-^^_ Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc.. ^ I I c, a fraternal non^ profit association | rainian WeiV Vol. LVI No. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 14. 1988 50 cents Lviv authorities Ukrainian Orthodox mark Millennium in spirit of unity and renewed hope crack down on by Marianria Uss event on August 5-7. tions here. and Chrystyna N. Lapychak This call for unity by Metropolitan "Let us be closer to one another, look public meetings Mstyslav Skrypnyk, primate of the each other in the eyes," said the metro­ SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J. - Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox politan before throngs of pilgrims by Bohdan Nahaylo The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Church, in a speech following Sunday's gathered for the Sunday moleben dedi­ USA culminated its year-long celebra­ climactic hierarchal divine liturgy and cated to the Millennium. "Let us be News has reached the West about tion of the Millennium of the Baptism moleben, as well as the weekend-long human beings with one another, one how the authorities in the western Ukrai­ of Ukraine with a call for unity among presence of the newly-arrived Rev. great nation. Let us be Christian in the nian city of Lviv have been using force Ukrainian faithful during a weekend of Vasyl Romaniuk, the former political full sense of the word regardless whether and administrative methods to prevent solemn divine liturgies, vespers, ban­ prisoner from Ukraine, were the high­ we are Baptists, Evangelicals, Catho- unofficial public meetings and unautho­ quets, seminars, a concert and social lights of the three-day national celebra­ (Continued on page 3) rized religious services. According to the latest reports, on August 4, local police forcibly broke up a gathering in the city called by the Initiative Group of the newly formed ' Democratic Front to Promote Pere- stroika - an umbrella organization representing several "informal" groups. Moreover, the authorities have also begun taking tougher action against members of the banned Ukrainian Catholic Church after a number of unauthorized religious services last month, which attracted several thou­ sand worshippers. For some time now the Ukrainian authorities have demonstrated their unease about the recent surge of inde­ pendent public activity in Lviv. It will be recalled that in June and July three mass public meetings were held in the city, the largest of which, on June 21, attracted an estimated 50,000 people. On July 10, some 15,000 people were present when the Democratic Front was formed. The response of the authorities was to attack the organizers of the meetings in the press, issue warnings and threaten Ukrainian activists with criminal proceedings. Flanked by Orthodox hierarchy, Metropolitan Mstyslav officiates during national Millennium celebrations at South Bound According to information issued by Brook, N.J. on August 5-7. To the left are Bishop Isaiah of the Greek Orthodox Church of the USA and the Very Rev. Frank the unofficial Ukrainian Helsinki Estocin. To the right are Metropolitan Wasyly of Canada, Archbishop Constantine of Chicago and Bishop Antony of New Union, the Lviv authorities did their York. utmost to prevent the meeting sche­ duled for the evening of August 4. Warnings were published in the local press pointing out that the gathering was prohibited, and the head of the Ukrainian writers' plenum reveals frustration and radicalization Initiative Group, Ivan Makar, was arrested at 9 a.m. on the day of the by Bohdan Nahaylo nian authorities. Ukraine in 1932-33. planned meeting. Nevertheless, a number of critical On the evening itself the militia On July 12, 1988 an important meet­ Reactions to the 19th party conference observations about the conference cordoned off the statue of Ivan Franko ing of Ukrainian writers was held in however, were also sounded. Academi­ where the meeting was to have taken Kiev at which a broad range of grie­ The purpose of the Ukrainian writers' cian Evgenii Primakov was criticized place. vances and aspirations of nationally- plenum was to discuss the tasks of the for promoting "some sort of artificial Several thousand people nevertheless minded Ukrainian intellectuals was Ukrainian literary community in the mechanical-administrative horizontal gathered in the surrounding streets and aired. light of the 19th Conference of the 'rotation of cadres,' " while the TV started singing patriotic songs. At this This joint plenum of the Board of the CPSU. The conference itself was hailed presenter Genrikh Borovik was attack­ point special riot police with dogs were Ukrainian Writers' Union (UWU) and as a landmark in Soviet life, not least for ed for proposing something along the let loose on the crowds. They are the Board of the Kiev Section of the its demonstration of "freedom of lines for a "non-national internationa­ reported to have beaten and injured UWU, detailed information about thought'' and the attention that was lism." people, dragged some of them by their which has been provided in the two devoted to the nationalities question. The