. ' - - - Address: The Ukrainian Weekly A PAST TO REMEMBER 81-88 Grand Street - A'FUTURE TO MOLD! Jersey City, NJ.. 07303 Tel.: (201) 434-0237 BICENTENNIAL OF THE (201)434-0807 SY0B0DA AMERICAN REVOLUTION ' (212) 227-4125 CENTENNIAL OF UKRA– Ukrainian National Ass'n УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ ЩОДЕННИК U K R A 1 Hi AN DA І L У INIAN SETTLEMENT IN Tel.: (201)451-2200 THE UA (212)227-6281 Sfo lkramum ttgrfdfl ^rtton РІК ЬХХХП. SECTION TWO No. 233 SVOBODA, THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, SATURDAY, DECEMBER ІЗ, 1975 ЦЕНТІВ 20 CENTS , 4. 233 YOLb LXXXH. 1 ' RUSSIAN DISSIDENT SCORES MOSGOWS RUSSIFICATION SAY PUUSHCH'S CASE TO BE REV. ROMANIUK DENIED BIBLE, CONTINUES PROTEST LABELS H1S COUNTRY A "PR1SON OP NATlONS" "POSITIVELY SOLVED" NEW YORK, N.Y. - The Defense actions on behalf cycle of repressions in the KBW YORK, N.Y. - A The 32-year-old Russian he is convinced of this fact BY MONDAY of Rev. Romaniuk began last Russian dissident, incarcera– dissident admitted in his let– because of his long years in Soviet Union does not sway year when several inmates of ted ІП the viadimir Prison, ter to Kosygin that his mea– prison. MOSCOW, USSR. - to much from the generally the Mordovian concentration charged that the Soviet gov– sage will , probably be fruit- Bukovsky, a former biology tiana Zhytnykova, wife of the accepted pattern. A Ukrain– camp ZhKh ЗЗ57І wrote an ernment is implementing a less. He said that "thus far, student, was first arrested in incarcerated Ukrainian dlsei– lan intellectual, a -student, a appeal in his behalf. policy of Russification, and no one has been able to 1963, because during a search :lent - cyberenticist, Leonid professor, a worker or even a "Why is Rev. Romaniuk im– that his country is a "prison bring down your transcenden– of his quarters, the secret Pliushch, was told by the Kiev priest writes a letter in de– prisoned? Because the local of nations." tal existence at the Kremlin police found a copy of Milo– visa office Wednesday, De– fense of someone who became authorities responded negati– "І МП a Russian. 1 am aah– heights to the fate of pou– van Dzilas"s "Now Class." He cember 10, that her husband's a victim of Soviet in justice, vely against him and because amed of my country, whose tical prisoners," but he added was sentenced to 18 months case would be "positively sol– and eventually he is also he stood up in defense of the political leaders pursue a po– that as a Russian he must ex– in a psychiatric asylum. ved" within five days, accord- swept up in the wave of KGB repressed Moroz? is that a licy of chauvinism, and where cercise his right to express He was again confined to ing to a United Press interna– crackdowns. criminal offense?" asked Da– Russification is equated with his views. an insane asylum in 1965 af– tional dispatch, citing disai– The arrest, harassment. nylo Shumuk, Sviatpslav Ka– official government policy," "1 am ashamed that Rus– ter he spoke up in defense of dent sources here. trial, imprisonment and tor– ravansky, Kurchyk, Saran– wrote viadimir Bukovsky in sia is a prison of nations, big– dissident writers Andrei Sl– The dispatch reported that j ture take their course, and chuk and Rev. Romaniuk in a letter to Soviet Premier ger than it was 60 years ago. nyavsky and Yuli Daniel. Two Soviet authorities said that every political prisoner in– Rev. Yasyl Romaniuk the November 2, 1974, letter. Alexei Kosygin last summer. And in prison people do not years later he was again ar– day that they are prepared to variably gets a taste of So– viet rehabilitative measures, religious studies except that Bible Confiscated The letter was recently live of. their own free will," rested and this time sentenced release Pliushch from the said Bukovsky,, stating that (Continued on p. X) Dnlpropetrovske psychiatric which are even more severe he graduated from the Mos– made public in the West by behind bars. cow theological seminary. This past summer Rev. Ro– the press service of tile U– asylum and allow him and his —;— family to emigrate from the The secdnd arrest and trial Soviet authorities searched maniuk was denied permis– krainian Supreme Liberation Rev. Romaniuk's home in the sion to read the Bible, accord– Council (abroad). USSR. of valentyn Moroz in Nov– Movnihan Chastises Soviet