of the Synod of served as deacon, and the Rev. Petro Press. cancel the psychiatrists' offer. Ukrainian Catholic Bishops, here in the Steciuk was also a celebrant. The congress had been expected to Prof. Kenneth Rawnsley, the presi­ chambers of the Vatican, reported A panakhyda took place afterwards take up American and British resolu­ dent of Britain's Royal College of America, the Ukrainian Catholic daily. in the crypts of St. Sophia, where tv/o tions to expel or suspend the Soviets for Psychiatry, told the Associated Press in The synod, which began Sunday, memorial plaques, dedicated to Ukrai­ abuse of psychiatry to suppress dissi­ London that he thought the Soviet January 30, took place behind closed nian Insurgent Army Gen. Roman dents. contingent withdrew because it "would doors with Archbishop-Coadjutor Shukhevych (Taras Chuprynka) and But some sources thought that the have found it difficult to have coped Myrosiaw Lubachivsky presiding over the fallen UPA soldiers, were blessed. Kremlin might have ordered the with­ with the possibility of a humiliating the meeting and the Rev. Dr. Ihor Metropolitans Maxim Hermaniuk and drawal to rein in the Soviet psychiatric defeat in the full glare of public debate" Monchak acting as secretary. Stephen Sulyk took part in the cere­ association, which said it would try to at the congress. On Saturday, February 5, a moleben mony as did Bishops Basil Losten, arrange for a foreign panel to visit the On August 31, 1977, the World was served in St. Josaphat's Papal Robert Moskal and Demetrius Gres- USSR and investigate long-standing Psychiatric Association meeting in Seminary, where the main celebrant was chuk. charges that psychiatry is being used Honolulu, narrowly voted to censure the newly consecrated bishop for Ukrai­ Afterwards, at a reception. Patriarch against dissidents. the Soviet Union for its psychiatric nian Catholics in France, Michael Josyf Slipyj accepted greetings from Ellen Mercer, the director of the abuses. The measure passed 90 to 88. Hrynchyshyn. Following the ceremony, representatives of various organiza­ American Psychiatric Association's Former Ukrainian dissident Leonid a dinner was held for the new bishop, tions. The guest speakers included office of international affairs in Wash­ Plyushch, who spent several years in the which was attended by Ukrainian Jaroslav and Slava Stetzko and Theo- ington, said she thought the withdrawal notorious Serbsky Institute for Forensic representatives from Rome and the doziy Kudlyk. Patriarch Josyf received was ordered by the Soviet government Psychiatry, joined a group of human- prefect of the Sacred Congregation for a Gold Cross of Servjce from the 1st because it thought such recent concilia­ rights activists in calling for the censure. Oriental Churches, Cardinal Wladislaw Division of the Ukrainian National tory gestures had gone too far. Dr. Harold Visotsky, the chairman of Rubin. The Rev. Sophronius Mudrij Army. She said the Soviet association, — the American association's committee was the master of ceremonies. Speeches Sessions of the synod continued called the All-Union Society of Psy­ on international abuse of psychiatrists were given by Archbishop Lubachivsky during the week and included dis­ chiatrists and Neuropathologists — after and psychiatry, said in a statement and Cardinal Rubin. Entertainment cussions about the proposed by-laws of ignoring three requests for information issued in Washington that though the was provided by the newly ordained the synod. On Tuesday evening, about 20 cases of alleged abuse, sub­ Soviet withdrawal "would seem to be an Rev. Roman Choly, who performed on February 8, in Rome's Columbia Hotel, mitted data on seven of the cases to the (Continued on page 13) the violin. an elegant banquet was held in celebra­ On Sunday, February 6, Bishop Neil tion of the patriarch's 91st birthday Savaryn celebrated an archepiscopal (which falls on February 17) as well as liturgy in the St. Sophia Sobor. Con- the 20th anniversary of his release from Freedom House rep, after Afghan visit, celebrants included Bishops Isidore the Soviet Union. says prisoners want to come to U.S. Borecky of Toronto, Ivan Prasko of (Continued on page 3)

NEW YORK - Seven soldiers of the Freedom House is a 42-year-old non- Soviet Union held by the Afghanistan partisan organization that monitors resistance have been interviewed in political rights, and issues advisories on Russian by an American woman who foreign-policy questions. traveled this month to a guerrilla John Richardson, president of the stronghold inside the beleaguered organization, urged Secretary Shultz to' country. facilitate the transfer of the Soviet Several prisoners who had defected prisoners to a non-governmental Ame­ to the freedom fighters pleaded to come rican immigration group. "A private to the United States. In a handwritten agency could arrange for the resettle­ note to Freedom House's representative ment of the prisoners in the United the soldiers wrote: "Help us make our States," said Mr. Richardson, who was, way to America...Help us in our striving for eight years, assistant secretary of to come to America. We would like to state for educational and cultural become American citizens." affairs. Their pleas are supported by Freedom Ms. Thorne was born in the USSR of House whose appeals director, Lud- Russian parents, and educated in the milla Thorne, entered Afghanistan for United States and Europe, Freedom two days in order to interview Soviet House has repeatedly condemned the prisoners. Freedom House believes the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan Afghan resistance will release the in December 1979. For the past two prisoners if the United States will accept years, however, Ms. Thorne and the them. The organization on Tuesday, organization have sought to assure February 15, formally asked Secretary proper treatment under the Geneva of State George P. Shultz to arrange for Convention for captured Soviet soldiers. the transfer. Some have been reported killed after Ms. Thorne, director of the Center being captured when Soviet forces for Appeals for Freedom of Freedom threatened the security of Afghan House, was accompanied to Afghanis­ resistance fighters holding the pri­ tan by an ABC-TV camera crew which soners. filmed the interviews February 3-5. Ms. Thorne arranged the precarious lliey were to be shown February 17 on nighttime border crossing for herself Newly consecrated Bishop Mkhae! Hrynchyshyn (right) celebrates the littirgy ai ''20,'20ч" the network news-magazine and the camera crew, 'i wanted to St. Sophia Sobor with (from left) Bishop Neil Savaryn, ArchbishopsCoadjiitor program. (Coiitiisiied ОЙ page 2) Myrosiaw Lisbaclilvsky тій Archblshop-Meiropolltan ЛІЛІІІШ Шгїііййшк. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY FEBRUARY 20, 1983 No/i

Dissident profile Shcharansky ends long hunger strike MOSCOW - The mother of im­ to that effect from Yuri Andropov, the prisoned Soviet dissident Anatoly Soviet leader. But Mrs. Milgrom re­ Yosyp Terelia: Shcharansky said on February 15 that fused to put faith in the account until she had received a letter from him she heard from her son. confirming that he had abandoned a Mr. Shcharansky, an activist in the the torment continues hunger strike after four months, report­ human-rights and Jewish emigration ed The New York Times, movements, was arrested in March 1977 JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Former According to Ida P. Milgrom, the and sentenced to three years in prison to Soviet political prisoner Yosyp Tere­ dissident's mother, Mr. Shcharansky be followed by 10 years in labor camps. lia, now 40 years old, has lived under said in a letter dated February 7 that he After he was transferred to a camp, he three occupations of his native had resumed eating on January 14. He was repeatedly incarcerated in a punish­ Boikivshchyna in the Transcarpa- wrote that he was gaining weight and ment cell 'for failing to work at thian region of Ukraine. A nationa­ that headaches and dizziness were rehabilitation and continuing to con­ list and activist in the underground abating, but that he was suffering from sider himself innocent." Ukrainian Catholic Church, he has heart pains, she said. already served 19 years - nearly half Mr. Shcharansky, who is completing his life — in Soviet prisons, labor the fifth year of a 13-year sentence on a camps and psychiatric hospitals. His fabricated conviction of espionage for Polish junta defers last term, four years in a mental the United States, went on a fast hospital, expired late in 1981 and he September 27 — Yom Kippur — to releasing detainees was released. protest the interception of letters and Early last summer, his brother, the suspension of visiting rights. Mrs. WARSAW - The Polish junta will Borys, was fatally wounded in a gun Milgrom subsequently learned that he not consider releasing any more politi­ battle with Soviet security forces in was being force-fed and that his health cal prisoners until sufficient domestic the rugged Carpathian Mountains. had deteriorated. stability has been achieved, a govern­ Shortly after, Yosyp and his wife She said Mr. Shcharansky wrote that ment spokesman said on February 8. Olena, a physician, were visited by Yosyp Terelia he had ended his hunger strike after According to a report by Reuters, the KGB. Their home was searched, authorities at his prison in Chistopol Jerzy Urban said more than 1,500 and he was threatened with re-arrest. On March 1, he was arrested and had allowed him to exchange messages detainees had applied for clemency The KGB confiscated books, photo" Transferred to Vinnytsia Prison, with her. under a program announced in Decem­ graphs and manuscripts. where he was immediately given 15 The exchange of messages occurred in ber when parts of martial law were Little in Mr. Terelia's early child­ days in the penal block. On May 2, he January when she was in Chistopol for suspended, but among them were com­ hood appears to presage his eventual was tried and sentenced to a seven- her alloted semi-annual visit. This time mon criminals. immersion into the Ukrainian year term in a severe-regimen camp. the meeting was barred by the prison Mr. Urban, speaking at his weekly struggle. He was born in 1943 in Moved to a labor camp in the village authorities on the grounds that Mr. news conference, confirmed that Lech Volivechchyna during the Hunga­ of Ladyshyno, he was stripped and Shcharansky was still on a hunger Walesa, leader of the outlawed Soli­ rian occupation of Carpathian U- searched. A medallion of the Virgin strike. darity trade union, had been summoned kraine. His father was a dedicated Mary was ripped from his neck and Mrs. Milgrom, who is 74, insisted on to appear before a military prosecutor Communist who organized the first he was given 15 days in solitary seeing the warden, the prison doctor and in connection with an investigation of collective farm in the village in 1949. confinement. Other prisoners were her son. Finally, on January 14, officials five former union advisors active in The same year, he was wounded by forbidden to talk with him. During permitted an exchange of notes, and it KOR, a dissident committee. what officials described as a "Ban- morning assembly, he was singled was this exchange that prompted Mr. The five, including the group's co- derite bullet." His mother graduated out for abuse and daily called a Shcharansky to end his fast. founders, Jacek Kuron and Adam from the Higher Party School of the "bandit." The first news came a week later when Michnik, have been formally charged Central Committee of the Commu­ In a particularly grisly episode, Georges Marchais, the French Commu­ with treason, and could face the death nist Party of Ukraine. In a 1976 letter camp guards rounded up all Chris­ nist leader, said he had received a letter penalty if convicted. to then KGB head Yuri Andropov, tian prisoners, bound their hands released in the West as a booklet and feet and forced food down their titled "Notes from a Madhouse," Mr. throats. Later, guards forced the Switzerland and only Soviet diplomats Terelia wrote: "As you can see I other prisoners to stand by and Freedom House... have access to the prisoners. One, Yury could not have been born a 'bourgeois watch as they beat Mr. Terelia into (Continued from page 1) Povarnitsyn, has made several attempts nationalist.' " unconsciousness. discover the wishes of the prisoners and to escape from the Swiss minimum- As a child, Mr. Terelia attended Forced to subsist on a diet of stale determine whether their captors would security facility. church services with his grand­ bread, meatless broth, salt and sar­ agree to release them to another coun­ "Their fate, upon returning home, mother, an experience that was to dines, Mr. Terelia lost weight. At the try," she said. Other Soviet prisoners would be precarious indeed," said Ms. instill in him a love of God and his same time, his work regimen re­ taken by the Afghans were turned over Thorne. "At best," she added, "they Church. His troubles began in school quired him to clean-up water from to the International Committee of the would end up in the gulag, the Soviet when an adult called him a "filthy prisoners' cells with three twigs. Red Cross and are interned in Switzer­ acronym for its labor camps and pri­ Hutsul." Mr. Terelia responded by In November, with the first winter land. "There is some question," she sons system. At worst, they would be spitting in his face, and he was snows already on the ground, new added, "whether they will be permitted executed, especially those prisoners expelled for "hooliganism." He was abuses began. In one incident, Mr. after two years to decide whether to who have publicly made strong state­ to be expelled two more times for Terelia was forced to stand naked in return to the Soviet Union or choose a ments condemning the Soviet invasion similarly sticking up for his ethnic a corridor before other prisoners. country of asylum." of Afghanistan." She said that the background. When asked if it was true that Chris­ Before their transfer to Switzerland, Afghan resistance is unhappy over the After completing construction tians were baptized by water, he the Soviet soldiers had to sign a written Red Cross arrangement, "particularly school in 1961, Mr. Terelia began answered, yes. He was then chased statement implying that after two years since it has done nothing to help work in his field, but he soon found out naked into the snow, doused with they will return to the USSR. The resistance fighters taken by the Soviet himself in trouble with the law for his water and told to hold a small icon of Soviet Union paid for their travel to forces." nationalist activities. Placed under the Jerusalem Mother of God. police surveillance, he was arrested in In 1967, the Kirovohrad regional 1962 and charged with stealing wea­ court sentenced him to eight years in pons under Article 222 of the Ukrai­ a severe-regimen camp for "ten­ nian Criminal Code. He was sen­ dentious interpretation of the history tenced to four years in a corrective of Ukraine and slanderous fabrica­ labor camp. tions about the policies of the govern­ On January 4, 1963, he escaped ment and the party." Ukrainian Weelly from an Uzhhorod prison but was On March 8, 1968, he was moved FOUNDED 1933 caught a short time later. Tried to a camp in the Mordovian ASSR. again, he was sentenced to five years There, he met Ukrainian dissident Ukrainian weekly newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal in a severe-regimen labor camp. In Yaroslav Lesiv. Almost from the first non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, NJ. 07302 1965, he escaped again and managed day he was threatened by the camp (The Ukrainian Weekly - USPS 570-870) to remain free under assumed names administration. Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. for seven months before being caught While in the camp jail, he was and jailed. struck by paralysis. He was trans­ The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: In early 1966, the KGB told Mr. ferred to the camp hospital, where a (201) 434-0237, 434-0807 (201) 451-2200 Terelia's mother that if her son woman doctor called him a 'filthy (212)227-4125 (212) 227-5250 repented he would be released. On Banderite scum" and warned him Yearly subscription rate: S8, UNA menribers - S5. February 28, Mr. Terelia appeared to about faking illness. In three days he recant at the regional office of the began to hemorrhage profusely from Postmaster, send address changes to: KGB in Voroshylovgrad. He refused, the nose, mouth and right ear. He THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Editor Roma Sochan Hadzewycz however, to renounce the outlawed was finallv taken to a local hospital, PC. Box 346 Associate editor George Bohdan Zarycky Jersey City. N J 07303 Astittant editor Marta Kolomayets Uniate Church. (Continued on page 3) Ш^^тш No. і THE UKRAINIAN WFEKLY FEBRUARY 20, 1983 Riot police use tear gas Editorial preparation nearly complete to break up Warsaw protest for first volume of Шшт encyclopedia WARSAW - Several hundred bers interned after martial law was EDMONTON - Volume I of the of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in policemen, firing tear-gas grenades and imposed December 13, 1981, four-volume Encyclopedia of Ukraine Europe, the Canadian Institute of wielding rubber truncheons, dispersed publication project is in the final stages Ukrainian Studies, and the Canadian more than 2,000 people demonstrating A crowd estimated at 2,000 to 3,000 of editorial preparation. The project is Foundation for Ukrainian Studies. for the outlawed Solidarity labor union moved into the street, singing pro- expected in its entirety to extend over a The project office is located at the on February 13, reported the Associated Solidarity songs and chanting "Down 10-year period. University of Toronto, where editorial Press. with the junta" and "Leszek, Leszek," Volume I, including letters A-F, has work is conducted under the direction expanded from a projected 1,500 entries of Dr. Danylo H. Struk, professor in the More than 200 policemen moved into the nickname of Lech Walesa, head of the union. to a final count of close to 2,800 entries. department of Slavic languages and position outside Holy Cross Church in Topics as varied as agriculture, futurism, literatures. Prof. Struk was appointed downtown Warsaw as a commemora­ Policemen fired about four tear-gas cartography, church, emigration and to the position of project director tive liturgy ended for Solidarity mem- cannisters at the crowd and then attack­ the dissident movement will fill more following Prof. George Luckyj's re­ ed with riot batons, chasing small than 1,200 pages of text. Illustrations, signation in November of last year. Yosyp Terelia... groups through the downtown streets. color plates and a special map-insert Prof. Struk has been closely asso­ Western reporters saw the police detain coded to geographical entries of the ciated with the encyclopedia project for (Continued from page 2) about a haHklozen people, said the AP. encyclopedia will augment the volume. a long time, having spent his sabbatical treated and released. The expansion of the encyclopedia year, 1980-81, in Sarcelles, France, In the summer of 1969, he was Meanwhile, Cardinal Jozef Glemp, in project has resulted in a demanding working with the project editor-in- transferred to another camp. By the his first sermon since becoming cardinal publication schedule. In order to chief. Prof. Volodymyr Kubijovyc. fall, he was sentenced to three years some two weeks ago, defended against streamline the preparation of Volume I Currently, Prof. Kubijovyc is assisted of prison regime for allegedly plan­ criticism that he has taken too moderate and to enhance the productivity of the by Prof, Vasyl Markus, associate editor, ning to escape. Moved to Vladimir a stand toward the Communist govern­ project staff, the Canadian Foundation and Prof. Arkady Joukovsky, assistant Prison, he was placed in an ice-cold ment. for Ukrainian Studies recently acquired editor. cell, compelling him to write a letter a Xerox 860 word processor/micro­ Together with Prof. Struk, thestaff of protest to Soviet leader Leonid "Some people say that the primate computer for use on the project. The of the Toronto project office includes Brezhnev. For this he was examined should be more militant, should be "technologizing'' of encyclopedia work Dr. Taras Zakydalsky, translator, by a psychiatrist, who found him sharper" in dealing with authorities, he has proceeded at a rapid rate, and the Roman Senkus and Halyna Hryn, sane but physically ill. Later, graffitti said in a sermon at St. Andrew's Church benefits of computer application to a editorial assistants, Roma Yanchinski, began appearing in the prison calling in downtown Warsaw. "Everyone wants project of such vast dimensions are now research assistant, and Sonia Maryn, Mr. Terelia a KGB agent and "a the hierarchy, the episcopate, to carry being realized daily. project coordinator. Carpathian Yid (Jew)." out its programs, but the Church must The encyclopedia project is a publica­ The appearance of Volume I of the On .January 5, 1972, a criminal be faithful to the program outlined in tion of the University of Toronto Press Encyclopedia of Ukraine is expected in case was opened against him and the Gospel." and is being prepared under the auspices early fall 1984. dissident Zinoviy Krasivsky, a poet. Mr. Krasivsky was charged with Rubin, Archbishop Myroslaw Marusyn, nian Catholic Bishops set as its goal the writing a collection of poems, and Bishops' synod... the secretary of the Sacred Congrega­ stabilization of synodal cooperation Mr. Terelia was accused of distribut­ (Continued from page 1) tion, and Cardinals Angeio Rossi, within the Ukrainian episco­ ing them. This time, he was diagnosed Over 130 persons attended the ban­ Silvio Oddi, Pallaccini, Otilio Rossi, pate. The most important matter on the insane at the notorious Serbsky quet, among them six cardinals. Prof. Giuseppe Casoria, Also present were agenda was to prepare by-laws for the Institute for Forensic Psychiatry. He Wolodymyr Janiw of the Ukrainian Archbishop Henryk Roman Gudlino- synod; the ones written in 1962 apply was placed in a special psychiatric Free University opened the banquet in vich of Wroclaw, Achile Silvestrini of only to conferences of the Ukrainian hospital in Sychovka, where he was French. Archbishop Lawrence Capo- the Vatican State Secretariat, Arch­ episcopate, and do not meet the needs of called, alternately, a "dirty Jew" or a villa of Loretto, at one time secretary to bishop Lawrence Capovilla, Augustina a synod. The Friday, February 11, ''Khakhol" (derogatory term for Pope John XXIII, delivered a speech in Mayer of one of the congregations, and morning session of the synod was to be Ukrainian) by the hospital guards. In Italian of reminiscences about the Rumanian Cardinal Trayano Krissan. visited by the secretary of the Sacred his letter to Mr. Andropov, Mr, arrival of Cardinal Slipyj in Rome. Congregation of Oriental Churches, Terelia charged that there were 300 Archbishop Capovilla said that the The ambassadors of France, Ger­ Archbishop Marusyn. political prisoners in the hospital, then-metropolitan of Lviv walked into many, Austria, Paraguay and the including Byelorussian activist the room, got down on his knees before charges d'affaires of the United States, On Saturday, February 12, the synod Mykhailo Kukabaka. He also esti­ the pope and recited the prayer, "I Canada, Australia, Brazil, Belgium and was due to close with an archepiscopal mated that between 1963 and 1973 a believe." The archbishop ended his Lithuania, also attended the banquet. moleben to the Blessed Virgin Mary at total of 475 Sychovka inmates were moving speech by saying that he hoped Prof. Thomas Bird, Dr. Bohdan Lon- the site of St. Josaphat's grave in St. killed or tortured to death. the Ukrainian Catholic Church will chyna, Dr. Romana Nawrocky, Prof. Peter's Basilica at 10 a.m. resurrect in Ukraine. Vasyl Markus and Mr. and Mrs. Stetzko On April 7, 1976, Mr. Terelia was Also speaking at the banquet was as well as representatives of Ukrainian The Ukrainian Catholic hierarchs released, A month earlier, his wife Cardinal Piotro Pallacini, the prefect of religious orders, the Ukrainian commu­ were scheduled to meet in a private was dismissed from her job. In the Holy Congregation on Saints, who nity and guests from various bureaus of audience with Pope John Paul II at 11 addition, Mr. Terelia became seriously gave a biography of Patriarch Josyf. the Vatican attended the festivities. a.m. ill, suffering the effects of his incar­ Representing the synod of bishops, The bishops were to be the dinner ceration. and the Ukrainian community, Bishop Before the banquet, during the social guests of the Basilian Sisters in Rome Andrew Sapelak wished the soon-to-be hour, the secretary of the Vatican State, that evening. In September, he applied to the 91-year-old patriarch "Mnohaya Lita." Cardinal Agostino Casarolli visited with the patriarch and expressed his On Sunday, February 13,at 4p.m,the Vinnytsia Eparchy to become an The patriarch addressed the guests at bishops were to end their two-week stay Orthodox priest. Outside the eparchy the banquet toward the end of the three- regrets that he could not stay for the banquet due to previous engagements. in Rome with a pontifical liturgy on the office, he was forced into a car, hour-long affair, thanking all present occasion of Patriarch Josyf's 91st driven to a cemetery and badly for attending. He thanked God for The banquet ended with the singing birthday. beaten. Semi-conscious, he was tied keeping him alive on this earth. Quoting of "Mnohaya Lita" and a closing prayer Soon afterward many of the bishops to a cross, where he remained for two Pope Paul VI, he called up on Ukrai­ delivered by Metropolitan Hermaniuk. were scheduled to journey to Paris to days being cut down. His tormentors nians to unite, for "where there is The synodal sessions were scheduled attend the first liturgy celebrated by warned him that if he recounted the strength, there is victory." to take place through Saturday, February Bishop Michael Hrynchyshyn, the episode to anyone, he would be sent Participants of the banquet included 12. newly consecreted bishop for Ukrainian back to a mental hospital. all the bishops of the synod. Cardinal At the sessions, the Synod of Ukrai­ Catholics in France, reported America. Repressions continued against his family. His mother was dismissed from her job. In 1977, after writing the letter to Mr. Andropov, Mr. Terelia was once again placed in a mental institution, this time for four years. He was diagnosed a "paranoid schizophrenic," Given the fate of his brother, it is not known how long Mr. Terelia will remain free. During a search of his home last яігппігг, a KGB officer warned ^.41 chat he rould tnd op b^.r' u .^ .15 1 'П) or be ULed

