^--s Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association! rainian Weekly eo-o Vol. L No. 50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1982 "25 cents Popovych begins exile term Hrynchyshyn nominated bishop ELL1COTT CITY, Md. - Oksana for Ukrainian Catholics in France avych, 54, a dissident and member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, began VATICAN CITY - The Rev. Michael her exile term in October after com­ Hrynchyshyn CSsR of Saskatoon, pleting an eight-year labor-camp sen­ Sask., has been nominated exarch for tence, according to reports recently re­ Ukrainian Catholics in France by Pope ceived by tbfc Smoloskyp j^ftrainian In­ John Paul II; reported L'Osservatore formation/Service. Romano on November 27. Ms. Popovych, who is an invalid and The nominee for bishop will replace must gist Around on crutches, was Bishop Volodymyr Malanczuk CSsR, arrested in ^974. In addition to the who is unable to continue serving as labor-camp term, she was sentenced to apostolic exarch because of his age and five years''internal exile. She was poor health. charged with "anti-Soviet agitation and The Rev. Hrynchyshyn, was born propaganda." February 18, 1929, in Buchanan, Sask. She had previously served a 10-year In the family of John and Mary nee term between 1944 and 1954 for her Kresak, he was the 10th of 11 children. participation in the Ukrainian libera­ He attended the Redemptorist Fathers tion struggle. \--'' Juvenate-Minor Seminary in Roblin, A nurse by profession, Ms. Popovych Man., and entered the CSsR novitiate in lived in Horodenka in the Ivano- 194S and made his temporary pro­ Frankivske region before her arrest. fession on July 28, 1946. -. - v. The Rev. Michael Hrynchyshyn Unmarried, she supported her elderly -OB May 25,1952, he was ordained to- mfther,; who traslnlriO;"; "i1;^""' ' the priesthood by Bishop Maxim Her^ appointed professor of theology and Just prior to her arrest, Ms. Popovych maniuk, CSsR . Following ordination, prefect of CSsR seminarians at York- underwent a major operation which left he ifid three years of post-graduate - ton, Sask. her unable to' walk without the aid. of Oksamt Popovych studies at the Pontifical Institute for In 1965-67 he was pastor of Ss. Peter crutches. Although she was scheduled ing Group while in a labor camp. Oriental Studies, where he obtained a and Paul Church in Saskatoon, and in for a second operation to correct her Smoloskyp reported that Ms. doctorate in 1955. 1966-67 of St. Joseph's Church in condition, the surgery was cancelled Popovych was transferred last summer Upon his return to Canada, the Rev. Winnipeg. In 1967 he was appointed because of her arrest, leaving her a to a prison in Saranska for processing Hrynchyshyn's first assignment was as- superior and pastor at St. John the cripple. before being sent into exile. The exact rector of the Sheptytsky institute in Baptist Church, Newark, N.J., and In the summer of 1979, she joined the location of her place of exile is not Saskatoon, Sask. In 1957 he was ap­ remained in that capacity until 1972, camp-based Helsinki Accords Monitor. known. pointed rector and professor of theo­ when he was elected provincial superior logy at the Redemptorist Seminary in of the York ton Province of the Ukrai­ Meadow vale, Ont. In 1960 he was nian Redemptorist Fathers. Having appointed consult or to the provincial, completed three triennia in that office, Soviet filmmaker gets five years and superior of the provincial house in he was again superior and pastor at Ss. Winnipeg. Peter and Paul Church, Saskatoon, in JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Soviet direc­ Ukrainian nationalism for refusing to He participated in a general chapter 1981-82. tor Sergei Paradjanov, whose film dub his films into Russian. of his order in 1963, and was elected to a In December 1957, the apostolic "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" is Mr. Paradjanov lived in Ukraine and commission for the revision of the - visitator, Archbishop Ivan Bucbko considered a modern cinema classic, sent his son to a Ukrainian school. In CSsR Constitutions and Statutes. A appointed Father Hrynchyshyn pos- was recently sentenced to five years' 1965 and 1969 he signed petitions in year and half later he was again (СовШаші on pap IS) imprisonment, reported the Smoloskyp defense of persecuted Ukrainian in­ Ukrainian Information Service. tellectuals and dissidents. Mr. Paradjanov, now in his mid-SOs, Formal charges were brought against was arrested last February 11 in the him in December 1973, when he was Worldwide women's federation holds congress Georgian capital of Tbilisi. He was arrested and charged with currency reportedly charged with "associating speculation and homosexuality, a cri­ PHILADELPHIA - Sixty-six dele­ tary of the federation. with undesirable persons"— probably minal offense in the USSR. He. was gates representing nationwide women's In addition, there are nine directors foreigners. sentenced to five years' imprisonment organizations in the United States, on the executive board and six members and, shortly thereafter, another 10-year