www.ukrweekly.com Ж І СВОБОДА JkSVOBODA І І УІМЇИСМГИЙ щод/нниж ^щрр' i/dtinMt gain UkrainiaENOLISH-LANGUACinE WEEKL Y EDITIOWeelclN v VOL. LXXXVI1. No. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST, 31, 1980 25 CENTS Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences holds seminar in Hunter by Iks Koznarska Casanova LEXINGTON, NY. - The seventh Slimmer seminar of the Ukrainian Free Academy of Arts and Sciences (UVAN) with guest lecturers Prof. Hryhoriy Kostiuk and former dissident Leonid Plyushch, was held here at Karpatia the week of August 17. Prof. Kostiuk spoke on Volodymyr Vynnychenko, and Mr. Plyushch's topic was national bolshevism. Prof. Kostiuk, literary scholar and history researcher, studied at the uni­ versities of Kiev and Kharkiv and has lectured at the University of Kharkiv as well as at Columbia University in New York. On the ocassion of the 100th anniver­ sary of Vynnychenko's birth, Prof. Kostiuk, director of the Vynnychenko archives, was invited by the academy to 'Щ^ШРШТ\тьт.''- In his lecture, Dr. Kostiuk offered a biographical-chronological survey of Vynnychenko's works, with special Ztooft uf/m emphasis on bis novels and psycho­ Participants of the UVAN summer seminar. Seated (center) are lecturers Leonid Plyushch and Prof. Hryhoriy Kostiuk. logical dramas. He analyzed Vynny­ chenko's literary development, stressing Prof. Kostiuk's chronological survey The final lecture was dedicated to a Dr. Kostiuk drew attention to the the particular historical context of served to bring out the development and discussion of the political activities of ongoing task as well as the financial Vynnychenko's major works as well as changes in Vynnychenko's social and Vynnychenko as an oppositionist du­ difficulties involved in the publication their place in Ukrainian literature. political thought as evidenced in his ring the tsarist regime, as leader of the of Vynnychenko's works which either He also dealt with the translation of literary works. Ukrainian Social-Democratic Worker's remain to be published or are out of Vynnychenko's works into Russian, Still another aspect touched upon Party, as head of the General Secreta­ print. To this end, a publishing fund German, French and English, as well as was the work of Vynnychenko as a riat during the period of the Central Ra- was initiated at the closing of the the staging of Vynnychenko's dramas in da, and asexiled politician. (Continued on page 10) Russia, Germany, Italy and Spain. painter. Details of Soviets' frame-up of Mykola Horbal are revealed music teacher in Borchiw, Ternopil couple's plans of emigrating to the foreign-language classes with Horbal, oblast. United States were thwarted from the moved into a building (14 Avenue of the Horbal, former political prisoner and outset. Anna Marchenko could not 50th Anniversary of the October Revo­ member of the Ukrainian Helsinki obtain the necessary dispensation status lution; apt.82) in the neighborhood group, was arrested on the evening of from work which is required in applying where Horbal's friends, the Stoko- October 23,1979, on the streets of Kiev for emigration to the Department of telnys, lived. Horbal was of course, and charged with "attempted rape" and Visas and Repatriation. wary that there could be an informer in "resisting arrest," according to Articles This department suggested that the the class but he did not suspect Batura. a 117 and 118, respectively, of the Crimi­ couple divorce and submit the necessary rather amorphous and indifferent type. nal Code of the Ukrainian SSR. Hor- documents separately. The couple Batura would use seemingly chance bal's case is yet another example of the rejected this proposition and proceded encounters on the street to invite recent Soviet strategy of fabricating to lodge a protest in this matter to the Horbal over. Horbal never visited her criminal charges against dissidents. Supreme Presidium of the USSR. and never paid any special attention to On the day of Horbal's trial, mea­ the matter. Those who staged this Horbal was first arrested in 1970 for scenario with the intention of exploiting having written a peom titled "Duma," sures were taken to ensure that his friends would be prevented from com­ the situation for their own ends un­ two copies of which were circulated doubtedly counted on his accepting the among his friends. For this he was ing to the trial. Vasyl Stus was sum­ moned by the police; Pavlo Stokotelny invitation from a single woman. But a sentenced to five years of strict-regime year went by and Horbal still could not labor in the Perm camps and two years' was allowed to emigrate on the eve of the trial; M. Kotsiubynska was told not exile which he served in the Tomsk (Continued on pace 6) - region in Russia. to leave work that day, etc. The only witness at the trial, therefore, was the Upon completion of the terms of his