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Organizing contest eligibility announced Fraternally yours JERSEY CITY, NJ. - The Or­ honorary prizes to UNA'ers who enroll ganizing Department of the Ukrainian at least one member during each month by Marta Korduba National Association has announced of 1983. UNA fraternal activities coordinator that 105 branch'^s of the UNA are Ten special monetary awards worth eligible to participate in the 1983 S2,000,including a S500 first prize and organizing contest because their secre­ nine lesser prizes, will be presented at taries or other officers had enrolled at the end of the year. Who we are: myths and facts least one new UNA member during the Also eligible for this contest are month of January. members who during the year have about the Ukrainian National Association The Supreme EAccutive Committee enrolled 25 new members for life in­ Close your eyes. Think: UNA. What therefore, a poor monetary risk. had previously announced that in this surance policies. comes to mind? An insurance policy Fact: The UNA fares much better jubilee year, which celebrates the anni­ The 105 branches enrolled 146 new taken out by your parents while you than commercial organizations as far versaries of the UNA publications members in the month of January. The were still a child? The Ukrainian organi­ as stability is concerned. Consider these Svoboda, The Ukrainian Weekly and goal of the campaign is to organize zation that sends you Christmas cards figures recently compiled by Standard the Veselka children's magazine, it will 4,000 new members for SIO million of and dividend checks in the mail? Analytical Service Inc. When x:ompar- award a string of both monetary and insurance during 1983. Perhaps no other organization in the ing the UNA with the 25 largest in­ Ukrainian community is ridden with as surance companies in the United States, many misconceptions and ambiguous the report found the UNA to be superior UNA bowling tourney slated images as the UNA. The majority of in areas indicative of financial stability: today's young Ukrainian Americans a) solvency (margin of assets over Accommodations will be available at know very little about one of the most liabilities for each SlOO of liabilities): ROCHESTER, N.Y. - The Ukrai­ average for 25 largest life insurance nian National Association's 17th Na­ the Holiday Inn-Genessee Plaza, 120 powerful and, ironically, perhaps the Main St., in Rochester. For reserva­ most highly visible Ukrainian organiza­ companies - S 104.84; Ukrainian Na­ tional Bowling Tournament has been tional Association — SI 34.93; slated for Saturday and Sunday, May tions, call the hotel at (716) 546-6400. tion in America. 28 and 29, in Rochester, N.Y. For further information, write to: In view of its long-term implications, b) liquidity (assets in cash, bonds and Frank Kubarich, general chairman, 72 this is perhaps the most serious of stocks for each SlOO of liabilities — a The tournament, open to ail active substantial amount of assets readily UNA members, will be governed by Mayville Lane, Rochester, N.Y. 14617, problems confronting the UNA. or call (716) 544-4954. Many UNA secretaries and organizers convertible to cash is an indication of ABC and WIBC moral sanctions, and the ability with which an insurer can will be held at the В.Ї.С. Bowl, 2121 N. lament the fact that sheer patriotic obligation no longer behooves or in­ meet unforeseen emergencies that may Goodman St., Rochester. arise): average for 25 largest life in­ Doubles and singles games will be UNA changes spires today's young person to give his time, money or energy to an organiza­ surance companies - S48.29; Ukrai­ played on Saturday at 12:30 and 3 p.m. nian National Association — S98.44. All team events will take place Sunday tion. Neither does he feel obliged to age limitations render his support to an organization Thus, we see that the UNA offers as at noon. sound an investment alternative as There are guaranteed prizes for men's JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Effective simply because his parents belonged or January 1, 1983, the Ukrainian Na­ just because it's Ukrainian. commercial agencies. The major diffe­ and women's team events. The men's rence lies in the fact that the UNA's net team prizes are S900 for first place and tional Association instituted new age In a society where so many things, limitations on amounts of insurance from deodorant to drive-in churches, profits are pumped right back into the S450 for second place. Women's team Ukrainian community, rather than into prizes are S400 for first place, S200 for members may acquire without a me­ vie for our attention, allocating per­ dical examination. sonal time and resources becomes the dividends of stockholders. In the second place. The deadline for entering last four years alone, the UNA doled the tournament is May 1, The following are the maximum increasingly complex. Unfortunately, many young Ukrai­ out SI 10,476 to various Ukrainian Following the games, there will be a amounts of insurance coverage available organizations. bowler's social on Saturday evening at 7 for various age groups. nians have a very limited understanding p.m. at the Ukrainian Civic Center, 831 To age 40 550,000 of the UNA, or, worse yet, they harbor Myth No. 3: There is no place for Joseph Ave., Rochester, featuring an To age 45 S25,000 misconceptions which preclude their young Ukrainians in the UNA. Because open bar, food and dancing after 9 p.m. To age 50 510,000 involvement with the UNA. In the past many UNA branch officers are older, On Sunday evening there will be a To age 55 55,000 two and one-half years, I have en­ the UNA is primarily for the middle- banquet and dance at St. Mary's Pro­ To age 60 53,000 countered a variety of misperceptions aged and seniors. tection Ukrainian Orthodox Church, To age 65 51,000 ranging from the incredulous to the Fact: The UNA encompasses more 3176 St. Paul Blvd. There is no limit on the amount of comical. young Ukrainians than any other U- krainian organization. (There are over The cost of the two social events is insurance a member may purchase if he Following are the most common submits to a medical examination, UNA-related myths and the facts that 15,000 juvenile members presently S25 per person. Banquet tickets only are enrolled in the UNA.) And, the time is S18 per person. (except where limited by state law). contradict them. Myth No. 1: The UNA lacks the ripe for the input and leadership of resources needed to implement signifi­ young Ukrainians in the UNA. Many Obituary cant projects and activities. UNA branches have accumulated sub­ Fact: Few are cognizant of the UNA's stantial funds in their treasuries which vast resources. Among them are: should be used to mobilize activities on William Choly, Knight of St. Gregory a) membership: the UNA's network the local level. What is needed most is of 460 branches unites over 80,000 the ingenuity and leadership abilities of YONKERS, N.Y. - William B. Ukrainians in the United States and Ca­ young Ukrainians to set the tone — and to Choly, who in 1980 was one of three nada; make the decisions that will benefit the Ukrainians given the pontifical honor b) press: Sovoboda and The Ukrai­ Ukrainian community. of being named a Knight of St. Gregory nian Weekly have the highest circula­ Myth No. 4: UNA Supreme Presi­ for his service to the Church, died here tion among Ukrainian newspapers; dent John O. Flis wears his bow tie at all at St. John's Riverside Hospital on together, they reach approximately times — even while wearing his smoker. January 20. He was 64. 20,000 homes; Fact: This writer attempted to inter­ Mr. Choly was invested with the c) assets: UNA assets amount to over view a number of persons close to the pontifical honor during a solemn cere­ S48 million. supreme president himself, but found mony at St. Michael's Ukrainian Ca­ Added together, these factors make herself stonewalled. Even Mrs. Flis had tholic Church for his dedicated service the UNA the most powerful organiza­ no comment. to the parish and to the Ukrainian tion in the Ukrainian community. Catholic Diocese of Stamford, Conn. Myth No. 2: Ukrainian organizations For the answer to this and other Active with St. Michael's Church are, as a rule, less stable and less UNA-related questions turn to the next since 1946, he served on the parish dependable than non-Ukrainian (Ame­ "Fraternally yours" column in two building committee and is credited with rican or Canadian) institutions and are, weeks. being instrumental in organizing the work for the new church building at Shonnard Place and North Broadway here. He was an usher at the church, a lay trustee since 1977 and served on Insurance offer extended many other various committees in the JERSEY CITY, NJ. - The UNA ages of 0 and 65 can double the face parish. home office announced that the special amount of their insurance coverage He was president of the St. Michael's William Choly double-your-Iife-insurance offer for without an additional medical exam. Brotherhood after having served as its UNA members has been extended TTie minimum amount of insurance vice president for many years. He was a ment Fund in Stamford. through March 31. protection that may be acquired ,this member of St. Michael's Golden Age Involved with amateur athletics for The offer, originally announced in way is SI,000. The insurance premium Club. most of his life, he was the founding the fall of 1982, was scheduled to expire to be paid depends on the amount and Mr. Choly was also one of the original president of the Yonkers Track and on December 31, but the UNA Supreme plan selected by the member, and the trustees of the Holy Spirit Ukrainian Field Council. He served on the Parks Executive Committee voted to continue member's age. Catholic Cemetery located in Hampton- Board, was the Yonkers delegate to the it for another three months. For details, members may write to: burgh, N.Y. He was also a member of Federation of Athletic Clubs and served In accordance with the offer, all Ukrainian Naitonal Association, P.O. the St. Basil College Seminary Endow- (Continued on page 15) present UNA members between the Box 17a, Jersey City, NJ. 07303. No. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY FEBRUARY 20, 1983

Modernization and its impact on Jewish-Ukrainian relations by Profs. Howard Aster and Peter J. Potichnyj

