9 Published by the Ukrainian National Association inc., a fraternal non-profit association rainian Weekly vol. ivni No. 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23,1990 50 cents. І On the beat in Ukraine Supreme Assembly meets Six weeks at Rukh: the hectic hub UNA to open Kiev press bureau, of Ukraine's national revival create political action committee by Roma Hadzewycz not be postponed until the next regular by Chrystyna N. Lapychak Polish ТУ film crews to Ukrainian American physicians, from Chor– annual meeting of the Supreme As– JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - The Ukrai– sembly, in May of next year. KIEV– Multitudes of people jam nobyl clean-up workers to people's nian National Association's Supreme the narrow hallway of a run-down deputies on every level, the depart– She welcomed all 25 members of the Assembly, newly elected at this fra– Supreme Assembly, expecially the two-floor building on Muzeynyi ment itself gives meaning to the term ternal organization's 32nd convention, Provulok (literally, museum alley). Rukh, or movement in Ukrainian. newly elected members: Supreme Trea– met here during the weekend of Sep– surer Alexander Blahitka, and Supreme This dilapidated structure in the Other writers have described si– tember 15-16 at an extraordinary ses– heart of the Ukrainian capital houses milar scenes in the old Rukh head- Advisors Roma Hadzewycz, Anya sion convened by Supreme President Dydyk-Petrenko, Anne Remick, Wal– an unspecified number of public quarters, however they probably did Ulana Diachuk. organizations of every possible na– not have the pleasure of working in ter Korchunsky, Wasyl Liscynesky, ture that continue to evolve with the During its two days of meetings at the Pavlo Dorozynsky and vasyl Luchkiw. this environment as this writer did UNA headquarters, the Supreme As– burgeoning national revival in during the month of August. The supreme president expressed her Ukraine. sembly voted to open a UNA press expectation that these new members, Even after most of Rukh, includ– bureau in Kiev and to establish a UNA The uneven floor creaks as each ing the foreign contacts departm– who are known in the Ukrainian com– Political Action Committee (РАС), and munity, would bring fresh ideas for the footstep on the first floor takes you ent, which has custody of Rukh Press created a By-Laws Amendment Com– past several smaller and larger international, moved to a more good of the UNA. mittee that is charged with preparing a Also present at the meeting were: rooms, occupied by the juridical spacious building at a new location new UNA Constitution and By-Laws department of Rukh, the Popular on ShevchenkoBoulevard,it remains Supreme Officers Nestor Olesnycky, that take into account the changing vice-president, John Hewryk, director Movement of Ukraine, the organiz– the nerve center of all activity sur– needs of the UNA, the Ukrainian ing committee of a festival ce– rounding the extraordinary renais– for Canada, Gloria Paschen, vice-pre– community in the United States and sidentess, and Walter Sochan, secre– lebrating 500 years of Kozak heri– sance that has swept through this Canada, and developments in Ukraine. tage, and another committee or– large and colorful, and still Soviet tary; ganizing Dzvin, a culturological republic. As well, the session discussed the Supreme Auditors William Pastu– walk across Ukraine. Following the Amid the chaos, two young Ukrai– UNA's new annuity certificate, ava– szek, Anatole Doroshenko, Wasyl mazelike hallway one encounters an nian American journalists, irena ilable to members beginning on Oc– Didiuk, Stepan Hawrysz and Taras old abandoned refrigerator, which Chalupa and this writer, published tober 1, plans for the upcoming centen– Szmagala; and warns that one is approaching the the RP1 Fax Gazette, the only in- nial (1994) of the UNA, and strategies Supreme Advisors Tekla Moroz, magnetic field of Rukh s Department dependent English-language daily for broadening the organization's mem– Eugene iwanciw, Alex Chudolij, An– of Foreign Contacts. news service out of Ukraine. bership activity. drew Jula, Andrew Keybida, Helen Humbly tucked away in a tiny Launched last winter by Yaroslav The Supreme Assembly meeting was Olek-Scott and Walter Kwas. room in the back corner on the first Trofimov, a young Kiev journalism chaired by Mrs. Diachuk, the newly Zenon Snylyk, editor-in-chief of l floor, across the hall from the well- student, the RPlFax Gazettenowhas elected supreme president of the UNA, Svoboda, also was present. secured, well-equipped, well-staffed 50 subscribers among Moscow- who told the assembled supreme officers, in her opening remarks, Mrs. Dia– and well-lit office of Rukhs lnfor– based bureaus of North American, auditors and advisors that she had chuk noted the fast-paced developm– mation Center, the foreign contacts European and Japanese news wire called the extraordinary session in ents in Ukraine and the significance of