www.ukrweekly.com І СЛ r- > Г" - ся > on Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association! X < л 1- гол rainian Weekly О -^ Vol. LI No. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 15, 1983 125 cents Lviv nun beaten to death Metropolitan Mstyslav: let us unite AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands - attacked and beaten to death. The A young Ukrainian nun was murdered incident occurred in September 1982. in prayer for famine victims last fall in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv by a gang of vigilantes from the Because the Ukrainian Catholic Archpastoral letter of His Beati­ announcing that the 'Village had died Komsomol, the Communist youth Church was officially dissolved by an tude Metropolitan Mstyslav on the out." In the torments of death by league, reported the Smoloskyp Ukrai­ illegal synod in 1946, Ms. Shwed had to occasion of the 50th anniver­ starvation that winter, almost 7 nian Information Service. conduct her religious activities in secret. sary of the 1932-33 Great Famine in million Ukrainians perished. The According to reports reaching the She was employed at a television factory Ukraine. remembrance of this heart-rending West, Maria Shwed, 29, a member of in Lviv. event covers this year's feast of the outlawed Ukrainian Catholic Smoloskyp reported that Ms. Shwed`s Dear and beloved brethren! Christ's Resurrection with a black Church, was walking with a priest, veil. murderers were part of a Komsomol Christ is risen! identified as the Rev. P. Pyrishko, when vigilante group known as "druzhyn- In this frenzied century, day after As is known, the greatest concen­ they were stopped by a gang of youths. nyky." The formation of such groups is day, human blood in ever wide rivers tration of our people beyond the When she tried to flee with a bag said to encouraged by authorities to weed out flows into the ocean of the future, borders of Ukraine is found in the contain religious literature, she was and combat anti-socialist elements. and the tears of mothers and widows United States of America. Here, for ascend as vapor to heaven often over 30 years exists the spiritual clouding it with thick grey clouds of center of Ukrainian Orthodox in the despair. A day does not go by when free world, a center which divine Soviets bar Sakharov exit the earth, tired, burned with fire and providence has deigned me to head mercilessly harrowed with steel, does for already over 30 years. This MOSCOW - The Soviet press Bonner, had told Western reporters that not receive in its bosom new bodies center is found in the state of New agency TASS announced on May 11 the Sakharovs were prepared to emi­ and the bodies of thousands of new Jersey, on an area of land which that Soviet physicist and human-rights grate and end the "nightmarish exis­ . omeyisand thosewJbo.enduresjjffer-.. .CQy,cj-s over. 100. acres. On this Jand activist Andrei Sakharov will not be tence" they had been living since the 61- ing in this contemporary brutal age. our devout people erected the magni­ permitted to emigrate because he year-old nuclear physicist was banished To this immolation, divine provi­ ficent St. Andrew's Memorial Church possessed state secrets. to Gorky in 1980, reported The New dence has again called the Ukrainian in prayerful commemoration of The announcement came a few hours York Times. nation in order to test its devotion to those who endured martyrdom and after Dr. Sakharov's wife, Yelena Her remarks indicated that Dr. God and its love for humanity in suffering for Ukraine and in remem­ Sakharov, considered to be the father of general and the Ukrainian person in brance of the victims of the Great the Soviet hydrogen bomb, was ready to particular. Famine. foresake the hope of returning to a In every century of the life of our Those who donated for the acquisi­ AHRU readies petition normal life in Moscow and had re­ nation, history has etched upon its tion of the land and the construction luctantly chosen to emigrate. But the tablets "Days of Judgment," days of of the memorial church and every­ authorities promptly quashed the no­ sorrow and lamentation, painful thing which is found in this center on Great Famine tion that he would be allowed to go days of profound sadness. So it is (the theological seminary. Home of NEWARK, N.J. - Americans for abroad. written in the history of the Jewish' Ukrainian Culture, administrative Human Rights in Ukraine (AHRU) has "A groundless hue and cry around the nation whose prophets foretold the buildings, archives of ancient and prepared petitions to President Ronald name of Sakharov has been raised in the coming of the Redeemer — Christ 20th century documents, the museum Reagan with a plea to study and present West," TASS said. "There have been the