CONCLUSION This crucial experiment in what we, 1920 is both fascinating and instruc­ a fierce struggle to preserve some small as Canadians, might call institutiona­ tive. Solomon I. Goldelman's book dimensions of cultural and linguistic Part IV lized and politicized multiculturalism "Jewish National Autonomy in U- integrity in the face of massive pressures We have seen how the forces of within a federal state did not last very kraine, 1917-1920" is probably the from the Soviet regime. modernization deeply affected the long, unfortunately. But, clearly, it is a single best source on the subject. Goldel- The 20th century is an enormous traditional structures of both the Ukrai­ concept which found its way into the man argues that: "Jewish national nightmare for many peoples. In East nian and Jewish communities. On the heart and center of the experiment of autonomy flashed by on the horizon of and Central Europe three nations in political level, both communities de­ Ukrainian independence, short-lived as Jewish life like a brilliant comet; then particular faced the prospect of pre­ veloped a variety of political move­ it was. disappeared without a trace. And of the meditated and imminent annihilation ments, parties and leaders which es­ The idea of national autonomy intense creative work of the democratic - Armenians, Jews and also Ukrai­ poused different solutions to the politi­ emerged in the latter part of the I9th Jewish community during the course of nians. From the mid 1920s until 1932, cal dilemmas facing their communities. centurv as the logical political proposal four years of revolution there was Ukrainian national life was systemati­ The processes of political fragmenta­ in situations where the tides of nationa­ nothing left but misty reminiscences of cally assaulted, their cultural and tion proceeded unabated through the lism met the realities of disintegrating something brilliant, that had drowned national institutions continuously early part of the 20th century. empires. In East and Central Europe, in dark fear and torment and that was destroyed and under the pretext of While it is possible to analyze these these two forces coincided and the preserved in the national memory from collectivization, up to 6 million people movements, parties, etc., along a variety notion of national autonomy, therefore, the pogrom era, which came in para­ perished. In East and Central Europe, of dimensions, what is of concern to us took hold in many regions. doxical concurrence with the structure by 1945, as a result of Stalinist policies is to identify the points at which there is The fundamental tenet of national of autonomous national life. and Nazism, 10 centuries of Jewish life an intersection, coincidence or simila­ autonomy was that certain groups Jewish national autonomy and the in that region came to an end. From the rity in proposals which emanated from constituted a nationality and that Ukrainian revolution came on the scene ashes of 1945 emerged the state of Israel the Jewish and Ukrainian communities nationality expressed itself through a of events as Siamese twins. With the fall in 1948. Ukrainian national life still simultaneously. This crucial point of specific language and a specific set of of an independent Ukrainian state there hangs precariously unresolved to this intersection is the notion of national cultural expressions. Moreover, each followed automatically an end also to day. autonomy. national grouping had a right to define a Jewish national autonomy."^6 What can we learn from Ukrainian Why is this idea crucial and what does set of political relations within which its The features of national autonomy and Jewish history in the 20th century it indicate to us about the possibilities of linguistic and cultural expressions granted to the Jews in this period were, and from that unique period 1917-20? Jewish-Ukrainian relations? In viewing would be ensured and could flourish. indeed, impressive. For example, the First, the apogee, the highest and the long history of Jewish-Ukrainian Ukrainian Central Council (Rada) most accommodating period of Jewish- The tortuous question for most relations, there are very few, if any, recognized the rights of its national Ukrainian relations rests in the period national groups was to define the nature points at which Jewish and Ukrainian minorities, including the Jews, and 1917-20. Most significantly, it is in the of those political relations. Some groups perspectives and interests coincide. provided for them a Statute of National- condition of Ukrainian independence argued that only within the context of Indeed, as we have argued previously, Personal Autonomy, which was adopt­ that Jews and Ukrainians were able to political independence could the na­ the fundamental difficulty in Jewish- ed on January 9, 1918, Soon afterwards, fashion a viable and constructive rela­ tional groups ensure their long-term Ukrainian relations has to do with the there followed a Ministry of Jewish tionship. Or, to put it somewhat viability in linguistic and cultural terms. failure of the coincidence of interests Affairs, with a staff of over 100 persons. differently, for the centuries when Jews Others argued that this viabihty could and perspectives. The Jews of Ukraine elected a Jewish and Ukrainians lived contiguously but be assured within a kind of quasi- National Council to develop and insti­ under foreign domination, Jewish and In the political cauldron of the first federal system, so that a variety of tute their cultural pohtics. Ukrainian interests and perspectives part of this century in Ukrainian regions national groups could share equally the could never intersect. When foreign within the Russian and Austro-Hunga- same set of^political institutions and yet, Throughout East and Central Europe, domination was thrown off, then Jews rian empires, we witness, for the first they could preserve their linguistic and the idea of national autonomy had and Ukrainians could construct a time, the coincidence of interests and cultural qualities. This latter idea different forms of development. Most salutary relationship. As we have seen, perspectives on fundamental political emerged as the notion of national experiments in national autonomy this point of intersection began with the problems from both the Jewish and autonomy. Ukrainian communities. As we have started auspiciously. But throughout endorsement of the principle of national Obviously, there is a logical extension shown previously, the cycle of emanci­ Eastern Europe, the fate of national autonomy. When Ukrainian indepen­ from the notion of national autonomy pation and then repression, the tides of autonomy collapsed shortly after 1920 dence collapsed and the principle of to the notion of political independence. secularization and industrial develop­ and from its collapse arose rightist national autonomy was lost, disaster Indeed, there are many movements, ment, the growing preoccupations with reactions and fascist dictatorships. beset both Jews and Ukrainians. individuals and groups, within both the the question of national fate and the It is worthwhile noting, however, as Jewish and Ukrainian communities, Second, it is worth noting that during solution to the national question — all Goldelman indicates to us, that: "Je­ which moved from one concept to the World War II, for political reasons, these problems and forces affected both wish national autonomy in Ukraine was next. If one endorsed the notion of when Russian power was relaxed over Ukrainians and Jews alike. And, more­ not an isolated phenomenon in the pohtical independence, then the colla­ the Ukrainian region, the idea of cul­ over, the resultant fragmentation of Russian revolution. Similar parallel borative possibilities between Jews and tural autonomy was once again revived. political forces occurred in both com­ events can be found also within the Ukrainians were minimized. Each na­ In 1946, for example, Yuriy Smolych, a munities. framework of some of the other na­ Ukrainian writer, proposed the revival tional group must undertake its own tional revolutions such as those of Within this fragmentation, the idea of struggle for political independence. If, of Jewish institutions in the context of national autonomy appears as4he Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and partly in the revival of the principle of national however, one adopted and endorsed the Byelorussia. singular idea which binds Ukrainian option of national autonomy within a autonomy. Alas, this idea was again and Jewish interests together. Ob­ But when we compare the national quashed with the attack by Stalin both quasi-federal political structure, then, achievements of the Jewish minority in viously, the idea itself is, therefore, obviously, there was significant room Jews and Ukrainians, the first under the worth studying because it identifies the those countries with the extent, compe­ guise of "rootless cosmopolitanism" for close collaboration between Jews tence, practical activity, and particular­ common ground on which Jewish- and Ukrainians. The period 1917-20 and the second for "bourgeois nationa­ Ukrainian relations co-existed for some ly with the formal constitutional status lism." was the critical period when these two of Jewish autonomy within the frame­ time. Third, the same forces have fashioned options were debated, acted upon and work of the Ukrainian state, we become There is, however, a second and more the history of Jews and Ukrainians in put into political practice in Ukraine, cognizant of the exclusive originality of dramatic reason that the notion of the 19th and 20th centuries. Seculariza­ How did this come about? the autonomous status of the Jewish national autonomy is critical in Jewish- tion and the collapse of 19th century Between 1905 and 1910, national minority in Ukraine, and of the exem­ Ukrainian relations. From the years empires provoked the forces of nationa­ autonomy became the fundamental plary character of this status. The great 1917-20, national autonomy was more lism among both Jews and Ukrainians. principle of all modern Jewish move­ extent of national autonomy granted than an idea in the Ukrainian region. The struggles for national autonomy ments. Jonathan Frankel, for example, the Jewish minority in Ukraine stands During this period, national autonomy and political independence in the face of argues that: "Although Dubnov and emerged as the political practice and the alone in the entire history of the Jewish Zhiilovsky were the first to advocate the basis for fashioning critical institutions. people in the diaspora. It was a distinct (Continued on page 13) idea of autonomism (or extraterritorial It evolved as a critical prototype of the and unique example among the attempts self-government), the Bund alone took kind of political formations possible for to regulate international relations in 25. Jonathan Frankel, "Prophecy and it up at an early stage (in 1901) and thus ethnically divided societies. many multi-national states."27 Politics," op. cit., p. 171. FrankePs book lent it great weight. It was adopted in offers us a good discussion of the principles the years 1905-06 by nearly all the Fart V of national autonomism. Perhaps, one of the Howard Aster and Peter J, Potichnyj Jewish parties in Russia and in 1918 (as most interesting thinkers who approached are professors of political science at 'national rights') by the leaders of The period of Ukrainian indepen­ the idea of national autonomy was Ben McMaster University in Hamilton, American Jewry. Via this route it found dence came to an end in 1920 and along Barochov. His work is now available in Ont, Their first joint research paper, its way in 1919-20 into the Paris Peace with it ended the period of Jewish English in ""Nationalism and the Class Struggle: A Marxism Approach to the titled ''Jewish-Ukrainian Relations: Treaties, which dealt with the newly national autonomy. However, the Jewish Problem," selected writings by Ben Two Solitudes," was serialized in The independent states of non-Soviet achievements at this period lasted into Eastern Europe. Jewish autonomism Barochov, Wesport, Conn., Greenwood Weekly in July'August 1982, the mid-I920s. Both Jewish and Ukrai­ Press, 1972. was explicitly rejected by the Bolshevik This paper was presented at the nian communities fell victim to Soviet 26. Solomon 1. Goldelman, 'Jewish conference on Ukrainian-Jewish co­ regime. "25 nationalities policies, Russification and National Autonomy in Ukraine," 1917- operation held in Washington on Sep­ The history of Jewish cultural auto­ centralized control. By the mid-1920s, 1920, p. 123. tember 2L 1982, nomy from the March 1917 period to Jews and Ukrainians were caught up in 27. Ibid., pp. 13-14. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY FEBRUARY 20, 1983 No. і