department was, for most of August, services, newspapers, magazines, ТУ accordance with Article 33 of the UNA the July 16 Declaration of State So– l probably the most visited office in all and radio stations and embassies. By-Laws that empowers the chief vereignty of Ukraine. "All these chan– of Kiev. The only other daily news service executive to do so when cicsumstances ges and aspirations toward freedom From West German computer sales-coming out of Ukraine in English is warrant. Mrs. Diachuk noted that the and independence place on us all, all of men to British correspondents, from (Continued on page 14) matters before the assembly were sig– our members, an even greater responsi– nificant and pressing, and thus could (Continued on page 5) Lenin monuments' sordid secret is revealed by Bohdan Nahaylo Radio Liberty MUN1CH - During the last two weeks, the struggle for and against Lenin has intensified in Ukraine. On the one hand, the movement to expose the "real" Lenin and to remove his monuments has been growing and has spread from western Ukraine to Kiev, Chernihiv and Donetske. On the other hand, the Communist Party of Ukraine has organized meetings in Lviv, Kiev and Chernihiv to protest against the "defamation" (Continued on page 14) The recently elected Supreme Assembly of the Ukrainian National Association. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23,1990 No. 38 A GLIMPSE OF SOVIET REALITY Moscow Patriarchate breaks off talks with Ukrainian Catholics, vatican The "fourth wave": a look at ROME - Ukrainian Catholic lic, then the Church of the Trans- Church officials in Ukraine report that figuration must be given to the Moscow representatives of the Moscow Patriar– Patriarchate. The Orthodox also de– Jewish exodus from the USSR chate broke off meetings with vatican manded that they be given the me– by Dr. David Marples ties... We are leaving rather because of and Ukrainian Catholic representatives tropolitan's palace in the complex of the Radio Liberty national convictions. For a long time we in Moscow on September 14 when the Cathedral of St. George in order to use could not make up our minds. But when Catholics refused Orthodox demands the chapel in the palace. (Cardinal a swastika was daubed on the door of to give them Transfiguration Church Myroslav ivan Lubachivsky, the head Jewish emigration from the USSR our apartment, we realized that we were and the palace chapel of St. George of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, was today is part of a broader movement defenseless." І Cathedral in Lviv, and the Holy Resur– ordained in that chapel by Metropolitan that encompasses increasing numbers Earlier this year, a youbg school- rection Cathedral in ivano-Frankivske. Andrey Sheptytsky.) The Orthodox also of the Soviet intelligentsia, it is teacher wrote a letter to Sobesiednik, Keston College in England reported demanded that they be given the cathed– nonetheless a distinct phenomenon that which stated that she had been seriously that a press conference scheduled for ral in ivano-Frankivske, stating that has its roots in the dissidence of the offended when her classmates asfcgd her that day was postponed for four hours. otherwise they will have no cathedral in 1970s, and threatens to reach epic pro- in the 1970s why she was not leaving Journalists were then informed that Western Ukraine. portions in the near future, when the with them for israel. The woman, from agreement had been reached on four in the meeting, Archbishop Ster– new law on "free" entry into and exit eastern Ukraine, has a husband who points, but that the talks had broken from the USSR is expected to be specializes in micro-electronics and a 7- S^ niuk said that, in accordance with down over the issue of the allocation of Soviet law, the parishioners of all these approved by the USSR Supreme Soviet year-old daughter. They lived "well," church property between the Orthodox — possibly even in the fall session. she stated, but in April 1989, there were churches had requested that they now and the Ukrainian Catholic Churches. function as Ukrainian Catholic.He Our focus here is predominantly on rumors among Jews that a pogrom was The Orthodox side had demanded the the situation in Ukraine, though the imminent. These rumors resurfaced in noted that there are few parishes in return of several churches already taken western Ukraine attached to the problems cited apply generally through- the spring of 1990, at which time the over by the Ukrainian Catholics. out the Soviet Union, it is posited that Moscow Patriarchate because this was Russian Pamiat Society declared that The Ukrainian Catholic Church's for the Soviet Jew the present situation since Jews had been the main parti– the will of the faithful. The archbishop appears intolerable for both economic Press Bureau in Rome reported that said that under these circumstances, cipants in the crimes of the Stalin era, Archbishop volodymyr Sterniuk has and political reasons.