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Ll No. 35 THE .UKRAINIAN WEEKLY .SUNDAY, AUGUST 28,1983 25 cents Popadiuk gets 15-year term UNA tells World Congress: while still in internal exile UCCA no longer our rep ELL1C0TT C1TY, Md. - Ukrai– JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - in a letter to organization in the free world and a co- nian dissident Zorian Popadiuk has the Presidium of the World Congress of founder of the Ukrainian Congress been sentenced to 15 years' imprison– Free Ukrainians, the Ukrainian Na– Committee of America, was among the ment after being convicted of "anti- tional Association has informed that representatives of those 27 national Soviet agitation and propaganda," body that it does not consider the Ukrainian organizations in the United reported the Smoloskyp Ukrainian Ukrainian Congress Committee of States that walked out of the 13th information Service. America to be its representative within Congress of Ukrainians in America to protest against planned and consistent Mr. Popadiuk. who is said to be the WCFU or any other forum. The UNA informed the WCFU that it violations ol the by-laws and the law seriously ill. was arrested in October and order of the UCCA during the 1982 while serving an exile term in the considers the recently established U– krainian American Coordinating preparations for and at the 13th Con– Kazakhstan region of the USSR, in grcss by the leaders of the ideological- 1973, he was sentenced to seven years in Council its representative. The August 16 letter to the WCFU political group known under the name a labor camp and five years' internal Ukrainian Liberation Front. exile for publishing the underground was signed by UNA Supreme President journal. Progress. John O. Flis, and it was written follow– 2. in view of the fact that all attempts ing a unanimous decision by the Su– of the Committee for 1 ,aw and Order in During his latest trial, which re– preme Executive Committee of the the UCCA, during a period of two and portedly took place March 4, the 30- UNA on August 12. one-half years, to restore law and order year-old dissident was accused of en- The fourth World Congress of Free in the UCCA were not greeted with gaging in anti-Soviet activities. But Ukrainians is scheduled for December understanding and good will on the part sources in Ukraine have reported that in Toronto. of the violators of that law and order, Mr. Popadiuk, who is suffering from The UNA has called on all other the UNA joined with all other members tuberculosis, has been far too ill to Zorian Popadiuk organizations whose representatives do of the Committee for Law and Order in participate in any human-rights activi– not recognize the current UCCA leader- the UCCA, which, having lost all hope ties. ferred him to Kazakhstan. ship to send similar letters to the WCFU of reaching an understanding with the Mr. Popadiuk was to be released Presidium. representatives of the Ukrainian Libera– Born in Sambir, Mr. Popadiuk was from exile this year. According to The full text of the UNA's letter tion Front who act in the name of the enrolled in the philology faculty of Lviv Smoloskyp, his re-arrest and subse– follows. UCCA, created the Ukrainian Ameri– University. While a student, he protest– quent stiff sentence - 10 years in a can Coordinating Council. The goal of ed the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czecho– labor camp and five years' internal exile this council is to see to it that law and slovakia. - apparently signal Soviet leader Yuri order are restored within the Ukrainian community in the United States through Andropov's intention to thoroughly in conjunction with the situation that After completing his labor-camp the re-establishment of an appropri tc arose in our Ukrainian community in term in 1980, Mr. Popadiuk was first eliminate any vestiges of organized central representation. exiled to the Yakutsk region, where he opposition in Ukraine, including hu– the United States in the wake of the 13th caught pneumonia, which later develop– man-rights activists and former mem– Congress of Ukrainians in America held in conjunction with this, and in ed into tuberculosis. Later that year bers of the Organization of Ukrainian in October 1980, and in conjunction accordance with the unanimous deci– surgeons removed several segments of Nationalists and the Ukrainian insur– with the fourth World Congress of Free sion of the UNA Supreme Executive his right lung. gent Army. Of late, several members of Ukrainians scheduled for December of Committee at its regular meeting on the latter organizations, which fought this year, we hereby inform you of the August 12. we hereby inform the WCFU By 1981, he was reported to also be against the Soviets during and after following: Presidium that: suffering from an undisclosed heart World War 11, have been arrested and 1. The leadership of the Ukrainian 1. The UNA does not recognize the ailment. Alarmed by the poor state of executed, ostensibly for cooperating National Association, the oldest and present leadership of the UCCA as its his health, authorities quickly trans– with the Germans during the war. largest Ukrainian fraternal community representative within the WCFU or any other forum. 