Canada, Belgium, Great Britain, West on the auditing committee, which is When "Shadows" was first released in term was tacked on. Germany, France, Argentina and Vene­ chaired by Daria Stepaniak (Women's the West in the mid-1960s, the Ukrai­ But, thanks largely to an international zuela met here at the fourth congress of Association for the Defense of Four nian-language film, based on Mykhailo campaign on his behalf, the director was the World Federation of Ukrainian Freedoms for Ukraine). Kotsiubynsky's book of the same name, released in 1977. The petition asking for Women's Organizations during the The congress got under way on won no fewer than 16 international film his release was signed by virtually every Thanksgiving Day weekend, November Thursday evening, November 25, with awards. great director in Europe, including 25 through 28. Opening ceremonies at which represen­ Its director was hailed as the heir Truffaut, Godard, Malle, Fellini, Vis- The delegates elected Dr. Maria tatives of the 16 member-organizations apparent to the great Soviet director conti, Rosselini and Antonioni. Kwitkowsky of the Ukrainian Gold of the World Federation of Ukrainian Sergei Eisenstein. The film was a Cross to serve as president of the work) Women's Organizations (WFUWO) haunting and lyrical interpretation of His last screenplay to be officially approved was "The Color of Pomegra­ federation. were present with their organizations' the mystical aspects of Hutsul mountain Also elected were: Alexandra Kowal- banners. culture. nates," in 1969. The film dealt with the huge massacre of Armenians by the sky (League of Ukrainian Catholic Friday's session was devoted to After the ouster of Soviet leader Turks in the early 1900s. It was instantly Women) and Helen Prociuk (Ukrai­ reports by outgoing officers, headed by Nikita Khrushchev, Mr. Paradjanov banned. nian National Women's League of president Lidia Burachynsky, and by fell out of favor with authorities, partly Prior to his arrest, Mr. Paradjanov, America), vice presidents. delegates from foreign countries. because all six of his films were in who was destitute, was living with his Nadia Malanchuk, Oleksandra That afternoon included a panel Ukrainian rather than Russian. sister in Tbilisi. Unable to find work, he Myndiuk and Anna Mazurenko were presentation on the topic of the The ultimate irony came when Mr. continued to churn out screenplays. All elected secretaries; Yaroslava Shere- WFUWO's contacts. The panel, con­ Paradjanov, a native Georgian of of them have been rejected by authori­ meta was voted treasurer; and Daria ducted by Mrs. Prociuk, covered topics Armenian descent, was accused of ties. Boydunyk was elected financial secre­ (Continued on pap 13) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1982 No. 50 Dissident profile. Embattled translator of Rus' chronicle commits suicide amid controversy Ivan Svitlychny: ELLICOTT CITY, Md; - Viktor The chronicle dates back to the'early Blyznets, a Ukrainian author of chil­ formation of Kievan Rus', which was gravely ill in exile dren's books, committed suicide last the first Ukrainian state. Most scholars year after his translation of an ancient agree that it pre-dated the formation of the campaign were Mykhailo Horyn, a Muscovite state, a position hotly Ivan Неї, Mykhailo Osadchy, Kievan chronicle touched off a furor Bohdan Horyn and Valentyn Moroz. among Ukrainian scholars, reported the disputed by the Soviets. Smoloskyp Ukrainian Information Moreover, Mr. Blyznets's transla­ Mr. Svitlychny was released in Service. tion, which was sanctioned by the April 1966 after serving eight months According to reports that have just official Ukrainian Writers' Union, was in prison. Shortly before his release, reached the West, Mr. Blyznets, 48, to be used as part of the over-all his name was expunged from biblio­ killed himself on April 2,1981,justover celebration of the 1,500th anniversary graphies and annual indexes of a month before the official celebration of Kiev. M pst scholars in the West agree Soviet literary periodicals. He had of the 1,500th anniversary of the found­ that the choice of 1982 as the year to become a non-person. ing of Kiev, the Ukrainian capital. commemorate the event had less to do Mr. Blyznet's translation of "Povist with historical accuracy than with Several months later, he authored vremennykh lit,"a 1 lth-century chronicle political considerations. a foreword to a collection of docu­ of the early history of Kievan Rus', was The theme of the celebration, which ments dealing with the 1960 closed severely criticized by Ukrainian scholars coincided with the 60th anniversary of trials of Ukrainian dissidents Lev — historians, researchers and linguists the formation of the USSR, stressed the Lukianenko, Ivan Kandyba and five — who charged that the author, a supposed historical unity of the Russian other members of the Ukrainian journalist by trade, was hopelessly and Ukrainian people, implying a Peasants and Workers: Party, who underqualified to undertake such a continuity between the establishment of were sentenced to terms ranging scholarly endeavor.