News and views ubainianWeeld ^'Moscow-centered'' news reporting UNA'S 89th distorts picture of Soviet dissent On February 22, the Ukrainian National Association will mark nearly nine decades of service to its members, the Ukrainian community and Ukraine. Since its founding in Shamokin, Pa., on NEW YORK - Alexander Motyl broken up by Soviet authorities in and Adrian Karatnycky, writing in the Uzbekistan," they wrote, "Tlie publish­ February 22, 1894, by four Greek Catholic priests from western February 18 issue of the National ing operation succeeded in disseminat­ Ukraine, among them the Rev. Hryhory Hrushka, founder and first Review, said that a "Moscow-centered" ing thousands of copies of a pamphlet, editor of Svoboda, the UNA has grown to become a vital force in and "celebrity-oriented" view of Soviet 'Our Islamic Faith/ " Ukrainian community life in the United States and Canada. In the dissent by the American media has In addition to restive nationalities, process, it has compiled a record of service of which we can ail be created the erroneous perception that the authors also note that the Soviets proud. the dissident movement in the USSR is must cope with "large-scale dissident in its 89-year history, the UNA has touched virtually every aspect of virtually dead. religious m-ovements." organized community endeavor, providing financial and moral In the lengthy article, titled "All Quiet assistance lo a wealth of cultural, religious, social and patriotic on the Pro-Western Front?,"theauthors Socialist opposition activities. In addition, the UNA expanded its fraternal benefit argue that to accurately grasp the true range of Soviet dissent "requires look­ Another branch of Soviet dissent, functions to better address the ever-changing needs of its m.embers, the ing beyond Moscow, to the outlying, and one the authors say is perhaps least backbone of the organization. primarily non-Russian, regions of the known in the West, is the socialist If this sounds too much like weVe blowing our own horn, so be it. country" opposition^ for years associated with But the bottom-line of all UNA activists is service and we are — In citing three broad and, in their Marxist historian Roy Medvedev, who justifiably, we feel — proud of this important tradition. Besides, when view, underpublicized strands of Soviet the authors say is iiot the "most repre­ one turns a sprightly 89, allowances may be made for a touch of self- dissent — nationalism in the non- sentative of this current." congratulation. Russian republics, a small but vocal "A prominent socialist tendency is In serving the community at large and the Ukrainian cause, the dissident socialist opposition and a seen in the samizdat journal Poiski UNA continues to provide its members with low-cost insurance, loans disgruntled labor class — Messrs. (Searches), whose topics have ranged апчі mortgages. It also organizes eamps, courses and various Motyl and Karatnycky note that the from religion to ethics to Eurocommu­ workshops for youth at its Soyuzivka resort, as well as cultural activities of these groups are, under­ nism," Messrs. Motyl and Karatnycky standably, concentrated outside the write, adding that Raisa Lert, a co- activities for all Ukrainians. In addition to The Ukrainian Weekly, country's capital and, therefore, out of founder of the journal, is a Marxist Svoboda, Veselka and the annual UNA Almanac, the UNA, through eyeshot of the Western press. dissident who broke with Mr. Medvedev its Svoboda Press, publishes valuable books to keep Ukrainians of all Of the three strands adduced, the over his attacks on human rights. generations informed about events and issues concerning their authors believe that "national move­ "While not associated with Poiski, national heritage. It also remains in the forefront in the community's ments opposing Russification and the unknown and currently incarce­ support for the Ukrainian liberation struggle. supporting independence or autonomy rated Ukrainian Marxist dissident As the UNA embodies a tradition of service, it also embodies a for their states" pose the greatest threat Yuriy Badzio has probably made the tradition of progress. Since the continued growth and vitality of the in the eyes of Soviet authorities. most important recent contribution to community naturally depends on young people, Ukrainian youths "Nearly three-fourths of all known the theoretical development of a Ukrai­ remain a top priority on the UNA agenda. This year, the UNA political prisoners in the USSR are non- nian brand of Eurocommunism," write the authors. Mr. Badzio, who in a letter scholarship program awarded a record S48,000 in stipends to Russians, and among these the Ukrai­ nians and Lithuanians predominate, to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet deserving Ukrainian students of all backgrounds around the country although these two areas constitute only of the USSR said that his philosophy is and in Canada. Also in the realm of scholarship, the UNA, in 17 percent of the total population of the based on 'ideological, cultural and conjunction with the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, is Soviet Union," they wrote. political pluralism," is currently serving bankrolling the publication of a book by Prof. Robert Conquest on As an example of the power of a iabor-camp term, the authors said. the Great Ukrainian Famine of 1933 as part of the commemoration of national awareness in Ukraine, the They also said that a small group of the 50th anniversary of this national tragedy. authors noted that the funeral in 1979 of leftists in Leningrad who were supress- Moreover, the UNA is continuing its support of needy Ukrainians in Ukrainian composer Volodymyr Iva- ed by authorities in 1979, published a strife-torn Poland, a project undertaken last year. siuk, found murdered and mutilated journal which included the writings of In the area of the struggle for national" and human-rights in Ukraine, under mysterious circumstances, turned such non-Soviet thinkers as Herbert the UNA continues to keep the community and Western governments into "a huge manifestation of Ukrai­ Marcuse and Santiago Carillo. informed of the situation through the pages of this newspaper and nian national consciousness" as thou­ But as the authors see it, an even sands of Ukrainians, including Ukrai­ greater potential danger to the regime is Svoboda, and through direct intervention with government officials. nian Helsinki Group members Petro On the domestic front, the UNA last year sponsored a Media Action the Soviet working class. Over the last and Vasyl Sichko, turned out to honor several years they report that a number Workshop as part of its efforts to correct misinformation about the slain musician. Ukrainians and Ukraine in the Library of Congress and the U.S. of large strikes, particularly in Ukraine, "There are clear indications that the and the attempted formation of inde­ Census Bureau. national movements are radicalizing," pendent trade unions, indicate a high With an eye towards the future, the UNA is currently engaged in wrote the authors. "Again Ukraine level of worker discontent. talks regarding the merger of the UNA and the Ukrainian Fraternal provides an eloquent example. Recent­ Association for the mutual benefit of both organizations, its members ly, the Ukrainian Patriotic Movement, "Here, too, the Moscow-periphery and the Ukrainian community. a new opposition group, issued its first dichotomy applies in that the vast The UNA today, then, remains an independent, non-partisan public statement — a sweeping indict­ majority of known strikes in the USSR fraternal-benefit society at the heart of Ukrainian life in the diaspora, a ment of Soviet society in all its spheres have taken place in outlying regions, that emphasized the illegitimacy of the which receive less attention than the vibrant enterprise with a long and proud legacy. Not bad for an 89- Soviet Ukrainian government and, by central regions from the USSR's econo­ year-oid ''batko.'' logical extension, of the Soviet state." mic planners and are, therefore, more Messrs. Motyl and Karatnycky quot­ prone to shortages and other economic ed the document as calling for the problems," the article said. Kureiek Lectures scheduled secession of Ukraine from the USSR, Although free trade unions like the and referring to the USSRasa "military- Free Trade Unions of Workers in the TORONTO - The Ukrainian Pro­ speak on two evenings, March 8 and 9. police state with wide-ranging imperia­ Soviet Union and SMOT (the Free fessional and Business Club of Toronto, On Tuesday, March 8, he will speak list intentions" that has been imple­ Interprofessional Association of the University of Toronto and the on "The Great Famine: The Collectivi­ menting a "policy of national genocide" Workers have been repressed, the university's Chair of Ukrainian Studies zation Terror as History" at 8 p.m. at in Ukraine. authors say that the KGB has been Foundation will present three William the Sir Sandford Fleming Building. ''Undoubtedly influenced by the unable to totally eradicate the workers' Kureiek Memorial Lectures in March. On the second night, Wednesday, Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the movement. Ukrainian patriots also argue that an In their conclusion, the authors note The first lecture, scheduled for Mon­ March 9, he will speak on "The Great Famine: The Ukrainian Question and independent and free Ukraine, based on that the rapid rise of Yuri Andropov, day, March 7, at 8 p.m., will feature Jim the Nature of Stalinist Motivation,''at8 democratic principles, could be a gua­ former head of the KGB, suggests that Coutts, former advisor to Lester B. p.m. at the Medical Sciences Audito­ rantee of peace and stability through­ Soviet authorities fear the emergence of Pearson and Pierre Elliott Trudeau. He rium, University of Toronto, King's out the world," the authors said. opposition groups, particularly in an will speak on "'Canada: Decade of College Circle. But the USSR's nationalities issues era of projected economic decline. Change," at the Sir Sandford Fleming The William Kureiek Memorial Lec­ are by no means limited to its European "Will the leaders succeed in crushing Building, Room 1105, University of republics^ A rapid increase in the non- dissent?" the authors ask. "As long as Toronto, King's College Road. tures were established in honor of the late William Kureiek, a distinguished Russian population in Central Asia and the nationalities are denied their aspira­ The second speaker will be Robert Ukrainian Canadian artist. the resurgence of Islam may, in the tions, the intelligentsia lack intellectual Conquest, senior research fellow and These annual lectures were named authors' view, "become a serious pro­ freedom, working and living conditions scholar-curator of the Russian and East after Mr. Kureiek to acknowledge the blem for the Kremlin." remain poor for most workers, and European Collection of the Hoover contribution he made to Canada and to "According to recent reports in the Baptists, Catholics, Jews and Moslems institution on War, Revolution and keep alive the memory of a great artist Soviet press, a large-scale, illegal are denied religious freedom — the Peace at Stanford University. He will and remarkable human being. Moslem publishing effort has been dissidents will always be there." No.! THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY FEBRUARY 20, 1983 Book review THE GREAT FAMINE Grigorenko's memoirs: recalling the long road to dissent "Memoirs," by Petro G. Grigorenko. Translated by Thomas P. Whitney. New York: W, W. Norton and Co, Inc., 1982, 462 pp. by George B. Zarycky of the Komsomol. In the early 1930s, he entered the The recently published "Memoirs" of Petro Military Engineering Academy, where he studied Grigorenko, a career Red Army officer and the only construction supervision. Soviet general ever to be exiled to the West, are both While there, he was summoned to his home village frustrating and compelling. On one level, they are by news of his father's illness. On the train from disconcertingly short on the kind of reflective analysis Leningrad, he noticed tattered groups of emaciated one might except from a man who spent nearly 60 peasants, apparently starving, when the train crossed This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of years in purblind devotion to the Soviet cause and the frontier into his native Ukraine. It was 1933, the the harshest and cruelest tragedies of the who, in the end, was rewarded for his loyalty by being year of the Great Famine masterminded by Stalin to Ukrainian people, the Great Famine of 1932-33, shunted off to a lunatic asylum by a regime intolerant crush the resistance of the Ukrainian peasantry. It was This column, which appears for the first time of any tergiversations. The general's long and often to cost a staggering 7 million innocent lives. this week, hopes to shed some light on the moving account of his personal odyssey from fervent Unable to believe that the mass hunger in Borisovka development of events as reported to the Stalinist to a champion of human rights contains no was anything more than a localized anomaly. Gen. Ukrainian community in the United States. discernable sense of Zeitgeist and little introspection. Grigorenko wrote the Central Committee. The Svoboda, the Ukrainian-language daily news­ With the exception of a touching and reverential authorities responded that the food shortage was the paper which was almost 40years old then, carried description of his visit with dissident novelist result of "a faulty organization of grain procurement" any news it could get about Soviet grain procure­ Alexander Solzhenitsyn, there are few of those by the local administration, promised to rectify the ments and the subsequent famine. revealing vignettes that often serve to personalize and situation and punish those responsible. Borisovka In the 1983 New Year appeal of the Ukrainian illuminate a writer's experiences. began receiving foodstuffs. It wasn't until after the National Association's Supreme Executive But Gen. Grigorenko himself provides a reason for 20th Communist Party Congress in 1956 that the Committee, it is stated: "In the years 1932, 1933 this apparent lack of self-examination, one that author says he "learned how the peasantry's resistance and 1934, issues of Svoboda provide perhaps the cogently elucidates a central paradox of his life and the to the collective farms had been broken with the help best documentation of the horrors of the Great nature of the system he served so faithfully for so long. of a man-made famine." Famine and unmask the organizers and exe­ Writing about his failure to recognize the govern­ After training as a. military construction engineer. cutors of this holocaust. Further, the need to ment's role in the man-made famine in Ukraine in Gen. Grigorenko was sent to Byelorussia where, inform the American public and the press about 1933, he notes: "In short, the Good Lord had not instead of building, he was put in charge of dynamiting the tragedies in 1933 Ukraine was one of the endowed Ш-Є with too great a talent for profound churches, including the historic church in Vitebsk, as main reasons for the establishment of The analysis, and by this token he saved me from perishing well as churches in Minsk and Smolensk. He admits that Ukrainian Weekly.'' early." at first he "admired (his) handiwork," but eventually Relying on news from both Svoboda and The Here is a man who rose to the upper echelons of the found his task "abhorrent" and refused to do it. He Ukrainian Weekly, this column hopes to remind Soviet power structure not because of demonstrated was then assigned to help build an 800-mile line of and inform Americans and Canadians of this analytical skills but precisely because of his steadfast fortifications along the country's western border, terrible crime against humanity. refusal to probe below the surface of things. More­ fortifications that were ordered demolished by Stalin By bringing other events worldwide into the over, his very survival depended on keeping his on the eve of the Nazi invasion. picture as well, the column hopes to give a intellectual blinkers firmly in place. It is exactly this Gen. Grigorenko managed to survive the great perspective on the state of the world in the years which makes his eventual apostasy — and this book purges of the mid-1930s through a combination of 1932-33, - all the more meaningful and inspiring. Not only did luck and naivete. As the officer ranks around him were he have to do battle with the state, but with his own being depleted with daily arrests of soK^alled "enemies On February 6, 1932, Svoboda ran an article ideological solipsism, as well. of the people," he writes that he was firmly convinced on its front page titled "Ukraine cannot meet For Gen. Grigorenko, the path to the promise of that "there was a fifth column in the country." His Moscow's quota for grain harvest." This was the Marxism began in the tiny eastern Ukrainian village of devotion to Stalin remained ironclad. first news on the pages of the Ukrainian- Borisovka, where he was born in 1907 to a poor His first inkling that the mass arrests and execu­ language daily that showed something was amiss peasant family. It was there that, at age 11, he tions might be unjustifed came when a colleague in the country - once known as the breadbasket witnessed the massacre of innocent villagers, including confided that in his experiences "he had not met one of Europe - that was the homeland of so many his history teacher, by a contingent of the anti- guilty person - except for those conducting the Ukrainians living in the United States.. Communist White Guard. This episode, coupled with interrogations." Sometime later, while studying at the Meanwhile in the United States in February the rabid anti-Semitism of the Whites, helped arouse General Staff in Moscow, Gen. Grigorenko was peфlexed 1932, William Green, president of the in him a nascent aversion to injustice. When he when his brother Ivan came to see him and reported American Federation of Labor spoke out describes coming to the aid of a neighborhood Jewish that back in Ukraine countless innocent people were against the high rate of unemployment. boy being attacked by a youthful mob (only to be being brutalized, tortured and forced to confess to Japan sent an entire division (11,000 men) of beaten himself), one can sense the feeling of deep imaginary crimes. troops to China as it conUnued its invasion of moral indignation that was to emerge, albeit much As with the famine. Gen. Grigorenko was convinced Manchuria. However, newspapers reported that later, when he became a standard-bearer of the that local abuses were the cause and, in his naivete, he the Chinese were finally gaining victories in fledghng human-rights movement in the early 1960s. complained to the chief prosecutor. It was not until several important land areas. The year saw Gen. Grigorenko's village was decidedly pro-Soviet. years later that he found out that because of his Manchuria, under the aegis of Japan, establish As to the struggle for Ukrainian statehood that was protests his head also was on the chopping block. He 'Manchukuo, a nominally independent state raging at the time, he writes: "People in our village and was saved, it seems, by the ascension of Lavrenti Beria Great Britain announced that as of March 1, those around us knew little about the struggle for to head of the KGB, who, in a move to discredit his free trade would be supplanted with protective Ukrainian independence or about the Ukrainian predecessor, left Gen. Grigorenko alone. Two of the tariffs. This was in response to the country's nationalist movement. We did not receive informa­ officials who were to have Gen. Grigorenko shot were financial crisis of 1931, which resulted from the tion from the Ukrainian Rada." themselves executed. worldwide economic crisis. King George V After two villagers who had been imprisoned by the In 1939, Gen. Grigorenko was assigned to the Far asked Ramsey Mac Donald to head a coalifion forces of Symon Petliura returned home with stories East, where the Soviets were engaged in a small-scale government which took the country off the gold of torture (the author does not say who these men war with Japan. Because the officer ranks had been standard and ceased the repayment of war debts were or why they were imprisoned), indifference turned decimated during StaHn's purges, the situation of the as well. to hostility, particularly when fueled by Soviet propa­ command was chaotic. It is here that the author first Arab leaders prepared a project for the ganda. "This hostility intensified when Petliura's name met and served under Gen. Georgi Zhukhov (later to division of Palestine into two autonomous became associated with White Poland," according to be touted as a much-decorated war hero), whom he provinces, Arab and Jewish. Gen. Grigorenko. "The expedition of Yuriy Tiutiun- describes as a dim-witted martinet whose outdated nyk was viewed as a bandit attack." tactical philosophy was identical to one that led to the Also in February, Svoboda, the soon-to-be But with the advent of Ukrainianization and the debacle of the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. 40-year-old newspaper of the Ukrainian com­ establishment of a chapter in his village of Prosvita (a It was during the opening days of the war with Nazi munity in America, ran news about the lack of Ukrainian cultural organization) by a local history Germany that Gen, Grigorenko himself would first grain reserves in the Soviet Union. According to teacher. Gen. Grigorenko became aware of his experience the consequences of criticizing Stalin's the story, Ukraine had met only 75 percent of its national heritage. "From them I learned of'Kobzar,'" leadership. After he told a subordinate, Lt. Col. harvest quota. Svoboda quoted Pravda, the writes Gen. Grigorenko. "And from them I learned Andrei Olienkov, that the Supreme Command had Soviet Comntunist Party newspaper, as report­ that I belonged to the same nationality as the great erred in allowing the Soviet Air Force to be destroyed ing that the collective farms were keeping much Shevchenko, that I was Ukrainian." so early in the conflict, he was investigated and of the grain for their own needs, and not Predisposed to Communist ideology and unfamiliar reprimanded for doubting the wisdom of Stalin. He delivering it to the state. It mentioned that city with the intricacies of the Ukrainian liberation denied the charge, and then offered a mild recantation. It is an eye-opening experience: "I remembered my governments were incapable of doing anything struggle, Gen. Grigorenko became a memberof the about this situation. At a raion meeting, a Mr. Komsomol, the Communist youth league, and attend­ conversation with Olienkov on the first day of the war. Perhaps, in fact, it represented the point at which I Yemets, the meeting chairman, mentioned that ed technical school. Moved by Stalin's writings on "it is time for Ukraine to stop harvesting its Lenin, he became an ardent Stalinist. While working a turned from my youthful dream about a bright Communist future." grain, for the 75 percent which can be harvested variety of manual jobs, he became a Komsomol has already been delivered." 'The Pravda story organizer and activist. Endowed with indisputable But the turn was not yet an about face. During the also blamed the grain shortage on the horr I proletarian credentials, he joined the Communist war Gen. Grigorenko served with distinction and was (Continued on page Щ Party and became a member of the Central Committee (Continued on page 12) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY FEBRUARY 20, 1983 No. Ukrainian hockey update '^ by Ihor N ^^^-"rnach

