www.ukrweekly.com ^v^K^t^^v^c^-x^^p^c^v^^x^ 1 Remember Ukraine ? The Ukrainian Weekly Edition СВОБОДА SVOBODA УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ ЩОДЕННИК UKRAINIAN D А І LV VOL. LXXXIV No. 41 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20,1977 25 CENTS Racial Time Bomb Ticking Canada Scores Moscow in Soviet, Says Magazine For Recent Arrests MOSCOW, USSR.—Despite Len– ral government and how much better in's belief that he solved the nationality off their people have become since the problem in the Soviet Union and the 'advent of Soviet power,' " he wrote. Parliament voices current regime's overt attempts to Rus– With Russification being a man- sify the non– Russian populations, a re- made element of the nationality pro– "Disappointment Deep Concern" porter for the U.S. News and World blem, a natural process has entered the Report said that the nationality pro– picture, adding to the ruling party's blem did not disappear and will con– apprehension. OTTAWA, Ont.–The Canadian parliament, responding to appeals of the tinue to cause trouble for the Kremlin. Toronto based Committee for the Defense of valentyn Moroz and Amnesty ln– ternational, adopted a resolution Tuesday, February 15, expressing "disappoint– " A racial time bomb is ticking away Population Change inside the Soviet Union. The dangers it ment and deep concern" over the recent arrests of Alexander Ginzburg, Mykola Rudenko, Oleksiy Tykhy and Yuri Orlov by the Soviet authorities. presents deeply upset the Kremlin," Mr. Wallace wrote that non-Rus– wrote James N. Wallace in the weekly The resolution was proposed by ranking Liberal party member and former Mi– sians outbreed Russians at a rate of nister of External Affairs Mitchell Sharp and seconded by his colleague from the magazine's February 14th edition. 4:1. The most recent census, he said, in Mr. Wallace wrote the article, entitl– same side of the aisle, Gordon Fairweather. it was adopted unanimously. 1970, showed that 242.7 million people The resolution requested that the External Affairs Minister Donal Jamieson ed " 'Mother Russia's' Troubled Fami– live in the USSR, including 129 million 4 ly - in USSR, Minority Problems Just 'express to the Soviet government the disappointment and deep concern of the Russians. elected representatives of the Canadian people in parliament at the arrest of Won't Wither Away," as he was wind– Quoting experts in the field of Soviet ing up nearly three years of reporting Alexander Ginzburg, Mykola Rudenko, Oleksiy Tykhy and Yuri Orlov." demography, Mr. Wallace said that Rudenko and Tykhy are members of the Kiev based Ukrainian Public Group to in the Soviet Union. within a few years, or possibly it may He wrote that the nationality pro– Promote the implementation of the Helsinki Accords, while Orlov and Ginzburg have happened already, Russians will are members of a similar Moscow based group. The four were among the first blem is a two-faced one. On the one be the minority group in the USSR. side, wrote Mr. Wallace, there are the victims of what is generally viewed as a new crackdown on dissidents across the He said that certain experts feel that Soviet Union. already high tensions between Russia yet before the century runs out, the and the non-Russian republics, and on Slavic population of the Soviet Union, the other side is the steady decline of which includes Russians, Ukrainians the Russian population. and Byelorussians, will be outnumber– ed by the remaining population. Elder Hryhorenko Asks European Colonial Status Mr. Wallace said that by 1985 more than half of the work force will be non- Reds to Help Rudenko, Ginzburg While Lenin declared that the con– Russian. He foresees that this trend flict between nationalities has dis– will continue because new industries MOSCOW, USSR,–Petro Hryho– ropean Communists and Communist appeared, many current dissidents feel are being located in Central Asia. renko, former Soviet Army General Parties to press for the release of My– that the situation has worsened. The Soviet Army is also being used and now a leading figure in the Soviet kola Rudenko, leader of the Ukrainian "in fact, there is a constant stream human rights movement, called on Eu– (Continued on page 2) of complaints that the Kremlin's atti– (Continued on page 2) tude toward ethnic minorities is as 'co– lonial' as before the revolution," said Mr. Wallace. Protests,visits with Congressmen Russification is the official policy of the government and Party from Brezh– Cap Ukrainian Actions in Nation's Capital nev on down through the local secreta– ries, who have to implement Moscow's WASHINGTON, D.C.