www.ukrweekly.com ^4jL THE І СВОБОДА JtlSvOBODA І І Ш В В MB т УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ ЩОДЕННИК ^Щр^ UKRA1N1ANDA1L4 Щ Щ UkrainiaENGLISH LANGUAGnE WEEKL Y WeeEDITION k VOL. LXXXIV No. 157 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10,1977 v 25 CENTS Kiev Group Scores Rudenko, Tykhy Receive Trial of Rudenko, Tykhy LONDON, England.-Members of was transformed into a court scene and Maximum Sentences the Kiev Ukrainian Public Group to filled with a carefully selected public. Promote the implementation of the No friends or observers were allowed Get 7,10 Years, Plus 5 Years Exile Each Helsinki Accords have scored the trial into the court. Not even close friends of Mykola Rudenko and Oleksiy or family had been informed either DRUZHKivKA, Ukraine.–Myko– Tykhy. about the end of the investigation or la Rudenko, chairman of the Kiev in a statement released here Satur– the beginning of the trial. Ukrainian Public Group to Promote day, July 2, by the Committee for the As a result the defendants were left the implementation of the Helsinki Defense of Soviet Political Prisoners, without any defense. And the wife of Accords, and Oleksiy Tykhy, a mem– the Kiev Group said that the investiga– Rudenko and the 80-year-old mother ber, were sentenced to the full extent of and trial were conducted in "gangs– of Tykhy were admitted only on the the law here Friday, July 1, on alleged ter-like methods". sixth day. They were shaken by the charges of anti-Soviet agitation and "Such is 'socialist democracy'! And appearance of the accused. Both defen– propaganda. so, seven years strict regime and five dants appeared tired and exhausted, in Rudenko, 56, was sentenced to seven years exile for the leader of the Ukrai– the course of the defense and especially years incarceration and five years exile, nian Group to Promote the implemen– during his final statement Mykola Ru– and Tykhy, 50, received ten years con– tation of the Helsinki Accords, the denko felt faint several times. This is finement and five years exile. The poet and philosopher Mykola Ruden– not surprising, five months of deten– maximum sentence was demanded by ko; and ten years of special regime and tion in a Donetske prison which is situ– the prosecutor, five years exile for a member of the ated in a heavily polluted (indus– Rudenko and Tykhy were the first group, the schoolteacher Oleksiy trialized) region, could not have passed two persons associated with Helsinki Tykhy," said the Kiev Group mem– without having taken their toll. watch groups in the Soviet Union to be bers. The court declared the Ukrainian sentenced. group to be an anti-Soviet organization Mykola Rudenko The document, called "Declaration Their trial began here in a closed fac– of the Ukrainian Group to Promote and its documents as anti-Soviet. This doors, with some 60-70 KGB-approved is a blatant falsehood. Among the do– tory some 60 km. north of Donetske, spectators in attendance. the implementation of the Helsinki Ac- Thursday, June 23. Relatives and cords on the Trial of Mykola Rudenko cuments of this group there isn't one Members of the Kiev and Moscow which we would not support. We find friends of the defendants were not no– groups who attempted to attend the and Oleksa Tykhy, was signed in Kiev, tified until Tuesday, June 28. July 1, 1977, by Petro vins, Petro Hry– only documents which discuss actual trial were intercepted by the local mili– horenko, Olha Heyko-Matusevych, violations of the Helsinki Accords in According to the Committee for the tia and confined for the duration of the Oksana Meshko, and Nina Strokata– our country, it is easy to be convinced Defense of Soviet Political Prisoners, proceedings. Karavanska. of this if all the facts we have reported Rudenko and Tykhy were assigned Tykhy's 80-year-old mother was also The Kiev group fears that Rudenko's are subject -to public examination. But lawyers by the court. denied access to the trial, as were sentence means death for him because such a public examination was not even Tykhy refused the appointed attor– workers from Tykhy's factory in of his war wounds. attempted. Worse than this, measures ney and served as his own defense. Ru– Donetske. "On account of his war wounds he were adopted so that even the public in their final statement Friday, July would not know what was taking place denko accepted the assigned lawyer, will not last long under the conditions just for advisory purposes, but the 1, both defendants pleaded not guilty of the strict regime concentration in the court. The organizers of the trial to charges of anti-Soviet agitation. behaved in a Mafia-like way, abduc– court-appointed advisor repeatedly camp," they wrote. sided with the prosecution. They said they only spoke the truth, re– For Tykhy, who is infirmed, the sen– (Continued on page 2) The trial was held behind closed (Continued on page 5) tence is for life, they said. "if he survives the conditions of the special regime camp followed by exile, then his health will undoubtedly dete– riorate," they wrote. Below is the full text of the declara– Soyuzivko Opens Silver Anniversary Season tion translated from Ukrainian: Declaration of the Ukrainian Group to KERHONKSON, N.Y.