ИзНу) by the Ukrainian National Association inc., a fraternal non-profit assMiitiofl Шrainian WeeklУ vol. LVIII No. 13 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL I, 1990 50 cents Rukh will not become party On the legalization of the Ukrainian Catholic Church Leaders resign from Communist Party Unwavering Ukrainian Catholic hierarchs JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - The Popu– During a debate over thfe Rukh's lar Movement of Ukraine for Perebu– future, however, Dmytro Pavlychko, a dova, or Rukh, will not be a political USSR people's deputy and head of the break off quadripartite commission talks party, but will maintain its social and Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Language by Marta Kolomayets and it should be noted that although the political diversity, and remain a conso– Society, announced his and Rukh JERSEY C1TY, N.J. ^-Negotiations initial round of talks was broken off, lidating force in Ukraine, reported leader ivan Drach's resignations from of the Quadripartite Commission on this does not mean that the process of various sources last week. the Communist Party of Soviet Union, Normalization of Relations between the negotiation has been permanently Delegates to the fourth session of the according to the Ukrainian lndepen– Rukh's Great Council held on March 24 Orthodox and Catholics of the Eastern stopped. dent Publishing and information Asso– Rite in Western Ukraine in view of the in the Carpathian town of Khust voted ciation of Lviv. However, according to Andrew So– against a proposal by 22 activists to Legalization of the Ukrainian Catholic rokowski, a researcher for the Ukrai– Late reports from Radio Liberty's Church broke off on Tuesday, March nian Catholic Church in Rome, it does transform the mass organization into a Ukrainian desk on March 29 indicated political party. 13, when Archbishop volodymyr Ster– signify that the issues are difficult and that another popular Rukh leader and niuk of Lviv walked out of the last day's that their resolution will require long, USSR people's deputy, volodymyr meeting, reported the Ukrainian Catho– hard efforts by all sides concerned. Yavorivsky, also resigned from the lie Press Bureau based in Rome. The Ukrainian Catholic Press Bureau Ukrainians in USSR CPSU. That same day TASS announced "As long as the Russian Orthodox that three other Rukh members, vitaliy noted that the 14 points were developed Church is not ready to recognize the in cooperation with Cardinal Myroslav Donchyk, Serhiy Holovatvi and Olek– Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church as a demonstrate supportsande r Burakovsky were expelled from ivan Lubachivsky, head of the Ukrai– Church, an institution and a juridical nian Catholic Church, who resides in the party for signing a statement pub– body, and not just as a group of Greek of free Lithuania lished by Literaturna Ukraina on Rome. Cardinal Lubachivsky stated Catholics, and as long as the Quadripar– that he met with Archbishop Stephen March 8 proposing Rukh's transforma– the Commission is not ready to treat JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - At least tion into a political party. Sulyk, metropolitan for Ukrainian 10,000 people in Lviv, western Ukraine, essential questions, we do not see any Catholics in the United States, prior to demonstrated their solidarity with the During the extraordinary congress, need to meet any further," stated the the hierarch's departure for' Ukraine independent Republic of Lithuania on which was organized in Khust to mark document released by Archbishop and that they had come to a "good Wednesday, March 21, reported the the 51st anniversary of the declaration Sterniuk and six of his bishops on understanding about the Ukrainian Ukrainian Press Agency based in of independence by Subcarpathian Saturday, March 17. (The full text of Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine." London. Ukraine, Mr. Pavlychko maintained his the document, including the 14 points position in favor of a Rukh party and Archbishop Sterniuk's act of protest, The mass meeting approved resolu– read by the archbishop before he provided reasons for his and Mr. walked out of the Lviv-based meeting which was fully supported by the second tions in support of the Lithuanian member of the delegation, Bishop Drach's resignations. on March 13, is printed on page 3). people and their right to self-determina– Sofron Dmyterko, representing the tion, and called upon "workers' collec– "Favorable circumstances have The walk-out also invalidated any evolved today for the birth of (U– Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in tives and inhabitants of Ukraine to document which resulted from the kraine's) statehood, for the self-deter– Ukraine (and appointed by Archbishop adopt a conscious public position of negotiations, reported the Ukrainian mination of our people, for progress. and Cardinal Lubachivsky) was also solidarity with Lithuania." The appeal Catholic Press Bureau. No date has reflective of the wishes of his faithful, as to Ukraine's citizenry also threatened (Continued on page 2) been set for the second round of