–The re- manded that the Kremlin release He also visited the office of Rep. decisions, said Mr. Wallace. cent KGB arrests and reprisals in Rudenko, Tykhy and Aleksander Dante Fascell (D-Fla.), chairman of At the 25th Party Congress, Brezh– Ukraine have prompted a series of Ginzburg. the Congressional Committee to nev said that local party secretaries defense actions by Ukrainian Ame– Leaflets were distributed to the Monitor Compliance with the Hel– must foster the idea of "Russian Big ricans in the nation's capital, which passers-by outlining the group's de– sinki Accords. Brotherhood," Mr. Wallace said. included a rally at the Soviet Embas– mands. "Local leaders also must stress, sy and visits to the State Department Mr. Olshaniwsky was interviewed Mr. Yasen turned over to Mr. especially when foreigners are present, and Congress by members of the by the Ukrainian section of voice of Friendly and Cathy Kosman mem– how much help they get from the cent– Helsinki Guarantees for Ukrainian America during the rally, and news bers of that Committee's staff, ma– Committee and other persons. of the action was subsequently prin– terial his committee received from Four days after the arrest of My– ted in The Washington Post and Ukraine about the repressions kola Rudenko and Oleksiy Tykhy in Baltimore Sun. against intellectuals there. HURl Countdown Kiev on Saturday, February 5, the in the course of the rally, Bohdan Ukrainian Student Hromada of Bal– Yasen, secretary of the Helsinki After the demonstration, timore organized a demonstration Guarantees for Ukraine Committee, Messers. Olshaniwsky and iwanciw outside the Soviet Embassy here. spent almost an hour talking with spoke with Rep. Christopher Dodd Taking part in the demonstration officials of the State Department (D-vonn.), Millicent Fenwick (R– were ihor Olshaniwsky, chairman East European and Soviet Affairs N.J.), Edward Koch (D-N.Y.) a of the New Jersey Committee for desk about the arrest of Rudenko Tobey Moffett (D-Conn.). the Defense of valentyn Moroz, and and Tykhy. Mr. Olshaniwsky also visited the Eugene iwanciw, UNA Supreme ИнНіїМпНПКі^йГЇ?Ніт office of Sen. Clifford Case (R– Advisor. visit Capitol Hill N.J.) Needed to endow the institute - 52,000,000.00 Protest Helsinki violations Mr. Yasen gave them a copy of the Kiev group's Declaration and All legislators were apprised of Raised as of The youths were protesting the Memorandum No. 1, and suggested the arrest of Rudenko and Tykhy, Tuesday, February 15 - 5840,718.00 Soviet violations of the Final Act of that the State Department issue a and urged to speak out on their be- statement on the arrests. half. Still needed - 51,159,282.00 the 1975 Helsinki Accords and de– THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20,1977 No. 41 Kremlin Warns West Not Racial Time Bomb... To Meddle in internal Affairs (Continued from page 1) as a Russificatory vehicle, said Mr. on is faced with an increase in nation– Hints at Future Arrests Wallace. He wrote that recruits from alistic activity over the past two or Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the three years. Punishment for nationalis– MOSCOW, USSR.-in response to the growing interest in the Soviet human Baltic are being sent to Russia for basic tic statements, even if they are just rights movement displayed by the American government and other Western states, training. stubborn opposition to Russification, the Kremlin issued a strong warning to the non-Communist world not to meddled However, these recruits cannot be is more severe that for ordinary policy its internal affairs. used for anything else but physical la– dissent. Using its traditional method of ex- widespread absence of ideological bor, because, he wrote, at least 25 per "This has been especially true in Lit– pressing an opinion through an editori– commitment and find sympathetic re– cent, and perhaps more than 40 per huania, where there is still is wide- al in the Saturday, February 12th edi– sponse among broader segments of the cent, of the Central Asian and Caucasi– spread opposition to being taken over tion of Pravada, the Soviet govern– population." an recruits cannot speak Russian. by the Soviet Union, and in Ukraine, ment also hinted that despite the West– Capping a series of articles in Soviet Biggest Force - Nationalism which is big and rich enough to consti– ern clamor arrests will continue. press describing alleged anti-democra– tute an independent nation," wrote tic tendencies in America, Pravada said Mr. Wallace wrote that nationalism Mr. Wallace. Claim Dissidents are Alone in the same editorial that human rights is probably the biggest force against He said that the reason the Kremlin can only be developed in a Socialist Russification. fears nationalism is because it will dis– Pravda said that the dissidents are system. "in theory, every one of the 15 eth– rupt its "blueprint for socialism." "unconcealed enemies of socialism," "The right to work, the right to edu– nic Republics has the right to secede and they "do not represent anyone or from the Soviet Union. But chances of Soviet philosophers, wrote Mr.