said the Ukrainian rookie. He has hander which earned Plett an eight- tion is one of those teams that hits a lot, Call him Mr. Versatile scored 14 goals, three of them on the game suspension. or holds a lot or interferes constantly." power play. "I've always been aggressive, ever The Stastny brothers — Marian, Bruins' Krushelnyski: Bruin television piay-by-play man since bantam and midget hockey," Peter and Anton - are not the most Fred Cusick nominates Mike Krushel­ admits Stefan. If it's one of many things physical line in the NHL, but you won't jack-of-all-trades nyski, "The Reach,"for 1982-83 Rookie the Red Wings lack, it's aggressiveness. hear Bergeron complain about their of the Year in the NHL. And just Greg Stefan, currently back-up to an play. "The Stastnys may not hand out He hasn't scored back-to-back hat imagine how good he'll become in the also impressive Micalef, forms one-half that many bodychecks, but they take tricks or seven goals in three games, the future. of the beginning of a nucleus Detroit more than their share in a game," said way Barry Pederson has. He hasn't has been seemingly building for a Bergeron. "They're checked tightly and driven Wayne Gretzky to distraction Red Wings netminder decade. Now if they could only go out closely because they're always on the he way Ste/e Kasper has. He hasn't and get themselves some quality de-. puck. We keep track of how many і ven been close to spectacular. earns rave reviews fensemen, some centers, a few wingers... takeouts each player handles in each But the Boston Bruins are glad game and we know who is doing his job they've got Ukrainian Mike Krushelny­ Two years ago, Greg Stefan was the Losing first game and who isn't. Those players who are ski and see good things in the future for Detroit Red Wings' "other" young goal- not fancy stickhandlers or puck carriers their young center/winger. Every night tender worth keeping an eye on. Today, didn't depress Malarchuk have to play the body more. That's what he is one of the most important players it's hard to keep your eyes off the feisty we want to see." on the ice, by the simple fact of his 21-year-old Ukrainian rookie from For rookie Ukrainian goaltender versatility. He is possibly the most Brantford, Ont. Clint Malarchuk, his early season stint Who are the checkers for Quebec? deceptive player in the league. He is the Without question, Stefan was the with the Quebec Nordiques was both Names like Dale Hunter, Alain Cote man with the long reach and the burst of Wings' outstanding performer in the enjoyable and disappointing. After and Mario Marois come to mind. speed that gets him around defenders. early stages of the 1982-83 National winning his first two games after being Others such as Wilf Paiement should, "П1 bet you he has had more break­ Hockey League season. The Wings had called up from Fredericton, he sustained but they don't. aways than anyone on the team," said nine points through their first 16 games his first loss. Marian Stastny has really come into coach Gerry Cheevers. "It's his burst, - and Stefan was in net for all of them. Malarchuk was a little disappointed his own this season, and he is scoring his acceleration. Maybe becauseiie'ss^. -M^h^^A3''^:^Ll^9l^,^PPJ^^^ while by that 7-4 loss at home to the Boston with regularity. He seems to have tall (6 foot 3) he seems to be standing the club was 0-5 when he was watching JBruins, but he certainly was not de­ completely adjusted to the style of play still and then he pushes off and he's from the end of the bench. pressed. "I felt a little badly, both for in the NHL. That makes his goal gone. He is one of the key players on our Stefan arrived in training camp as no myself and for the team," said Malar­ scoring all the more impressive. Ber­ penalty-killing teams." better than the fourth man in the chuk, "but, on the other hand, I think geron has separated the Stastny brothers The reach? "The coaches are after me goaltending derby. But he was the best that was certainly my worst perfor­ on occasion, but never for very long. to use my reach," Krushelnyski said. the Wings had in the preseason and mance of the year, either in the AHL or "I've had a tendency to hook and stop earned a job as back-up to No. 1 man the NHL. Iguesslwasjustduetohavea "They are our best offensive line and skating, holding on for the ride, and it Gilles Gilbert. The Wings got off to a bad game and that was it. I know that if there was never any doubt about that," has cost me a couple of hooking penal­ slow start and then Gilbert was side­ I can keep the opposition under three said the Quebec coach. "They are the ties." It makes him look as if he's lined by a serious case of the rash. goals, we will usually win because we best offensive line in the NHL (a bit of a standing still. Stefan stepped forward — and played can score a lot." prejudiced opinion, sir), but that doesn't He seems ideally suited for penalty like a guy who plans to stay around a Malarchuk will impress you with his mean that I won't try different line killing. "1 enjoy that part of the game. I while. attitude and style in goal. In his first combinations at times if I feel it will help like to forecheck and pretend I'm going The Red Wings aren't going to score a start of the year, he beat Boston 3-2 on the team." to take a swing at the puck." That's lot of goals this season, so if they are the road after trailing 2-0 in the open­ Malarchuk talked a little about when he goes from speed zero to launch. going to stay in their games, it must be ing minutes of the game. Two days later, consistency in goal following his first The next thing an opponent kr ows, he's largely through defensive play and he helped the Nordiques to a 7-2 loss this year. Bergeron has often breaking in alone on the goalie. goaltending. Stefan gave them that triumph over the struggling New Jersey expressed the same desire in relation to "Teams get on the power play and early on. In the process, he gave them a Devils. the play of his team as a whole. they get a little casual," he said, ex­ spark with his aggressive manner in and Malarchuk led the AHL with a 1.98 ТІ1Є Nordiques remain one of the plaining the scoring chances he gets as a around the net. Not surprisingly, his goals-against average when the Nordi­ most inconsistent teams in the NHL, penalty kilier. "They're not as intense as hero is New York Islander goalie Billy ques called him up to replace Dan capable of beating the best on a given the penalty killers." Smith. Bouchard. Bouchard was sidelined with night, but also guilty of turning in a The former Junior Canadien has "In a couple of seasons he's going to a hairUne fracture of the index finger on mediocre performance the next game. been a defense-minded player, a rarity be one of the best in the league," said his right hand, and Malarchuk soon This analysis holds true for the first in the Quebec Junior A League. "When coach Nick Polano after another of established himself as the No. 1 net- weeks of the current campaign right I was playing Junior B, I was undecided Stefan's early season sharp perfor­ minder with Quebec, despite the efforts through the last few games. as to what I wanted to do," he said. "I mances, this one giving the Red Wings a of veteran John Garrett. Clint Malarchuk remained up with saw a lot of guys getting hurt in Junior 3-3 tie with the Islanders. Naturally, Malarchuk has only words of praise the parent club for six games before Major and I decided to bypass it and go Smith was in goal at the other end. for Garrett, and he certainly appre­ experiencing some severe growing pains |o the University of St. Louis. I stayed The Detroit club — the old adminis­ ciated the help Garrett has given him in and tough times. He was returned to three months and came back to Junior tration — selected Stefan as its fifth his adjustment to NHL play. Fredericton (AHL) for more seasoning Major because the college league was a choice, 128th overall, in the 1981 entry For a young goaltender, Malarchuk with special emphasis on improving the stick-and-hack league. It was all stick draft. The 5-11, 173-pounder (that's has a mature outlook on the game of speed of his glove hand. work." what the book says, but he looks hockey. "No one should ever blame The decision was a wise one, for three smaller) was the second keeper taken by themselves for a loss because hockey is a Yaremchuk: WHL's months later he was drafted by the the Wings in that particular draft. team game," he says. "I was not as Bruins in the sixth round. He was Corrado Micalef, who had just back- consistent in the loss to Boston as I player of the week returned to the Junior Canadiens for stopped the Cornwall Royals to the wanted to be. I didn't challenge the Being returned to junior hockey by an another season and his career turned to Memorial Cup championships, was shooters like I wanted to. I had a lot of NHL team often has a traumatic effect the defensive side of hockey. "In juniors tabbed by the Wings early in the third shots, but I won't blame my defense. on a youngster. they want the veteran players to play round (44th over all) as their second They make mistakes out there and so do defensively," he said, and I've always pick behind center Claude Loiselie. I. My job is to be ready when the But, it's not stopping Ken Yarem­ played that way." Micalef got most of the attention, but opposition has a good shot on goal. chuk of the Portland Winter Hawks Last year, after his second training the Detroit front office didn't try to Hockey is a game of mistakes and every from doing his thing in the Western camp as a Bruin, he felt "pretty close to camouflage its pleasure at getting goal is the result of an error by some­ Hockey League. Yaremchuk, a late cut making the team. The coaches, Jean Stefan. They figured he was a real gem one on the ice. Everyone has to be of the Chicago Black Hawks, returned Ratelle and Gary Doak, kept telling me, as the і28th selection. prepared." just in time to give the Winter Hawks' 'don't quit working.' And they told me Stefan spent most of his first pro The Nordiques have been giving up offense a terrific lift. they wanted more offensive production season in the American Hockey League far too many goals this year and they in his first six games back at Port­ from me." He went to the minors for the with Adirondack, getting the call to the will need more than Malarchuk's cool land, Yaremchuk collected four goals second time This season he made the NHL late in the season and appearing in attitude to stay near the top of the and 10 assists for 14 points, with 11 of team and has becpme an all-purpose two games. He didn't make much of an NHL's overall standings. Coach Michel them coming in three games to win the player. impression, but as bad as the Wings Bergeron talked about some of his 5-11, 180-pound center the nod as Cheevers put together a fourth line were, it would have been hard for team's weaknesses recently as his club WHL's Player of the Week. and there's Krushelnyski at center. anybody to make an impression. prepared for a western swing. Tlien Cheevers switches and comes up This season, beginning with the first "We have been letting the opposition Yaremchuk, an 18-year-old who ukh a different fourth line and there's days of training camp, it was different. take control in the opening moments of counted an impressive 58 goals and 157 Kmshelnyski at left wing. He has been a Stefan made an enormous impression. the game," he said. "We are not even scoring points last year with Portland to ctriter, a left winger, a face-off man, as Mostly it was with his work in goal, yet being checked that hard and we are still become the sixth NHL draft choice well as a penalty killer. Occasionally his roaming style and penchant for giving up the puck. Also, we are not overall by Chicago, has picked up where Cheevers ^ :es him on the power play. contact with opposing players also hitting enough and we're not aggressive he left off as the Winter Hawks went "He g^ : rnc a chance to play on the gained him some notoriety. He was on when we should be. It is as if we're undefeated in their first nine games. pome/ ,-:?y a:v1 that was a lot of fun," the receiving end of Willi Plett's two- thrown off our game when the opposi­ (Continued on page 13) No. і THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY FEBRUARY 20, 1983 Panorama of Ukrainian culture in the Big Apple bv Helen Perozak Smindak

As New York returns to its normal apply for aid you will be asked how you fanciers of Early American folk art, opera. In answer to the final question, pace after snowfall that brought the city spent your previous grant. And, he there was a fine array of antique Mr. Plishka responded: "During 'Boris' . to a virtual standstill last weekend, the adds, don't be deterred by the recent jewelry. The show will run through we hold an annual festival in the Big Apple's Ukrainian community announcement that New York State February 27 and can be seen from 1 to 6 corridor outside the dressing rooms — reminisces about its carnival season and proposes to reduce aid to cultural p.m. Tuesday to Sunday (477-2714). everyone brings some food, and we've looks ahead to upcoming cultural institutions by S4.5 million; this cut may 9 Three sculptures by Alexander enjoyed such delicacies as dandelion events. not affect ethnic groups. Archipenko, described by a gallery wine and reindeer meat." Although the annual Dumka Chorus spokesman as "magnificent" pieces, are dance planned for February 12 was The art scene on view at Forum Gallery, 1018 Madison snowed out (no one could get very far ^ Something new in Ukrainian circles Ave. (78th Street). Included in a group Dance news from home last Saturday night), the — an art exhibit consisting exclusively show of 13 sculptors, they may be debutante balls held each year by the of drawings — was held at the Ukrai­ viewed until February 26. Gallery hours ^ Rodgers A Hart's "On Your Toes," Chervona Kalyna Society and the nian Artists Association gallery from are 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday with dancer George de la Pena appear­ Ukrainian medical and engineers'asso­ February 6 to 13. The drawings, most of through Saturday. (772-7666) ing in a star role with Natalia Maka- ciations took place earlier as scheduled. them in India ink and a few in colored rova, Dina Merrill, George S. Irving Ten young ladies made their bow to crayon or pencil, were by three artists, and Christine Andreas, will begin society on January 29 at the Chervona two of whom are known for distinctive Operatic scores previews March 1 at the Virginia Theatre, 245 W. 42nd St. The music and dance Kalyna dance in the Hotel Roosevelt's styling in other media - Slava Gerulak 9 Bass-baritone Andrij Dobriansky, Grand Ballroom, and three debutantes sculpts ceramic figures, Lubo Hutsaliuk production will have its official opening who sang in the Metropolitan Opera on Sunday, March 6, and will offer were presented during the formal ball paints in oils, usually with a palette productions of "Parade" and "Boris held on February 5 at the elegant Pierre knife. Anatoli Hontcharenko of Yon- evening performances Tuesday through Godunov" earlier this season, is now Saturday and matinees on Wednesday Hotel on Fifth Avenue by the New York kers, N.Y., the third artist represented appearing in Cilea's "Adriana Lecouv- branches of the Ukrainian Medical in the show, prefers to work on draw­ and Sunday. reur." The production has been staged ^ Reviewing the New York City Association of North America and the ings only. Miss Gerulak's drawings by actor Raf Vallone. Ukrainian Engineers' Society. dealt with plant life and mythological Ballet's performance of Peter Martens' 9 Bass Paul Plishka, currently per­ "Suite from Historic de Soldat," The warming temperatures and bright subjects, while Mr. Hutsaliuk's pieces forming at the Met in Puccini's "La sunshine of Sunday, February 13, were mainly French and Italian land­ Jennifer Dunning of The New York Boheme," has been heard in several Times pointed out the "clarity, sweet­ brought pedestrians out on city streets, scapes. Mr. Hontcharenko concen­ radio broadcasts recently. During the encouraging the Ukrainian Institute of trated on realistic representations of ness and precise legwork" which cha­ WQXR broadcast of the season's final racterized Roma Sosenko's dancing. America to proceed with plans sche­ Caribbean scenes, boats and the pic­ performance of Modest Mussorgsky's duled for that afternoon — the Ukrai­ turesque Hutsul-style wood church in She also liked the carefree mood dis­ ^^^^orLsJGodwrov" on January 29, Mr. played by Miss Sosenko, Susan Gluck nian Composers Series concert honor­ Hunter, N.Y. At the opening^-arohttectr Plishka sang the role of the old monk ing composer Vasyl Barvinsky. IvanJZaja^-gaveTT'concise survey of and their partners as they wound Pimen (Mr. Dobriansky was heard as through Jacques d'Amboise's new ITie institute's spring calend-ar-pfe--' drawings from prehistoric to modern the police officer Nikitich). A taped mises a vaxi^tyof exciting events. times. ballet "Celebration." Miss Sosenko's recording of the Boston Symphony work has also found favor with the ^ Amongst he foremost is a February 26 ^ An exhibit and sale of Early Orchestra's presentation of Beethoven's program and reception marking the Times' dance critic Anna Kisselgoff, American folk art and accessories from "Fidelio" was aired by WQXR on who included the young ballerina in her 75th birthday of Valentina Pereyaslavec, the collection of painter/art dealer January 17, with Mr. Plishka as one of who has spent 57 years as a professional year-end review of the best in dance. Natalia Pohrebinska of Lexington, the five soloists. And on February 5, Miss Kisselgoff wrote that Miss So­ ballet dancer and teacher, 33 of those N.Y., is currently being held at the Mr. Plishka and singers Anna Moffo with the American Ballet Theatre's senko has been doing "exceptionally Mayana Gallery, 21 E. Seventh St. and Donald Gramm were interviewed good demi-soloist work." school. Among those invited is Lucia During the opening reception on during the intermission of the broad­ Chase, director of the American Ballet February 8, visitors admired Early cast of "Les Contes D' Hoffmann." The ^ Nusha Martynuk and Carter Mc- Theatre, ABT general manager Charles American patchwork quihs, weather- topics covered difficult costumes, when to Adams, recently with New York's Dillingham, dance critic Robert Larkin, vanes, carvings, kitchen accessories, start vocal studies, roles that gave the Nikolais Dance Company, premiered and Doris Hering, executive director of toys, baskets, crocks, a 19th century singers terrific enjoyment, favorite three new works at Trinity College in the National Association for Regional cooper eagle and an early 19th century death scenes, and the singers' activities Hartford, Conn., early this month. Miss Ballets, have promised to attend. Parti­ tin rooster. For those who are not while waiting to appear on stage in an Martynuk and her husband, well- cipants in the program, set for 5 p.m., known to New York City and Sovii- include Ostap Tarnawsky of Philadel­ zivka audiences, are now artists-in- phia, who will speak about Madame residence at Trinity. The new choreo­ Pereyaslavec's career, New York City graphy, along with "Some Enchanted Opera singer George Bohachevsky Evening" — a collaboration of theatre accompanied by pianist Daria Kara- and dance exploring games of monsters nowycz, and three former students of and dreams of danger — was well Madame Pereyaslavec — Oksana Bazy- received during performances on levsky, Roma Pry ma Bohachevsky and February 3 and 5 in the college'^ Basil Tershakovec. Goodwin Theatre. The recitals, with Next weekend also brings another music by Andre Gribou and lighting by major event elsewhere in Manhattan. Kevin Dreyer, were sponsored by Tri­ The origins of Kiev and the belief in its nity's Department of Theatre and continuing greatness will be portrayed Dance. in words and music at the Fashion ^ The ancient myth of the abduction Institute of Technology, 227 W. 27th St. of Persephone by Pluto, ruler of the "Troyanovi Dity" will be presented by underworld, and of her subsequent 60 performers of the Lydia Krushe!nyt- return to earth as the personification of ska Drama Studio on February 27 at 3 spring, was staged by George Balan- p.m. The title should be translated as chine, John Taras and Vera Zorina for Triplets, Mrs. Krushelnytska tells me, the New York City Ballet's 1982 Stra­ not as Trojan Children, since it refers to vinsky festival. The ballet was one of Kyi, Shcheckand Khoryv,the founders three works telecast on February 14 in of Kiev. Musical compositions are by Channel i3's Great Performances' Ihor Soneyytsky, choreography by Dance in America series. Olha Kowakhuk Iwaisiwka, decor by Adrian Kerod and lighting by Yurij Grechyio, Tucson cookbook offered Deadline in sight TUCSON, Ariz. - Toe Ukrainian American Society of Tucson has an­ Cultural organizations planning to nounced that copies of its "Favorite apply for grams from the New York Recipes'' cookbook may be ordered State Council on the Arts should note through the mail from: Bea Saly- that the application deadline for 1983 is won, 8102 E, Malvern St.. Tucson, March L This reminder comes from Ariz. 85710, Vasyl Soskk, administrative director of The cost of the cookbook is S5 plus Ukrainian Chorus Dumka of America ST50 postage and handling. Inc. Mr. Sosiak advises that financial The book was released by the Ukrai­ assistance be used as wisely as possible, nian American Society of Tucson to but used and not just put away "for a Paul Plishka, in the role of the monk, Pimen, in a scene from Mussorgsky's "Boris raise funds for costumes and boots for rainy day,'' because the next-time you Godunov" at the Metropolitan Opera. Robert Nagy as Shuisky, stands nearby. the local Ukrainian folk dancers. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY FEBRUARY 20, 1983 No. 8