—Neat as a the surrounding mountains when Anya Sunday evening saw the debut of Promote the implementation of the pin, with all systems "go" and manager Dydyk, Soyuzivka's attractive emcee– bass-baritone volodymyr Kotkov, a Helsinki Accords the Trial of Mykola Walter Kwas zooming up and down the in-residence, opened the concert by recent emigre from Ukraine, who is Rudenko and Oleksiy Tykhy. knolls in his "Kwasmobile" seeing to welcoming the guests and the perfor– currently preparing for a nation-wide Such is "socialist democracy"! And last minute details, Soyuzivka opened mers. The 53-member band, neatly tour of Ukrainian centers under the so, seven years strict regime and five its 25th summer season during the attired in blue and white uniforms with tutelage of Dr. ihor Sonevytsky. years exile for the leader of the Ukrai– extended July 4th weekend by treating yellow markings, then treated the Mr. Kotkov, displaying a mellow yet nian Group to Promote the implemen– some 2,000 visitors to beautiful weather appreciative throng to Ukrainian mar– powerful voice, rendered some ten tation of the Helsinki Accord, the poet and a range of activities that had ching music, intertwined by some selections to the piano accompaniment and philosopher Mykola Rudenko; something for everybody. waltzes and folk tunes, under the baton of Dr. Sonevytsky, responding at the and ten years of special regime and five There were brisk tennis matches on of its conductor Wasyl Kardash. conclusion of the program to the repeat– years exile for a member of the group, the courts and splashing galore in the Wolodymyr Hentisz, Soyuzivka's ed requests of the capacity crowd with the schoolteacher Oleksiy Tykhy. Can Olympic-size pool during daytime. victor Borge, offered some humorous two encores. this be called a trial? No! There were entertainment programs vignettes on the .theme of the estate's in the entre-acte, Alec Chudolij People are tried openly and justly (if and dances in the evenings, the buoy– "25th", presaging an eventful summer demonstrated his accordion virtuosity they are criminals), but in this case antly ebullient atmosphere made doub– season to the delight of the guests. by playing Frosini's "Trieste" overture people have been tyrannized for many ly so by the sporadic bursts of fire- After the concert, the guests had a and a medley of Ukrainian melodies of years and afterwards secretly taken crackers that painted the starlit skies choice of dancing to the tunes of the his own arrangement. away for investigation, in a gangster- with colorful gems. "veseli Chasy" orchestra from Chicago Miss Dydyk, who emceed the pi^ like manner, 800 kilometers away from Saturday evening was reminiscent of on the terrace, or to the music of gram, opened the evening by reading their native city. For the trial they nineteenth century America as hun– Soyuzivka's own band inside the audi– excerpts from the Declaration of inde– chose a place (Druzhkivka) a hundred dreds of guests lined the "veselka" torium. There, joining accordionist Alec pendence in a tribute to America's 201st kilometers even further away. "Kra– Pavilion to hear an open-air concert by Chudolij and drummer Dorko Sen– birthday. The boy campers then moun– snyi Ugolok" ("Red Corner": a recrea– the "Baturyn" band from Toronto. chyshyn were vocalists Marusia Styn tion club), situated in a closed factory, The sun was still peaking from behind and Orysia Styn-Hewka. (Continued on page 10) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY IO, 1977 No. 157 Moscow Dissidents Say Arrests Odessan Art Historian Did Not Crush Helsinki Groups Sentenced to Three Years LONDON, England. - Several Committee for the Defense of Soviet members of the Moscow Helsinki Political Prisoners here on June 30th. LONDON, England-vasyl Barla– During the search of his quarters, the monitoring group said that the arrests The best indications of the continu– dianu, an Odessan art historian, was KGB agents confiscated several under- of persons associated with different ing activity of the group, wrote the sentenced last week in Odessa to three ground manuscripts, the Bible, "Zhyttia committees throughout the Soviet Uni– Moscow group members, are the docu– years in labor camps, reported the Sviatykh" (Lives of the Saints), and on did not crush the movement as a ments and declarations of the different Committee for the Defense of Soviet other religious publications. whole.