Savior, the Son of God to the with its artifacts dating back as far as the facts to world communities through reports, instigated by the bourgeois sinful earth. Let us recall the lamen­ the 12th century and the library) were national and international channels media, about Andrei Sakharov's tation of the several thousands of devout Ukrainian patriots, not only about the Great Famine of 1932-33, the supposed trip abroad. Jewish mothers the lives of whose Orthodox but of other Christian crime against the Ukrainian people "It has been repeatedly pointed out in children were forcibly shortened by denominations as veil. perpetrated by Stalin and his Commu­ the Soviet press that, by virtue of his the ruling despisers of people. In addition to the church-affiliated nist government. scientific activity, Sakharov is a person This year's Pascha in the life of the central institutions, a large cemetery These petitions will be available for possessing important state and military Ukrainian nation and the faithful of developed around the memorial signing at the AHRU table at the secrets. For this reason and in the the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is church, a cemetery furnished with Ukrainian Orthodox Center of St. (Continued on page 16) marked with the inexpressible pain­ love and care in which repose several Andrew in South Bound Brook, N.J., ful remembrance of that which oc­ thousand of our deserving people — on Sunday, May 15, during the me­ curred only 50 years ago. In 1932 and men and women of letters, artists, morial gathering commemorating the 1933, Moscow, crimson with the people of various professions and the victims of famine on its 50th anniversary. human blood which it shed through greatest in number former village Americans for Human Rights in the ages and totally brutal in its farmers whom fate carried beyond Ukraine is appealing to all concerned treatment of the nations which it the sea and ocean. Among those who people to sign the petitions to President enslaved, guided only by designs of repose here are those who survived Reagan, thereby indicating their deep plunder, resolved to erase from the the suffering of starvation or the sorrow for innocent famine victims :nd face of the earth the Ukrainian children and grandchildren of those their outrage at this crime. To obtain nation as a separate, independent who perished during the years of the petitions and information please write nation-state. Guided by this goal, Great Famine. Yearly on Providna to: Americans for Human Rights in Moscow confiscated by force from Nedilia (St. Thomas Sunday), 5,000 Ukraine, 43 Midland Place, Newark, the Ukrainian farmer his ancestral to 6,000 people — relatives, Inends N.J. 07106. land, a land made holy by his bitter and acquaintances of the departed — The text of the petition follows. sweat, a land which through the ages gather here to remember them and "The Ukrainian communities in the was the strongest fortress of the pray for the repose of those dearest to free world are commemorating the Ukrainian nation and, at the end of them. victims of the Communist planned and the year 1932, robbed from him The prayerful remembrance of the executed far.-.ine in Ukraine 1932-33 everything which the generous U- memory of the victims of the Great during which 7 million people perished. krainian earth had borne him during Famine will occur in all countries of "On this 50th anniversary we urge that very abundant year of harvest. the free world on Sunday, May 15. you to direct the United States delegate " As a consequence of this, on The principal requiem services will to present the facts about the famine in Pascha of 1933, black banners al­ occur on this Sunday in the Memorial Ukraine to the Human Rights Com­ ready flew over Ukrainian villages. (Continued on page 14) mission of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland." Dr. Andrei Sakharov THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 15, 1983 No. 20 Tensions continue to mount in Poland Dissident profile. WARSAW - Events in strife-torn time that the old government unions Poland last week were marked by the had challenged the authorities. continued harassment of Solidarity The appeal read in part: "Union Boh dan Chuiko: leader Lech Walesa, renewed pressure organizations that are now being built on the government to instate free unions do not have wide public support and the invalid, OUN-UPA member and criticism of a martial-law regime current method of carrying out the law - official by the Soviet Union. indicates a desire to monopolize unions Early in the week, it was reported that under the patronage of the state em­ JERSEY CITY. NJ. - Bohdan ployer." Chuiko, a 64-year-old invalid, is Mr. Walesa had been taken into custody on two occasions and released.