State Representative. Myron Kulas Chicago read the Illinois congressional resolu­ Ukrainian Independence Day by Alex Poszewanyk tion of Ukrainian Independence Day. Gov. James Thompson's proclamation CHICAGO - Saturday, January 22, was read by Steve Babyk. An ecumeni­ New Jersey the 65th anniversary of Ukrainian cal moleben in Ss, Volodymyr and Olha independence was a cold and overcast Church concluded the ceremony. day in Chicago and wet snowflakes That evening, some 400 people gently swirled in the air. Before noon gathered for a banquet commemorating over 2,000 people had gathered in the Ukrainian Independence Day. Among plaza in front of Ss. Volodymyr and the participants were Bishop Innocent Olha Ukrainian Catholic Church. Stu­ Lotocky, Archbishop Constantine, dents of the Ukrainian Saturday schools Pastor Oleksa Harbuziuk, clergy of and members of Ukrainian veterans' various parishes, as well as representa­ organizations surrounded the Epiphany tives of many other Captive Nations. cross sculpted of ice, awaiting the Dr. Charkewycz greeted the as­ arrival of the day's special guest, sembled guests and introduced the Mayor Jane Byrne. master of ceremonies, Myron Kulas, At noon the ceremony began with an The keynote speech was delivered by ecumenical prayer. The U.S. and Ukrai­ Yaroslav Hayvas, a former cooperative nian flags were raised. Halia Lewun leader and a member of the Organiza­ sang the U.S. national anthem, and tion of Ukrainian Nationalists, Gen, everyone, from the youngest school- John Singlaub, who was honored on child to the oldest veteran, joined in this occasion as Man of the Year, spoke singing the Ukrainian hymn. Stepan to the assembly. Gen. Singlaub stressed Goiash recited excerpts from the Fourth that detente and the attainment of Universal transporting the participants, disarmament and a lasting peace with in spirit, to the day 65 years ago when it the Soviet Union would be difficult or was first read. impossible to achieve, since commu­ Mayor Byrne read the proclamation nism is, by its nature, a state of con­ designating January 22 as Ukrainian tinuing revolution until all the peoples Independence Day in Chicago. She of the world are conquered. The general praised the Ukrainian church and voiced his support of the liberation of community leaders and the Ukrainian all captive nations. people for their great contribution to The Chicago UCCA branch honored the growth and cultural enrichment of three Ukrainian community leaders for Gov. Thomas Kean signs New Jersey's Ukrainian Independence Day proclamation on Chicago, and their work in the pre­ their service to the community: Roman Thursday, January 20, in Trenton. Gov. Kean also delivered a speech on this occasion to servation of their neighborhood. On Kobleckyj, Maria Yusefowycz and Ms. members of the Ukrainian community, who later presented him with gifts of Ukrainian folk this occasion she presented Dr. Myro- Stroczynskyj. Violinist Eugene Grato- art. The ceremony was coordinated by Andrew Keybida of Maplewood, who is pictured at slaw Charkewycz, chairman of the vich, accompanied by his wife at the right. Mr. Keybida is on the governor's Ethnic Advisory Council. UCCA branch in Chicago, with the piano, performed "Dumka," 'Fantasia," Resolution of the City Council of and "Czardasz." January 18, officially designating the The state's Attorney, Richard J. which Jaroslaw Bendz, the director of Ukrainian neighborhood as Ukrainian Daley Jr., paid a surprise visit to the Binghamton, N.Y. the dance group, had prepared with Village. The mayor was accompanied banquet. As he was leaving the hall, Mr. them for their City Hall debut. In by Alderman Edward Vrdolyak, who Kulas noted that Mr. Daley is also a by Mima Zobniw conclusion, Lubomyr M. Zobniw, had introduced this resolution at the candidate for Chicago mayor. chairman of the local UCCA branch, City Council meeting on the mayor's The banquet ended with the singing BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - As every presented the mayor with a Ukrainian behalf. of the Ukrainian national anthem. year, the commemoration of January 22 Easter egg inscribed with the words - Ukrainian Independence Day — in "Ukrainian Independence Day—1983." Binghamton and Johnson City was held The egg had been skillfully "written" by Ansonia, Conn. with the support and attendance of the Eugene Czebiniak. combined Ukrainian community com­ The flag-raising and program at prised of the members of the two area Binghamton City Hall was covered by Ukrainian parishes, and ably coordi­ both local newspapers, and four televi­ nated by the local Binghamton branch sion stations carried portions of the of the Ukrainian Congress Committee ceremony during their news broadcasts. of America. An anniversary banquet and concert This year the annual flag-raising were held at St. John's Ukrainian ceremonies were held on January 20. In Orthodox Memorial Center on Janaury Johnson City, the flag was raised and 22. In the Binghamton area, there were Ukrainian Independence Day pro­ 11 veterans who had witnessed the claimed by village Trustee Tom Kar- events of the original January 22; at the pinko, a fellow Ukrainian. At Bing­ beginning of the banquet, the two hamton City Hall, the flag raising was remaining veterans of that day, Ivan preceded by prayers offered by the Rt. Moroz and Ivan Smyk, were honored. Rev. Frank Lawryk of St. John's The head table included the pastors Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the of the two area Ukrainian churches, Rev. Marian Struc, pastor of Sacred mayors of the surrounding communi­ Heart Ukrainian Catholic Church. ties, or their representatives, and the Immediately following the flag keynote speaker. Prof. Nicholas Mayor James J. Finnucan of Ansonia, Conn., signs the Ukrainian Independence raising, a short program was held for Chirovsky, who spoke of the resilience Day Proclamation in the presence of a Ukrainian delegation. the media and the 50-plus persons of the Ukrainian people and the com­ attending. The program had been mon thread that runs through Ukrai­ by Frank Stuban A dinner-dance was held that even­ planned by the Binghamton UCCA nian history; the desire for freedom. ing from 7 p.m. until 1 a.m. at the branch in order to brief the media about During the concert, St. John's U- ANSONIA, Conn. - The 65th anni­ Rapp's Paradise Inn in Ansonia. Some Ukraine, its people and its current krainian Orthodox Church Choir, versary of Ukraine's independence was 100 local Ukrainian American families situation, as well as present an eye­ under the direction of the Rt. Rev, marked in Ansonia with the signing of attended the event. The keynote address catching, though small, sample of Lawryk, performed a medley of Ukrai­ the Ukrainian Independence Day Pro­ was delivered by Bishop Basil Losten of Ukrainian culture. nian songs, and the Sacred Heart clamation by Mayor James J. Finnucan Stamford, Conn. Other principal After a gracious welcome from Bing­ Ukrainian Dancers regaled the audience on Saturday, January 22, in the mayor's speakers were Judge Stephen Zuraw hamton Mayor Juanita M. Crabb, the with their lively dancing. Ewhen office. and Mayor Finnucan. proclamation of Ukrainian Indepen­ Kurylo, a well-known Ukrainian actor, After the introduction of the guests recited several well-chosen poems and Over 30 representatives of the Valley's and excellent speeches, the bishop, dence Day was read for the benefit of Ukrainian community and several local the media by the mayor. The main part served as master of ceremonies. and state officials witnessed the signing along with other clergymen, led the of the program consisted of a statement In closing, Mr. Zobniw, thanked the of the proclamation and gathered for public in singing "God Bless America" on the significance of Ukrainian In­ many people who had worked on the the raising of the American and Ukrai­ and the Ukrainian national anthem, dependence Day, as well as a brief Ukrainian Independence Day comme­ nian tlags in front ot the Ansonia City "Shche ne vmerla Ukraina." Prayers background presentation about U- moration in Binghamton, especially the Hall. were recited in both languages. kraine. members of the executive committee of The committee for the event included Four members of the Sacred Heart the Binghamton UCCA: John Baranyk, Following the ceremonies, a recep­ Mary Wantroba, Mary Hylwa, Mrs. Ukrainian Catholic Church Ukrainian Wasyl Hirnyj, Wasyl Ivanonko, Mr. tion was held in the mayor's chamber Edwin Odoy, Marilyn Michel, Mrs, Dance Group, Mirek Galecki, Peter Kurylo, Walter Melnychenko and Mr. under the sponsorship of the Holy Richard Koalchic, Ann Colowitch, Holy, Marta Kit and Zoriana Zobniw, Moroz, as well as the hosts of the Name Society of Ss. Peter and Paul Stephen Zuraw, Paul Halushak, John performed a series of Ukrainian dances, evening; the Rev. and Mrs. Lawryk. Church of Ansonia. Colowitch and Frank Stuban, chairman. No. і THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY FEBRUARY 20, 1983 Ukrainian Independence Day Florida Union County, NJ.

Florida Ukrainians present a gift of pysanky to the state of Florida. As Bohdan Bemko (at microphone) announces the presentation, Phiiiip Werndii, director of the state's Division of Cultural Affairs, and Legislator Patricia Bailey accept the gift. Slava Czich and John Kohut look on.

by Mary Andreyko former UN A supreme president, and his wife Mary, Helen B. Olek, UNA su­ TALLAHASSEE, Fia. - At dawn, preme advisor, Walter Scott and Ann on Friday, January 21, a busload of Petrow. Ukrainians left St. Petersburg to make a Upon arrival at the Capitol,a large Myron Pinkowsky of the Ukrainian Congress Committee presents the Ukrainian flag to six-hour trip to Tallahassee, the capital committee of state officeholders and Freeholder Walter E. Boright. At right.Natalka Rybak shows some items that are on exhibit at of Florida. Mission: to observe the their staffs greeted the travelers warmly. the Ukrainian cultural display in the rotunda of the Union County Courthouse. Mr. Boright had 65th anniversary of Ukraine's indepen­ Among them were: Patricia Bailey, announced the creation of a special advisory committee on Ukrainian Independence. dence and to post the Ukrainian blue- state legislator from the St. Petersburg and-yellow flag in the Rotunda of the district, who made the trip even though State Capitol. the Legislature was not in session, and then commenced. Featured artist was The travelers represented Ukrainians Phillip A. Werndli, director of the Cleveland My kola Fabryka, emigre from Ukraine, from Clearwater, Tampa, Brandon, Division of Cultural Affairs of Florida, by G. Linchewsky an operatic baritone who performed Pinellas Park, New Port Richey and St. who represented George Firestone, seldom-heard works by Lysenko, Petersburg. Florida's secretary of state. Mr. Werndli CLEVELAND - The Ukrainian Dankevych and others, many based Among vacationers who joined this read the proclartiation signed by Mr. community in greater Cleveland, under upon the poems of Taras Shevchenko. group of residents were Joseph Lesawyer, (Continued on page 15) the aegis of the United Ukrainian His wife Irena, accompanied him on the Organizations (UUO), an affiliate of the piano. UCCA, gathered together on Sunday The next artist on the program afternoon, January 30, to commemo­ performed works of his own composi­ Delaware County, Pa. rate the 65th anniversary of the procla­ tion. Richard Mason, a medical student mation of the Ukrainian National in Cleveland, and composer of a new Republic and the 64th anniversary of opera for the millennium of Ukraine's the Act of Union. Christianity, based upon a new and After introductory remarks by Dr. unusual interpretation of the story of Bohdan Futey, president of the UUO, Ukraine's baptism, performed two Ukrainian veterans' groups ceremo­ preludes from his opera. Writing in nially presented colors, and the pro­ conjunction with Prof. George Lin­ clamations and greetings of the cities of chewsky as librettist, Mr. Mason has Cleveland and Parma, as well as of researched the history of St. Volodymyr newly inaugurated Ohio Gov. Richard in Rome and elsewhere. Celeste were delivered by Cleveland llie sixth-grade pupils of the local Councilman John Zayac. Prof. Vasyl School of Ukrainian Studies in Parma Ivanchuk, director of a local Ukrainian under the direction of Mrs. Kost per­ school, delivered an address on the formed a charming sketch on the theme significance of the day being comme­ of the Ukrainian Independence Day. morated. Local television and news organiza­ The musical section of the program tions covered the event. Rhode Island

William J. Fastus:gek, general chairman of the Delaware County Committee fo Jftie Commemoration of the 65th Anniversary of Ukrainian Kndependencetholdsfte Chester Ukrainian Independence Day Proclamation issued fey Mayor Josepftle Battle (center). Also in the photo are Michael Kowalchuk, president of the l|^i UCCA, and Christine Long. by William J. Pastuszek Maria Hud Bida then introducecfee commemoration committee's gerSal CHESTER, Pa. - Ceremonies^com- chairman and master of ceremoi ^S, memorating the 65th anniversary of the William J. Pastuszek. Ukrainian Independence Day in Rhode Island's capital, Providence,was sponsored by the independence of Ukraine were held Mr. F^stuszek extended a welconBto Rhode Island Heritage Commission and its Ukrainian subcommittee with approximately two Monday morning, January 24, at the all present and spoke in English оіщіе dozen representatives of the Ukrainian community present. The ceremony was attended by Old Chester Pennsylvania Court House, significance of this celebration mar! ^g the Rt. Rev. John Mowatt and the Rev. Myron Oryhon of the Catholic and Orthodox parishes, the oldest public building in the United the 65th anniversary of Ukraii respectively. A moving proclamation was read by Gov. J. Joseph Garrahy, who bereaved the States in continous use since 1724. independence as well as on the toss of millions of Ukrainians during the Great Famine of 1933 and gave high praise for the The ceremony began with invoca­ Great Famine in Ukraine. Ukrainian community's contribution to the development of the State of Rhode Island and tions in English and Ukrainian by the The hostess, Mrs. Richard Toan^ Providence Plantations. After the ceremony, a reception was held in the governor's luxurious Rev. Paul I^niw of the Holy Ghost custodial guide of the Old Che chambers in the State House. Ukrainian Catholic Church in Chester. (Continued on page 14) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY FEBRUARY 20, 1983 No. I

released Gen. Grigorenko oil April 15, 1965, after a immediately after they were formed. The Ukrainian Grigorenko's... military collegium annuled his compulsory treatment. group's temporary headquarters was attacked by (Continued from page 7) Once free. Gen. Grigorenko resumed his quest to, as stone-throwing hooligans. The groups were viciously wounded several times. "Ideologically I remained a he puts it, outlive the communism inside himself. smeared in the press. Eventually, Messrs. Lukianenko, Stalinist, and even if I had some individual doubts, the Unable to resume work in the military, he found work Tykhy and Rudenko were arrested, as were members cult of the leader was something in which I partook." as a custodian and night watchman. By 1966, the year Vasyl Ovsienko, Petro and Vasyl Sichko, Petro After the war, Gen. Grigorenko had a choice of the Daniel-Sinyavsky trial, he made friends with Rozumny, Yuriy Lytvyn and others. With a touch of between active command or a teaching position at the men and women, mostly far younger than himself, bitterness, the author writes that the Western Frunze Military Academy. His choice of the latter who formed the vanguard of a growing human-rights governments that signed the Helsinki document were, post, which he was to hold for 16 years, he attributed movement in the USSR, among them Vladimir in essence, "no more than sidehne observers of this to providential intervention. Had he chosen the Bukovsky, Alexander Ginzburg and Ukrainians historic struggle." military command, he would have been forced to fight Vyacheslav Chornovil and Nadia Svitlychna. against the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). Had he As a Ukrainian, he was particularly drawn to the On November 30, 1977, Gen. Grigorenko, his wife taken the command. Gen. Grigorenko writes, he Ukrainian dissidents and their struggle. In a lengthy and their retarded son left Ше Soviet Union for the would certainly have felt duty-bound to carry out passage, he describes the history of the Ukrainian United States, where he was scheduled to undergo orders and wage war against his fellow Ukrainians. nation from the early days of Kievan Rus', to the wars surgery. The fact that their visa request was handled so While at the academy, he decided not to live in of liberation in the 1920s and during World War II. In quickly put Gen. Grigorenko on his guard. "We knew special military housing, choosing instead to reside addition, he took up the cause of the Crimean Tatars, such speed must be significant," he writes. "In all among ordinary Muscovites, many of whom became who were banished to Central Asia by Stalin and who likelihood they were planning not to let us back in the his close friends. Two of them — Vasily Teslya and were not allowed to return to their ancestral home­ country." He was right, of course. On February 13, Mitya Chernenko — were to be catalysts in helping land. He wrote many articles for the samizdat and 1978, he was stripped, in absentia, of his Soviet him take a long and critical look at his commitment to met with Solzhenitsyn, whom he describes as a great citizenship. Shortly afterwards, he applied for and was Soviet dogma and its manifestations. man. granted political asylum in the United States. In conversations with Teslya, Gen. Grigorenko On May 7, 1969, while in Tashkent to work for the In the closing paragraphs of his book. Gen. began for the first time to "critically analyze Lenin's Tatars, Grigorenko was arrested for "slandering the Soviet state." He immediately declared a hunger Grigorenko offers a brief tribute to his adopted theoretical heritage. This set me on the path by which country, which he calls "a country of miracles." He people with Communist convictions move into the strike, and was beaten and force-fed. He was returned to Moscow and confined in Lefortovo Prison before sees the Soviet Union's drive to "catch up" with dissident movement." In studying the writings of America as a stupid slogan. "It is impossible to catch Lenin, Gen. Grigorenko discovered thaj Stalin, too^ being remanded to the Serbsky Institute for 28 days for clinical tests. Diagnosed insane, he was sent to the up," he writes. "The America of today is the result of "found in Leninism confirmation of all thoughts, many years of freedom," justifications for all his actions." Chernyakhovsk Special Psychiatric Hospital in Thus guided by his friends, Gen. Grigorenko's Byelorussia, one of the country's worst. There, he But he also offers a warning: "The West must never staunch reluctance to find fault with the Soviet system witnessed frequent beatings of patients by orderlies, forget the Soviet Union's goal — world domination. It began to erode. He became disillusioned when his although he spent m.ost of his time in solitary must at all times attempt to pull the teeth from the dissertation was challenged because of references to two confinement. He also saw prisoners being given beast of prey. Without war there is only one way to do tsarist generals. He realized that, not unlike his father" unnecessary drugs such as Aminazin (similar to this, and this is to stand firmly in defense of human- jn-la Л, who lost two daughters, two sons-in-law and a Thorazine) and an equivalent to Halidol (used mainly rights defenders in Communist countries, not sur­ son to the Stalinist purges but still managed to remain in this country to reduce the swelling of brain tumors), rendering to demagogic appeals to detente or to a deJ'cated Communist, he, too, may have let his which often causes terrible hallucinations. provocatory screams of non-interference in internal ideal'sin stand in the way of a higher truth. Even so, he In September 1973, Gen. Grigorenko was transferred affairs." is s! eked when Nikita Khrushchev launches his to the Fifth Moscow City Psychiatric Hospital hist( . ic anti-Stalin campaign at the 20th Communist accompanied by his wife, Zinaida, who told him of the There is much historical and factual information in Part z Congress. mass arrests of dissidents in 1972. On May 14, 1974, a this book that necessarily falls outside the scope of this review, such as accounts of the fates of the many "1 took a significant amount of time and many release commission, perhaps influenced by the adverse publicity the Grigorenko case was receiving in the victims of Stalin's purges and Brezhnev's crackdown con\ :Tsations with Vasily Teslya and Mitya Cher- опдЬе human-rights movement. And despite the lack nenl : before I began to grasp that crime like Stalin's West, ruled that he was "cured." He was to learn later that his release, on June 26, 1974, took place one day of profound analysis, a clear picture of this heroic man cans j, be corrected in silence; that it is in silence that — who has become a controversial figure in the the^^ ise, develop and grow. In order for such tyranny before President Richard Nixon was to arrive in Moscow to meet with Soviet leaders. Ukrainian community — does emerge. It can be said to t d, the leading party and state organs must be that he is a conscious Ukrainian and, in his own way, a und c the control of the masses." Back in Moscow, Gen. Grigorenko continued his work in the dissident movement, meeting Andrei patriot. He is also, a Soviet man, one who, by his own L 1961, his faith in Stalin completely shaken, he admission, served a cause that demanded, to a large tun d the tables on Khrushchev at a Moscow party Sakharov and the Rev. Dmitri Dudko. When the Helsinki Accords were signed in 1975, Gen. Grigo­ extent, he keep his head buried in the sand. Given his mec r^g by accusing the regime of encouraging the upbringing in tsarist- and later Soviet-occupied sarr ypQ of "cult of personality" that it had ascribed to renko first spoke out against them, arguing that they legitimized post-World War II Soviet borders. Calling eastern Ukraine, his socio-economic background and Sta ^ and for promoting "careerism" in a nominally his ideaHstic temperament, it would be obtuse not to clasi c;-^ society. After years of being eclipsed by blind the accords a "great victory for Soviet diplomacy," he noted that they did not address "the compensation to understand why he, like many of his countrymen, were aile h ce to a dream, the sense of moral indignation attracted to the promises of communism. The firs' .!'rnpsed when Gen. Grigorenko came to the states that were transformed by the aggressors into arenas of destructive and ruinous warfare during important thing is that, unlike most of his contempo­ aid '^ 'he Jewish boy, was unleashed. This time, raries, he decided to outlive the communism inside ho^ r, the object was the very system that had World War II, and also the guarantees against a repetition of any such actions in the future." himself, an undertaking of truly heroic dimensions. He alk '^^' him — virtually compelled him — to be fooled literally risked his life in the process. It is not for ^ ^ )ng. He further argued that the West stood little to gain surprising, then, that such Ukrainian patriots as Yuriy " loscow party meeting was a turning point in from the accords, and that they allowed the Soviets to Shukhevych, former OUN member Danylo Shumuk, Ge Trigorenko's life. Relieved of his teaching duties, illegally continue the occupation of formerly and such UPA veterans as Iryna Senyk and Petro he -гпі back to the Far East, the scene of his earlier sovereign nations: "The occupation of Poland, Sichko, understood the depth of his courage, and trii ^ , There, he pored over the writings of Lenin, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Byelo­ willingly joined the Ukrainian Helsinki Group he grc -Л, for answers. He found none. Allowed to russia, Moldavia and Ukraine continued." helped establish. ret ' 0 Moscow, he formed the Alliance for Struggle It was Yuri Orlov who convinced him that the foi c Rebirth of Leninism along with his son Georgi, human-rights provisions of the Helsinki Final Act It is truly a pity that elements in our own commu­ an ,e began to write pamphlets. In one of the most could be used to further publicize the democratic nity, perhaps incapable of understanding the degree of toi .ig passages in the book, he describes how he struggle in the Soviet Union. He asked Gen. Grigo­ valor surely necessary for a Soviet general to willingly dh 3uted leaflets, surreptitiously at first, and then in renko to help form what was to become the Moscow become a social outcast and a marked man in the name hi^ i^ general's uniform, convinced that the struggle Helsinki Monitoring Group. Later, Ukrainian poet of social justice and democratic ideals, do not foi :'al justice must be an open one. Mykola Rudenko asked him to help organize a similar recognize his sacrifice, his suffering and his worth. But -^sied in 1963, he refused to change course, and in group in Ukraine. then again, various elements of the Ukrainian Mi h 1964, he was sent for observation to the Writes Gen. Grigorenko of the group: "I was certain community have rejected virtually every exiled no mus Serbsky Scientific Research Institute for that the authorities would react with particular Ukrainian dissident no matter what their political Fc isic Psychiatry. Irritated by the badgering of an sensitivity to the creation of a Ukrainian group, since stripes — Leonid Plyushch, Valentyn Moroz and ign ?ni doctor, he told her that Khrushchev was a such a group could not avoid touching on the question Nadia Svitlychna. foe md would be ousted before the end of the year. of nationality, the most sensitive of all issues for the Sh m turn, diagnosed his illness as "prophesizing." Soviet Union. If the matter was brought up, the One suspects that, along with Gen. Grigorenko, these : і lie confined in the Serbsky Institute, he became authorities probably would bring particularly cruel people represent the varied voices of a post-World CO! need that the use of psychiatry against non- pressure to bear on the group. Future events con­ War II Ukraine, a reality that much of the emigre co ^rmists "was a secretly authorized plan for the firmed this apprehension, but Mykola had picked his community has never experienced, and it is this reality tra formation of dissidents from the Soviet system people well. No one 'repented,'no one retreated — not that the community probably fears more than the int lunatics." He also solidified his belief in the a single one right up to the present moment." politics of individual dissidents. It may be afraid to eff су of an open rather than underground struggle: In Gen. Grigorenko's view, the formation of the admit that it is out of touch with the homeland. This is "C n speeches attract new forces, whereas retreat group on November 9, 1976, was "a catalyst to action not to say that the dissidents themselves necessarily . int he underground increases the danger of arrest in the other union republics." In addition to Messrs. represent the Ukrainian people (none of them has wi )ut guaranteeing any growth in numbers." Grigorenko and Rudenko, the founding members of ever been foolish enough to say that), and one does not len Khrushchev was toppled from power in the Ukrainian group were Oles Berdnyk, Ivan have to agree with Gen. Grigorenko's opinions. But O' her 1964, Gen. Grigorenko's diagnosis was Kandyba, Lev Lukianenko, Myroslav Marynovych, this book and others by Ukrainian and Soviet re A'ed. Fearing that he may have had access to Mykola Matusevych, Oksana Meshko, Nina Strokata dissidents are, in themselves, portraits of immense in ;tant information abcit the workings of the and Oleksiy Tykhy. courage, and they reflect and help us understand a S^ - hierarchy on whico to base his prediction (and, According to Gen. Grigorenko, the Helsinki groups small but significant piece of contemporary Soviet th ore. have powerful friends), the authorities became the targets of official repression almost reality. The general's heroic story, then, is a must read. No. і THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY FEBRUARY 20, 1983 13