alleged "victim." Horbal was sentenced sentence, Horbal worked in Kiev as an on January 21 to five years of impri­ electrician. In March 1979, his apart­ NSIDE: sonment. ment was searched in connection with Ш Status report on Ukrainians in Mykola Horbal the arrest of Oles Berdnyk; many The texts of the two statements issued by the External Representation appear the Soviet Union and Eastern Eu­ NEW YORK - The External Repre­ documents were confiscated during the below. rope — page 7. sentation of the Ukrainian Helsinki search. Ш Christening of new UNA Branch Group has issued two reports detailing Horbal's wife, Anna Mykhailivna The frame-up 389 in Pennsylvania - page 5. the events that led to the arrest and Marchenko, lives in Kiev with their son The frame-up was planned in advance. В New Jersey UNA Day - page 8. sentencing of Mykola Horbal, a former Andriy (born June 21, 1978). The Pavlyna Batura, a student who attended THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST, 3), 1980 No. 14 Gleb Yakunin goes on trial Polish school authorities press for MOSCOW - Father Gleb Yakunin, The charges against the priest, who the Russian Orthodox priest and found­ has a 10-year history of religious dis­ membership in official stout groups er-member of the Christian Commitee sent, stem from his writing and distri­ for the Defense of Believers' Rights in buting religious material allegedly MUNICH - While strikes and food "What has happened to our scouting the USSR, went on trial here on August damaging to the Soviet Union. shortages plague the Polish economy, movement," asks the committee, "if 25 on charges of "anti-Soviet agitation reports have reached the West which during the summer camps children are It was learned that the prosecution describe new, subtle methods of discri­ forbidden to attend church services or and propaganda" under Article 70 of the will attempt to link Father Yakunin Criminal Code of the RSFSR, accor­ mination against Christian believers even to pray in their tents?" with questionable commercial dealings and their children. ding to the Associated Press. in religious artifacts. Another headmistress in Jasla expec­ Western reporters and a dozen of his Keston College reported that an ted her girl "guides" to join the party supporters were barred from the court. "Gleb acknowledged that he had appeaLby the Peremyshl Committee for after completing training The 46-year-old priest's wife Iraida written and disseminated the material, the Defense of Believers has been sent to was allowed to witness the proceedings, with others and alone, but he denied parents in Poland, urging them to resist "The Independent Polish Scouts" are and during a luncheon break told that he had any intention of subverting pressure and intimidation by the school independent only in name, states the reporters that her husband faced a the government," Mrs. Yakunin said. authorities and not to send their child­ appeal, since the Communists have re­ maximum sentence of seven years' "He testified that his intentions were ren to the officially approved scout moved all references to God from the imprisonment and five years' internal purely religious, Christian, in defense of groups. statutes, also deleting such terms as exile. human rights." "prayer," "faith," "purity," "love of The appeal states that Anna Derkacz, one's neighbor" and "altruism." the headmistress of School No. 5 in The movement has gradually become Неї transferred to Lviv prison Stalowa Wola, recently ordered the an instrument of atheist ideological teachers to enlist all children into the manipulation. After all, states Keston, This most recent communique about scouts without either the parents' or the Неї to have reached the West notes that it was the movement's founder, Ford children's consent. Those children who Robert Baden Powell, who said: "It the reason for Hel's transfer remains failed to bring in any money for the unknown. It goes on to say that Hel's would be better for the movement not to scout uniform have been punished by exist at all than to be without God." wife was granted a 20-minute meeting having their marks reduced, while with her husband and that Неї is in pupils at the secondary level have been An instruction manual for youth extremely poor health. threatened with expulsion if they do not leaders published last year states quite submit. clearly that "the Polish scouting move­ Неї was arrested in 1972 in a far- ment is based on Leninist principles." reaching crackdown affecting many Ukrainian intellectuals and sentenced "In such a situation," continues the to 10 years of labor camp and five years Soviets use Olympics appeal, "parents who are concerned for exile for so-called anti-Soviet agitation. the moral upbringing of their children It was the second time that Неї had been as evidence of can only send them to the Light and Life sentenced.