2. instead, the UNA considers the Ukrainian American Coordinating Smoloskyp, Soviet officials clash at Helsinki Council as its representative. HELS1NK1, Finland - Materials held world records in track and field insisted that it had the right to freely concerning Ukraine's right to partici– events. distribute its materials to press repre– pate in international sports events as a The information service, based in sentatives and others at the meet, in separate nation were confiscated by Ellicott City, Md., was represented by response, meet officials ordered guards As reported earlier, the Ukrainian officials at the world track and field editor Osyp Zinkewycz, who brought posted at the various information tables American Coordinating Council has championships here earlier this month up the matter of Ukrainian participa– with orders that they forcibly prevent sent a letter to the World Congress of after Soviet representatives lodged a tion at an August 7 press conference the dissemination of Smoloskyp ma– Free Ukrainians seeking UACC reprc– strong protest. organized by meet officials in the terials. scntation within that body. The UACC The materials were prepared by the Finlandia Center. in addition, meet representatives executive called on its membcr-or– Smoloskyp Ukrainian information The following day, shortly after the confiscated copies of Smoloskyp ganizations to send letters to the WCFU Service which had press credentials to opening ceremonies, the Soviets lodged materials from the press center copying stating that the UCCA no longer repre– cover the competition, held in the a formal protest and demanded that the facilities on August 8. The same day. sents them and that they support UACC Finnish capital on August 7-14. Smo– dissemination of the Smoloskyp ma– Finnish officials asked American reprc– representation within the WCFU. loskyp called for Ukraine and Byelo– terials be curtailed. Nervous meet and sentatives to intervene in the matter russia, for members of the United Finnish officials, fearful that the Soviets because Smoloskyp had received press Nations, as well as other constituent might pull out of the competition, met accreditation in the United States. 1NS1DE: republics of the USSR, to be allowed to with Smoloskyp representatives and After the meeting, Mr. Zinkewycz field their own independent national appealed to them to stop their activi– issued a statement to the press in which ш Dissident profile: Yevhen Proniuk. teams in international competitions. ties. A Finnish official reportedly told he defended the actions of Smoloskyp, ш Conclusion of interview with Oksana Smoloskyp also provided a list of 15 Mr. Zinkewycz that after the meet his stating that "only independent partici– Dragan. chief of vOA Ukrainian Branch. Ukrainian athletes on the 130-member country still has to live in the repressive pation of Ukraine in international m Media reports on the Great Famine. Soviet team, as well as the names of 22 shadow of the Soviet Union. sporting events will prevent the necessity m New releases: books, records. Ukrainian athletes who hold or have Despite the entreaties, Smoloskyp of this kind of activity." 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 28,1983 No. 35 Dissident profile Samvydav reports continued Yevhen Proniuk: persecution of Catholic Church JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - Several portedly attended a town meeting and serving exile term incidences underscoring continued threatened to close the local church KGB harassment of the outlawed U– unless the people converted to Russian JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - in 1964, krainian Catholic Church were report– Orthodoxy, in leaving, the agents Yevhen Proniuk, then 28, was a ed in the latest issue of the under- sealed up all the liturgical vessels in the promising young Ukrainian' philo– ground Chronicle of the Catholic church. sopher. His article, "Shevchenko and Church in Lithuania to reach the West. in yet another incident, this one in the O. Terletsky," was just published, The Chronicle, which is published village of Brykunai, KGB agents are and in the next several years his clandestinely in Lithuania and smuggl– reported to have sacked a church, articles on the history of Ukrainian ed abroad, described several KGB destroying icons and liturgical appoint– philosophy appeared in several books operations in western Ukraine aimed at ments. The attack occurred during and journals. Today, Yevhen Pro– intimidating Ukrainian Catholics and working hours, but several women who niuk is a political prisoner, exiled in breaking up underground churches.