poet Dmytro Pavlychko also hair or feet to waiting vehicles, and latest issues of Literaturna Ukraina, has The consensus was that Boris Oliynyk expressed concern that one of the seized cameras from anyone taking shed vaiuaDle iigm on the current state - the delegate from the UWU - had resolutions passed at the conference pictures. of national-cultural life in Ukraine - done his colleagues proud with his contained a reference to the "Soviet The "press release" issued by the on both its dynamics and the obstacles outspoken speech in Moscow. Mr. people," which he branded as a "Brezh- newly-formed press service of the that are still impeding it. Oliynyk had criticized distortions in nev-Suslov" concept that has been a Ukrainian Helsinki Union on August 5 What emerges is, on the one hand, the Leninist nationalities policy, called for a favorite with "various unifiers." The about the hi caking up of the meeting increasing radicalization of the Ukrai­ stop to the expansion of nuclear energy peoples of the USSR, Mr. PaVlychko indicates the shock and outrage which nian literary intelligentsia, and on iht in Ukraine, and called for the creation argued, may be united in a social and this action appears to have caused. It other, the growing sense of frustration of a "White Book" about the millions of political sense around the "socialist (CoEitinyad on pngt 2) with the unhelpful attitude of the Ukrai­ victims of Stalin's man-made famine in (Contliiyed ois:-page 4) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. AUGUST 14. 1988 No. 33 Meanwhile, the behavior of the wes­ Lviv authorities... tern Ukrainian authorities seems also to Lviv-based press agency (Continued from page 1) have dashed hopes that the Soviet states: government may move towards lega­ "The barking of dogs, screaming of lizing the Ukrainian Catholic Church. details harassment children, and pitiful cries of women According to a telephone interview conducted by the Associated Press with JERSEY CITY, N.J. - An up­ 8.) Roman Dovhan, born in 1938, provided the final brushstrokes to the one of the leading Ukrainian Catholic date on the arrests of Ivan Makar a Lviv resident, employed by the portrait: 'Democracy and Restructur­ activists, Ivan Неї, who is also based in and Yaroslav Putko, leaders of the Scientific Research Institute of Tele­ ing Ukrainian Style' ...Thus, on August Lviv, new police actions against his Initiative Group of the Democratic vision Systems in Lviv, fined 20 4, 1988, for the first time in many years, coreligionists "began after several Front to Promote Perestroika in rubles; blood was shed on the pavements of church services that attracted thou­ LviV,as well as thedetainments and 9.) Bohdan Yarko, born in 1931, of Lvf^, and together with it fell the last sands of people in July." arrests of 23 individuals in relation to Lviv, employed by an oil-products illusions of peopIe,who were treated by a public meeting in Ivan Franko enterprise in Lviv, fined 20 rubles; the authorities as if they were enemies." The activist said that on July 15, Park that was violently dispersed by 10.) Volodymyr Sokolyk, born in On August 6, the Ukrainian Helsinki between 15,000 and 20,000 people had authorities on August 4, was report­ 1950, of Lviv, unemployed, sen­ Union sent a protest telegram to gathered in a village in the Ternopil ed last week by the External Repre­ tenced to 15 days' imprisonment Mikhail Gorbachev claiming that what region to celebrate the millennium of sentation of the Ukrainian Helsinki under^Article 185 of the Administra­ happened in Lviv on August 4 "is the baptism of Kievan Rus. Further­ Group. tive Code of the Ukrainian SSR; reminiscent of the methods used by the more, on July 23, about 5,000 people most reactionary regimes in subduing The UHG's External Representa­ 11.) Yuriy Zinchuk, born in 1967, met to hold a service for the victims of their population." In it the Ukrainian tion released the information based of Lviv, a Komsomol member, an Stalinism. activists demanded that those "respon­ on an August 8 report by the newly- architecture student at Lviv's Poly- "There is without doubt a sharp sible for the anti-democratic pogrom" formed press service of the Ukrainian graphic Institute, sentenced to 15 increase in pressure on the Church, and be made accountable for their actions. Helsinki,Union in Lviv. days under Article 185; not only on the Church but on the whole (In an update on the events of August Mr. Makar, the 30-year-old head 12.) Yuriy Yanko, born in 1965, a society," Mr. Неї told the AP. 4 in Lviv, the Ukrainian Helsinki of the Initiative Group, which had Lviv resident, employed in the energy He revealed that "police had broken Union's press service reported via planned the August 4 public meeting industry, sentenced to 15 days of up services, prevented rural residents telephone on August 8 a list of 23 in front of the Ivan Franko monu­ administrative arrest under Article from reaching other villages for services persons who were known to have been ment, was reportedly detained at 9 185; and levied heavy fines" on those taking detained, arrested or fined by local a.m.