talks, (Continued on page 14) that if violence is used against free Lithuania, "we will reply with an organized political strike." Other reports about the Lviv demon– stration cited higher numbers of partici– pants: lnterfax gave the figure as "tens of thousands," while the information service of Sajudis, the Lithuanian popular reform movement, cited "scores of thousands." Statements of support for the inde– pendence of Lithuania were issued by Ukrainian groups throughout the So– viet Union, among them the Popular Movement of Ukraine for Perebudova, or Rukh, the USSR and Ukrainian SSR Deputies Club in the Lviv Region, and the Moscow Branch of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union, as well as its leader- ship in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Press Agency report– ed that rallies in support of the Republic of Lithuania were planned to take place throughout Ukraine on Saturday, March 31. However, the government of the Ukrainian SSR on March 28 in– structed local authorities not to permit such demonstrations. The government's directive was published in all the re- public's newspapers. Sf!ri^ Orest viokh, one of the Lviv deputies March. Seated in the first row are: Bishop Filemon Kurchaba, Archbishop volodymyr Sterniuk, Archbishop Miroslav elected as a candidate of the Democra– ^rusyn, secretary of the Congregation for Eastern Churches in the Yatican, Archbishop Metropolitan Stephen Sulyk of (Continued on page 16) Philadelphia, Bishop Sofron Dmyterko. in the second row, standing, are the Rev, lreney Bilyk, and Bishops ivan Margitych, Pavlo Yasyiyk, Julian voronovsky, Mykhailo Saprylm, ivan Semeday and Yosyf Holovadi, 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNOAY, APRIL I, 1990 No. 13 congress were several leaders of the Rukh... Ukrainian Helsinki Union, which is also A GLIMPSE OF SOVIET REALITY (Continued from page 1) considering becoming a party, among Following the removal of articles 6 and them Lev Lukianenko, Ууа- 7 from the USSR Constitution, circum– cheslav Chornovil and Stepan Khmara. An independent Ukraine: stances have been created for the Serhiy Koniev, the Rukh's vice- formation of a multi-party system in president, also expressed his opposition Ukraine and in the USSR in general. to the move. What are its prospects? The one-party system has suffered a in his address Mr. Lukianenko said by Dr. David Marples ample, in the original reform elaborated blow, and 1 believe today is the be– that the transformation of the Rukh by the commission under Leonid Abal– ginning of the epoch of a civilized multi- into a political party was "impos– Recent developments in Ukraine kin, the section on prices indicated that party society," Mr. Pavlychko was sible," even though the UHU president indicate that the question of economic those of certain essential products quoted by UNVIS as saying. was one of the 22 signatories of the sovereignty, which is scheduled to come would be set by the state, even when "Our statement, which was published March 8 statement in Literaturna into operation in the republic on Ja– "free" prices are permitted elsewhere in in Literaturna Ukraina, was signed by Ukraina. nuary 1, 1991, has acquired an impor– the economy. There is little indication 22 members of Rukh. it stressed the "it (Rukh) was created under the tant new political dimension. There is a whether the republic will replace the necessity of organizing an unscheduled circumstances of an absence of freedom growing consensus that Ukraine's eco– state in the Ukrainian case next year. Rukh congress, where the concept of of political activity and this has left a nomic and ecological problems are Moreover, the question arises whether Rukh as a political party would be mark on it," said Mr. Lukianenko. largely a result of an alleged "violation within what is called "economic sove– formed. Following the statement's "Those who were not afraid of of sovereign rights of the republic." reignty within a reformed union," publication, the Rukh secretariat held a persecution joined UHU. Although in short, the central authorities are certain Ukrainian industries might meeting where the idea emerged that Rukh was composed of people who said to have exploited Ukrainian re- remain under all-union jurisdiction on Rukh should remain as it is. However in were publicly active, they were those sources in a manner that has not only the grounds that they are essential to the Ukraine there is no other organization who wanted to avoid the fate of UHU been irrational and careless, but also has economy. Ukraine remains a vital that could give birth not to a profes– members. This psychological factor is brought little real benefit to Ukrainians. contributor to the Soviet gross national sional union, but to a political party. important, in determining one's place in Putting it simply, Ukraine has been product in several key economic sectors. "We should create a political party, the political structure of contemporary contributing far more to the state it is manifest also that if an important which could only be formed by those Ukraine it (fear) dominated, and not budget than it has received.