and Ukrainians share a mmrpop^ in­ titled "The World of Soviet Psychiatry" Modernization,,, terest and a common concern. USSR quits... which appeared in the January 30 issue (Continued from page 5) Fifth, as we have seen, one of the (Continued from page 1) of The New York Times Magazine. In massive forces of annihilation are precipitating conditions for strained admission of guilt, it does not mean that the article Dr. Reich described a meet­ 'Tommon to both people. relations between Jews and Ukrainians the suppression of political and religious ing in Moscow with Dr. Andrei Snezh- is the presence of foreign domination in dissent through the abusive use of nevsky, head of the Moscow Institute of Fourth, while it is true that the state Ukraine. Only when there was an psychiatric facilities and some psychia­ Psychiatry, and his deputy. Dr. Marat of Israel has resolved the struggles for absence of foreign domination, i.e. trists will cease." Vartanyan, and commented on the political independence of Jews to a during the brief interval of Ukrainian ''Many Soviet psychiatrists have workings of Soviet psychiatry. certain degree, there still remain some independence, were Jewish-Ukrainian voiced their own deep concern over the Dr. Reich had argued in the article 800,000 Jews who live in Ukraine. The relations established on what one may political abuse of their medical disci­ that expelling Soviet psychiatrists from question of national autonomy, the term an equal and salutary basis. One pline," Dr. Visotsky said. "It would the World Psychiatric Association right to one's own culture — as the U.N. may indeed conclude, therefore, that therefore seem that the resignation is a would be a mistake since it would place Charter of Human Rights calls it — is only when the conditions of foreign political rather than a scientific deci­ the Soviets "out of range of effective, still a political objective which unites domination are eradicated for both sion." concerted, face-to-face international both Jews and Ukrainians in the present Jews and Ukrainians can the problems Dr. Walter Reich, a psychiatrist with criticism," and would not contribute to context of the USSR. It is at this point of Jewish-Ukrainian relations be the Kennan Institute for Advanced a change in Soviet psychiatric practice where, once again, as in the past, Jews resolved. Russian Studies in Washington, noted or belief. that the decision to quit the world He proposed, instead, that the association was the first such Soviet WPA meeting pass a resolution em­ Name of the Edmonton Oilers in the ''statement" on human rights since Yuri powering the association "to send inian hockey... balloting. Andropov took over as head of the representatives to any member country (Continued from page 8) Bossy, who scored 14 goals in his first Soviet Communist Party. to examine persons reported to have 12 games to lead Gretzky, who had only Bossy shades Gretzky "Because of its symbolic importance, been hospitalized for political reasons. eight in his first 13 outings, is off to since the problem of psychiatric abuse If permission for such examinations were in winning award another fantastic start and already the has been one of the most prominent withheld, the association would hold statisticians are wondering if Bossy isn't issues in relation to human rights, the that country's psychiatric establishment It isn't every day that the Great on his way to a record goal-scoring withdrawal seems to represent the in official international contempt." season for him. His career high is 69, set Gretzky has to take a back seat in the statement that the West cannot expect This, Dr. Reich said, "would provide in 1978-79. Gretzky, of course, set the National Hockey League. It happened the Soviets to respond to pressures a mechanism for continuing to press for league mark with 92. after Mike Bossy, the New York brought to bear on them in this way," re-examination of Soviet dissidents Islanders' super sharp-shooter, was At press time, the record did not seem Dr. Reich said. believed to have been victims of mis- chosen the first Player of the Month for to be in jeopardy, as Bossy, along with Dr. Reich is the author of an article diagnoses." October by the NHL. In order to win the rest of the Islander gang, has the honor, the Islanders' right winger slumped on and off during this off year had to beat out Wayne What's-His- for New Yorkers. A SPECIAL OFFER

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English. Delaware County, Pa. Ukrainian remarks were delivered by (Continued from page 11) Ms. Bida, who for many years WHY DRIVE AROUND WITH BUNDLES OF CASH Court House, Pennsylvania Historical has been extremely active in the Ukrai­ and Museum Commission, delivered a nian American community. welcome address. State Sen, Bell then presented and Mr. Pastuszek then introduced the read the Commonwealth of Pennsyl­ distinguished guests present including: vania Proclamation recognizing this Msgr. Peter Lypyn, pastor of Holy anniversary of Ukraine's independence. Ghost Ukrainian Catholic Church, In his remarks he stated that "the world Chester; the Rev. Michael Petlak, should never forget that when Gen. pastor of St. Mary's Ukrainian Ortho­ George Washington was crossing the dox Church, Chester; Pastor John Delaware River there were several Kowalchuk, Ukrainian Baptist Church, brave soldiers of Ukrainian descent Crum Lynne; the Very Rev. Paul Hry- accompanying him on that march." nyshyn, pastor of Ss. Peter and Paul Mr. Weldon of the Delaware County Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Wilming­ Council extended brief remarks and ton, Del.; Judge Robert A. Wright of the Delaware County Common Pleas presented the proclamation from Dela­ Court; Pennsylvania State Sen. Clarence ware County. He enumerated the many D. Bell; W. Curtis Weldon, vice chair­ contributions that Americans of Ukrai­ WHEN YOU CAN OPEN A CHECKING ACCOUNT man of the Delaware County Council; nian descent in Delaware County have Nicholas F. Catania, member of the made to the community, and he ap­ with Delaware County Council; Dr. Leonid plauded the fact that they keep alive D. Rudnytzky, professor at LaSalle Uni­ their hopes of a free Ukraine, versity; State Rep. (i59th District) Chester Mayor Battle then read and Ukrainian Savings Robert C. Wright; Chester Mayor presented the city's proclamation with Joseph F. Battle; City Treasurer Willie brief remarks. He was presented flowers Mae Leake; Chester City Councilman by Christine Long and Adriane Bida, and Loan Association Leo S. Holmes; Michael Kowalchuk, who were dressed in beautiful Ukrai­ Ш Your checking account with us will earn the highest dividend allowed by law. president of the Delaware County nian costumes. The city proclamation e Send us deposits by mail - we pay for the postage. UCCA; Stephen Bida, vice president of was presented to Joseph Kiziuk, a surviving member of the Ukrainian UKRAINIAN SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCiATION the Delaware County UCCA; John Panco, president of the Ukrainian Galician Army. 1321 W. Lindley Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. 19141 m JeL: (215) 329-7080 National Home; Stefan Hawrysz, su­ Mr. Pastuszek then presented beauti­ HOURS: preme organizer of the Ukrainian ful parchment certificates of apprecia­ Mon.-Thurs--9 а.тЛо 3 p.m. " Friday - 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. я Saturday^ 9 a.m. to Noon National Association. Also present was tion on behalf of the committee to Dr. Bohdan Malecky, a former member of Rudnytzky, in appreciation of his many the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, years of involvement in the Ukrainian American community and for his Dr. Rudnytzky, professor of Ger­ manic and Slavic languages at LaSalle participation in this ceremony; Maria University, delivered brief remarks in Long, who for many years has led the assembly in the singing of American and Ukrainian national anthems on this occasion; Sister Martin, principal of Holy Ghost Ukrainian Catholic School, for her many years support in these УКРАЇНСЬКЕ БЮРО celebrations of Ukrainian indepen­ ПОДОРОЖЕЙ dence; Mr. Bida for his numerous contributions to the Ukrainian Ameri­ scope Гельбіґ can community over the years. Mr. Pastuszek then recognized all the (201) 371-4004 - 845 Sanford Avenue, Newark, NJ. 07106 members of the committee for their J215) 379-2755 -700 Cedar Rd., Philadeiphia, Pa. (Ukrainian) assistance and support of these cere­ monies. S429.00 from Newark FLORIDA WARM MINERAL SPRINGS The president of the UCCA branch, І479.00 from Phila. Mr. Kowalchuk, then made brief re­ (Waters are rich in natural healing sources for arthritic and rheumatic "VESNA" S439.00 from Chicago marks. The benediction was delivered disorders). Air from Newark, Philadelphia and Chicago. Airport/ by the Rev. Petlak. Aprii 11-25 pension transfers; accommodations in 2 bedroom apartments; even­ 14 days The assembly then witnessed the ing entertainment programs. Registration deadline: Escorts: OKSANA and JAROSLAV PINOTRUDAKEVYCH, flying of the Ukrainian and American March 1st flags at the Chester City Hall and sang the PARIS, LUCERNE, SALZBURG/Reunlon American and Ukrainian national athems. "MAGICAL dates/ VENICE, ZADAR, DUBROVNIK, For the first time, the proceedings of EUROPE" BANJA LUKA, ZAGREB, VIENNA 11,699.00 this commemoration were telecast and PRICE INCLUDES: Air transportation from New York, accomodations 17 days produced for community cable TV by June 25 - July 13 at first-class hotels, breakfasts and dinners daily, sightseeing tours Registration deadline: Mr. Bida and directed by Alexander R. in each city, transportation on private motorcoach throughout March 1st Pastuszek. It will be shown on the i'?^ itinerary, services of American Express guide in Europe and services community channel through the facility of Ukrainian speaking Scope Escort from New York throughout of American Cable Vision of Pennsyl­ itinerary, all hotel taxes, service charges and tipping. vania. Л^^^^ A deposit of S250.00 per person must reach our office by March 1, Many students from the Holy Ghost .'f/ 1983. Registrations will be accepted on a first come first serve basis. Ukrainian Catholic School were in Space is limited to 30 persons. attendance and the court house was Tour Escort: ULIANA BABIUK filled to capacity.

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also contributed information as to the Ш.. ^^ Florida purpose of this celebration with a Plast unit sponsors 1 WHY TAX YOURSELR ^ (Continued from page II) review of the heroic struggle for free­ annual literary contest I Let experience work for you. Firestone, in observance of the 65th dom by the Ukrainian nation. At the I Contact: Michael lapWtny,Consultant anniversary of Ukrainian independence. conclusion of the program, Mr. Bemko NEW YORK - The senior Plast unit 1 FIRESIDE TAX CONSULTING presented a basket of pysanky to Mr. I 909 Union Street. Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215 During the ceremonies a young lady, of Verkhovynky has announced its I (212) 622-1560 Diane Dzurik, introduced herself as a Werndli. second annual literary contest, dedi­ Ukrainian from Northampton, Pa., and Later, Mr. Firestone informed Mr. cated to the memory of the late L^sia revealed that she was on the staff of Kohut that the Ukrainian national flag Dziadiv-Kulchytsky, who was a mem­ Florida Gov. Bob Graham. and the pysanky will be on permanent ber of the unit. PYSANKY John Kohut, representing the parish display in the State Library of Florida, The contest is open to youths age 11- Easter comes early this year. All pre­ of Epiphany of Our Lord, St. Peters­ and that several times each year, during 18, who belong to Plast, SUM, or parations for making lovely traditional burg, gave a short address in English as special conferences and ceremonial ODUM. Deadline for all entries is pysanky (hand decorated eggs) can be to the purpose of the observance of this events, the flag will be unfurled and purchased by writing for our SPECIAL December 31, 1983. PYSANKY ORDER FORM to anniversary. He then introduced the displayed proudly with the flags of The judges of the contest include Rev. Jarosiaw Fedyk, pastor of the St. other free nations. Upon their return to Bohdan Boychuk, Valentina Yurchenko HANUSEY MUSIC 4 GIFTS Petersburg Ukrainian Catholic Church, St. Petersburg, the tired travelers and Alexandra Juzeniw. 244 W. Girard Avenue who addressed the assemblage in Ukrai­ agreed that their spirits were high and Philadelphia, Pa. 19123 The four winners of the contest in (215) 627-3093, 627-0785 nian, reviewing events that led to this that they were proud to be Ukrainian 1982 were entrants from Toronto, Phila­ historic period in Ukraine's history. Floridians. Special thanks were offered delphia, Detroit and France. Father Fedyk continued with the to Messrs. Bemko and Kohut, co­ Lord's Prayer, and Mrs. l^sawyer sang ordinators of the "pilgrimage." A the "Star-Spangled Banner." Bohdan commemorative concert took place Bemko directed the church choir's Sunday, January 23, in the church hall, singing of several patriotic songs, and following the divine liturgy. UKRANIAN ENGINEERS SOCIETY OF AMERICA presents Armored Division in the European OUR FUTURE IS FORGED TODAY William Choly... Theater. He was awarded the Bronze (Continued from page 4) Star, Presidential Unit Citation, the - A PANEL as a member of the Yonkers Aquatic European Theater Ribbon with five 4 p.m., March 5, 1983 Society. stars, and the American Defense Ser­ Ukrainian Institute of America, 2 East 79th St., New York, N.Y. He was named sports editor at the vice Medal. former Yonkers Daily Times in 1947 He retired from the Catholic Youth Z Moderator: VLADYMIR HNATKOWSKY - Fairchild Industries and later wrote a column, "Choly's Organization of the Archdiocese of f TOPICS: Chatter," for the Yonkers Home News New York where he worked for 31 years ^ The Future Is More Important Than the Past - DR. OSYP MOROZ and Times. A former contributing and was a member of the American I The Ukrainian Milieu Through Different Eyes - DR. BOHDAN CYMBALISTYJ writer for The Herald Stateman, Mr. Association of Retired Persons. Incrising Membership of Young Generation in Ukrainain Professional Organization - Choly was also a correspondent for He was a member of the auditing various wire services. committee of the Yonkers SUM-A NESTOR HOLYNSKY In 1968 he was presented with the Federal Credit Union and a lifelong ^ Ukrainian Community in Diaspora Now and in the Future and the Role of a Ukrainian Outstanding Citizen Award by the member of UNA Branch 8. Professional - ROMAN SAVYCKY Exchange Club of Yonkers and the Mr. Choly was born on January 14, ^ Progress or stagnation - Perspective for Ukrainian Community in Diaspora - Department of Parks, Recreation and 1919, in Raritan, N.J. He graduated DR. ROMAN PROCYK ConseWation. from the former High School of Com­ A World War П veteran, he was an merce as class president and also from active member of the Catholic War Pace Business School in Yonkers. Veterans and had served as that organi­ A sister, Eleanor, and several nieces zation's Westchester County com­ KOBASNIUK TRAVEL INC. and nephews survive. His sisters Rose, (Established 1920) mander. Katherine and Mildred, and brothers 157 Second Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10003 During the war he served as an army Walter and John N. Choly Sr., died warrant officer junior grade with the 4th earlier. (212)254-8779 ECKOPTOBAHI ГРУПОВІ ТУРИ В 1983 РОЦІ LEHIGH VALLEY, PENNA. DISTRICT COMMITTEE Ukrainian National Association РОКСОЛЯМ 2-22 СЕРПНЯ 1983 p. Ьідлет s НюЙорку лімісю announces ГРЕЦІЯ-ЮГОС/ІАВІЯ Uiftbansa бшгтоп Airlm9S ЗА/ІЬЦБУРГ'МЮНХЕН 2І-ДЕННАТУРА ^ 1,951. ANNUAL MEETING КЕНІГСЛОРФ npobiQHuk-IBAH ЛУЧЕЧКО OF THE -ATHENS (Sounion) -BELGRADE - ZAGREB -DELPHI -NOVISAD - SALZBURG -METEORA - SARAJEVO -MUNICH DISTRICT COMMITTEE - ATHENS -BANJA LUKA - KOENIGSDORF Екскурсії у кожному місті як теж відвідини українських поселень Will be held у Югославії - Кула, Новий Сад, Сремська Митровиця, Баня Лука та on Sunday, March 6, 1983 at 2:00 p.m. KOENIGSDORF 19-21 серпня ЮШ ЗУСТРІЧ 1983. at the ГРЕЦІЯ 4-19 СЕРПНЯ 1983 р. American Ukrainian Citizen Club, Main-East St., West Easton, Pa. bigAtm 5 НюЙорку (Boeing747)Metro/nternationof Airways AGENDA FOR MEETING: ОСТРОВИ І 16-ДЕННА ПОДОРОЖ/КРУЗА ВІД 51,635. 1. Opening of meeting. ТУРЕЧЧИНА ПроЬідниця-НАТАЛІЯ СОНЕВИЦЬКА 2. Election of presidium. - ATHENS (Sounion)' 3. Reading of Minutes of Prior Annual Meeting. - NAUPLIA 4. Reports of outgoing officers and Auditing Committee. -OLYMPIA -MYKONOS -RHODES 5. Discussion of reports. - DELPHI -KUSAOASKEphesus) -CRETE (Herokllon) - ATHENS -PATMOS - SANTORINI 6. Granting of vote of confidence to outgoing officers. 7. Election of Officers and Auditing Committee for 1983. 8-25 СЕРПНЯ I983p. 8. Address by Supreme President - Dr. JOHN FLIS. Е4ЕУІЬВ^ИС Ьідлет 3 Ню Йорку лінією 9. Acceptance of plan of work for 1983. Lufthansa German Airlines 10. Miscellaneous - questions and discussion. НІМЕЧЧИНА'ШВАЙЦ АРІЯ І8-ДЕННАТУРА5І,788. 11. Adjournment of meeting. ІТАЛІЯ-АВСТРІЯ ПроЬідник' invited and obligated to attend, are officers of the District Committee and convention АНДРІЙ ЛАСТОВЕЦЬКИЙ , delegates of the following Branches: - HEIDELBERG -VENICE - LUCERNE -GRAZ -STMORITZ -VIENNA - ROTHENBURG Branch 44,46,47,48,124,137,143,147,151.288,318,369, and 438 - SIRMIONE (L.GARDA) -MUNICH - WURZBUR6/FRANKFURT Present at the meeting will be: Підчас подорожі відвідини - Rhine Falls - Verona - Mayerling Dr. John Flis, UNA Supreme President Helligenkreuz - Salzburg, ВІДВІДИНИ ЮМП ЗУСТРІЧІ 20 і 21 серпня у KOENIGSDORF, Anna Haras, UNA supreme Advisor

RECEPTION WILL FOLLOW. ТО: KOBASNIUK TRAVEL INC., 157 Second Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10003 (SV) FOR THE DISTRICT COMMITTEE: Please send me your detailed information FLYER for the 1983 TOUR marked below: Michael Kolodrub Anna Haras Stefan Mucha Z 7 ROXOLANA Z 7 GREECE, the Islands A Turkey /ZU EDELVfEISS Honorary Chairman President Secretary-Ukrainian NAME: Area Code: Tel.No Anna Strot Dmytro Mushastyj Anna Pypiuk ADDRESS: Zip.Code: Secretary-English Treasurer Honorary Chairman THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY FEBRUARY 20, 1983 No. f

Friday, February 25 Ukraine" is the theme of a dance to be held 8 p.m. to midnight to the MONTREAL: Luba and Ireneus PREVIEW OF EVENTS tunes of the Alex and Dorko Band, Zuk, duo-pianists, will present a there will be an exhibit of memo­ NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Insti­ The dance is sponsored by the Odessa recital of two-piano works at Pollack rabilia. Suggested donation is S8. tute of America announces a new Ukrainian Dancers of Rhode Island Concert Hall, 555 Sherbrooke W. at For more information, call the insti­ educational series for young pro­ at St. Michael's Ukrainian Orthodox 8 p.m. The Zuk duo will be heard in tute at (212) 288-8660. fessionals, ''Planning for Career Parish Hall, 74 Harris Ave, For more the world premiere of "Diachronie" Success," The first of four programs information or tickets contact George (1980) by French composer Marian Sunday, February 27 will present three case histories of Hreczuck, 90 Summer St., Black- Kouzan and the Montreal premiere successful career paths in different stone, Mass. 01504; (617) 883-4327. of "Fantasy '' (1982) written for them NEW YORK: There will be a sound fields. The program begins at 8:30 Tickets are S7.50 in advance and SIO by Canadian composer David Keane. and light presentation on "A Pilgrim- p.m. and promises to be an original at the door. The program will also include ''So­ mage to Pochayiv,''given by Dr. Ihor event. A professional performer will Sunday, March 6 nata" (1970) by George Fiala, "Ca- Fedoriw at the Ukrainian Institute of act as master of ceremonies. Suggest­ priccio" (1964) by Michael Baker and America, at 4 p.m. This show will ed donation is S8. For more infor­ MUNSTER, Ind.: Local UNA Robert Schumann's "Andante" and feature rare and recent slides of the mation, call the institute at (212) 288- branches have organized a screening Variations, Op. 46, for two pianos, Pochayiv monastery and an accom­ 8660. two cellos and horn. In this last work, panying sound track. Suggested of the UNA-sponsored film by donation is S5. The institute is Slavko Nowytski, "Helm of Destiny." the Zuk duo will be joined by Kris- ABINGTON, Pa.: The Ukrainian located at 2 E. 79th St. The hourlong film will be shown at 4 tina Melnyk and Francois Maio, College Students Association of cello, and Jean Goudreault, horn. p.m. at St. Josaphat Ukrainian Philadelphia has rescheduled its wine Catholic Church hall Ridge and NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Aca­ and cheese social (originally planned demy of Arts and Sciences will White Oak roads. The public is for Friday, February 11, out snowed invited. Saturday, February 26 sppnsor two lectures in its Lviv series out) tonight at 8 p.m. at the Ukrai­ today at 2 p.m. The first lecture will nian Educational and Cultural be given by Martha Bohachevsky- Saturday, March 19 ABINGTON, Pa.: The Ukrainian Center, 700 Cedar Road. All college Chomiak. It is titled "Lviv in Time Educational and Cultural Center of students, their Ukrainian professors and Space." The second lecture YONKERS, N,Y.: The Yonkers Greater Philadelphia will hold a gala and the Ukrainian community are featuring slides will be given by SUM-A branch will sponsor an open banquet-concert tonight to celebrate invited. For more information, please architect Titus Hewryk on the volleyball tournament today. The fee its third anniversary. The event will call Leonard Hayduchok at (215) "Architecture of the Lviv Market.'' is S40 per team, due by February 25. be held at the center, 700 Cedar 387-8575. The lectures will be given at the All age groups will be represented. A Road; it begins at 7 p.m. and will be dance to the sounds of the Iskra and preceded by cocktails and hors academy's building, 206 W. 100th St. Saturday, March 5 Vatra bands, will follow. For more d'oeuvres at 6 p.m. information, call (914) 969-7486 To help celebrate this occasion the Tuesday, March 1 WOONSOCKET, R.I.: "A Night in (days) and (914)476-6781 (evenings). Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center has invited two renowned WOONSOCKET, R.L: The Odessa Ukrainian American artists, Roman Ukrainian Dancers of Rhode Island Rudnytsky and Maria Yasinsky- will be the featured performers at a SUSK to hold conference Murowany to perform in the pro­ Ukrainian Night planned by the gram part of the evening. Ms. Muro- Woonsocket Y Wives and Girls VANCOUVER, British Columbia - rence, please contact Ukrainian Cana­ wany will be accompanied on the Club. The dance group is sponsored The Ukrainian Canadian Students dian Students' Union, 401 Unicentre, piano by Jeffrey Miller. The master by St. Michael's Ukrainian Ortho­ Union (SUSK) will hold its 1983 Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario of ceremonies for this gala event will dox Church and directed by Thomas Western Conference on multicultural- K1S-5B6; (613) 733-0473; 231-5507; or be Lev Jackewycz. Chaharyn and Natalie Michaluk. ism and leadership skills development, Judy Heyworth, president, UBC Ukrai­ All the proceeds of the affair will Accordionist Alex Chudolij provides here the weekend of March 3-6. nian Students' Club, 1431 E, 27th St., go toward the needs of the center, music. For more information, please The conference will be hosted by the North Vancouver, British Columbia; and the tickets are a tax-deductible call Ms. Michaluk, (401) 769-0351. University of British Columbia Ukrai­ V7J 1S6, (604)987-0532. contribution towards a voting share. nian Students' Club and will feature Friday, March 4 lectures and workshops on such topics NEW YORK: A special tribute com­ as: Ukrainian Canadian music; Ukrai­ Softball league planned memorating the diamond jubilee of WOONSOCKET, R.L: The Odessa nians in the media; Canada's federal prima ballerina Valentina Pereya- Ukrainian Dancers, sponsored by St. multiculturalism policy; Ukrainian NEW YORK - The first organiza­ slavec will be held tonight at 6 p.m. at Michael's Ukrainian Orthodox community life on the West Coast; tional meeting of the Ukrainian Softball the Ukrainian Instituteof America, 2 Church, will give a presentation of youth and the Ukrainian community: League will be held Saturday, February E. 79th St. The mistress of cere­ Ukrainian dance to the Order of the how to combat apathy; and leadership 26, at 7 p.m. at Lys Mykyta on Second monies will be Roma Pryma-Bo- Eastern Star during the organiza­ skills development. Avenue. hachevsky, with special guests Ostap tion's Friendship Visitation for The club has also scheduled a number The league is planning three tourna­ Tarnawsky, president of Slovo, and Rhode Island and Massachusetts at of social activities, including a wine- ments for the summer season. Past George Bohachevsky, baritone with the Masonic Temple, Clinton Street and-cheese reception, a tour of Van­ participants and interested groups are the New York City Opera. Also, in Woonsocket. couver by night, and a banquet/dance. invited to attend. For further informa­ For more information on this confe­ tion, call Mike Mulyk at (212) 854-8030.

' 44,000 poods of grain, yet the state did hot even reported that his chances against Hindenburg The Great Famine receive halt the quota it had imposed on the were "very slim." (Continued from page 7) raion. These kinds of incidents are ''daily In Madrid, the second republic government Soviet transportation system, noting that much happenings in Ukraine," reported Pravda, and battled with the Communists and anarchists of the harvested grain was awaiting transporta­ only "by means of a battle that has no regard for who made an attempt to tumble the state. The tion into the cities, sitting at pick-up points as well anything against the kulaks and their agent- Communists were exiled to various islands off as in railroad cars, where it was subjected to opportunists', will they achieve victory on the the coast of Spain. dampness, and afflicted with smuts, rusts and grain front." rots. The newspaper also reported that 190 cars Lastly, Pravda confirmed that preparatory In the United States, the situation was looking of rye had caught fire and burned while waiting work for spring planting was very unsatisfac­ up. The Republican Party, in celebration of to be transported. tory: the delivery of seeds as well as the Abraham Lincoln's birthday, spoke in defense of Thus, the grain situation got worse, reported renovation of tractors in certain regions had not President Herbert Hoover, saying that just as Svoboda,as it printed news of an "Order to the even begun. The newspaper stated that not only Lincoln did not cause the Civil War, Hooverdid Bolsheviks of Ukraine to fulfill its grain individual farms, but collective farms also were not cause the depression and unemployment. collection quota for the month of February," guilty of holding back grain from the state. Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing which had appeared in Pravda. Svoboda Company announced that it would be giving statedrThis shows that the Bolsheviks are paid vacations and hiring more people, and it putting a lot of pressure of the Ukrainian seemed that the country was headed for better peasants to hand over all the grain they har­ Meanwhile, a severe winter hit the rest of times. vested, including the grain they kept for their Europe. A deep freeze touched many countries. In Houston, members of the South Texas own needs." Cases of people frozen to death were reported in Producers Association spilled 1,500 gallons of Pravda stated thai the grain delivered to northern Italy. The Venetian canals froze over, milk into a canal to protest the new price collection stations was far behind the scheduled the bitter cold reached as far as the southern decrease in milk. Milk went for 16.бе a gallon, a plan. The newspaper blamed the lack of grain Mediterranean. decrease from 20e. being delivered on the kulaks and on party In Berlin, 2.5 million people signed a petition Thus, the month of February in the year 1932 opportunists, who did not fulfill their assign­ asking the 84-year-old president, Paul von came to an end. The beginning of the great ments 100 percent. It also stated that the Hindenburg,to run once more for president; he catastrophe that was to kill 7 million Ukrainians peasants hide the grain and then sell it clande­ consented. Adolf Hitler was quickly made a in the Soviet Union was developing with the stinely on the black market. Reportedly, in the citizen of Germany so that he, too, would be able news thai the 1932 harvest was poor and the Yetymovsky raion, the peasants supposcuiv sold run for president. The Berlin newspaper spring planting of 1932 was unsatisfactory.