Pliushch has been confined Leonid Pliushch ember 1970 evoked a great village of Kosmach on May 4, ing to a letter he addressed to Bukovsky charged in the in the asylum for public outcry both in the free 1970. They confiscated several Pope Paul vi. He wrote a si– open letter to the Soviet WASHINGTON, D. C. - the Soviet intervention as a years. damaging drugs, said the dls– world and in Ukraine, and books, among them "The His– milar appeal to The World leader that the "civil jnar– Ambassador Daniel P. Moy– policy of colonialism. Nobel peace prize winner. patch. among those who protested tory of Ukrainian Literature" Council of Churches. riage" between Soviet au– nihan, head of the United in reference to the Soviet Dr. Andrei Sekharov, and On November 28th, the As– Moroz's confinement was Rev. by M. vozniak and "The His– in the letter to the Pope he thority and progress, promi– States Mission to the United Union, the Ambassador re- other Soviet human rights ac– soeiated Press first reported vasyl Romaniuk. tory of Ukraine" by M. Ar– wrote: "in protest against the sed by Lenin after the Bol– marked that more and more tivists have charged that the that Soviet officials have hint– Rev. Romaniuk, a 53-year- kas, religious literature and harsh and inhuman treat– shevik Revolution, is un– Nations, in an address to the "the ethnic conflict" is be– Paeon in Terris iv convoca– Kremlin authorities tried to ed that they will soon release old Ukrainian Orthodox priest, a 1934-36 collection of "Ne– ment of people possessing dif– successful. The, mtisrnational– coming a central political dilia" (Sunday). tion in Washington, D.C., destroy ,Pliuahch'e mind with Pliushch from prison. in a letter to the Soviet Ukra– ferent ideas, and against the ism they had in mind was not problem for the USSR. inian Supreme Court, ques– Most of the recent informa– banning of the .use of the attained, he said. Tuesday, December 2, made a Referring to the Zionist - і tion about Rev. Romaniuk, specific mention of the fact tioned the charges levied a– Bible, 1 will begin a hunger question, Mr. Moynihan said, DONATlONS FL gainst the historian-writer. which was received in the strike as of August 1, 1975." Bight to Opinion that the USSR was one of the "This was seen ss an Arab in– West, was made public by the co-sponsors of the recently itiative, but was it? Ukraine, "What crime did valentyn A follow-up letter in his de– ЦЮІАШШГ HATlONAL FUND Moroz actually commit," que– press service of the Ukrain– "Why should students in accepted U. N. resolution for one, was a sponsor of the ian Supreme Liberation Coun– fense, written by Russian Czeeho-Slovakia and Poland, which equated Zionism with resolution, which directly NEW YORK, N.Y. (UCCA Bound Brook, N.J. (collector ried Rev. Romaniuk. "He (Onntireed em p. 4) wrote highly principled and cil (abroad). and peasants in Lithuania and rascism. served an announced Soviet Special). — As of November M. Mostovy) - 3200; Bridge- Ukraine love me, a Russian," cause."' 30, 1075, a total of S58,921.49 port, Conn, (collector T. Sli– open articles, replete with The speech which centered concern for the spiritual well- asked Bukovsky, citing coun– on the question of detente, The Ambassador; went on was collected in the current vinsky) - 3180; Passaic– fund-raising drive for the U– Clifton, NJ. (collector S. Po– being of a nation, its fate, and Philly Moroz Committee tries where Russian oppres– criticized the Soviet Union for to say that the cause being 9 eion is particularly severe. its involvement in Angola on served is to discredit Zionists krainian National Fund, fr kora) - $150 in support of humanity and ^poJUghts "Uiman^Blgllts Week the side of the MPLA 1Гоега- and to deal with the national the first week of December' in additiozT'-fo-TthecbDeo– ІРЧЙее; Theman who express sed concern for a nation and sse tion movement, categorizing problems in the Soviet Union. (December 1-5), a total of tions submitted by the various PHILADELPHIA, pa. - The demonstrators carried 37,439.50 was received, which UCCA branches, direct dona– people was tried for subver– placards and distributed lite– COCA BOARD eion. it is worthwhile to re- Wednesday, December 10, brought an overall sum of tions are coming to the UC– marked the 27th anniversary rature to passers-by. A large MEETS TODAY 366,300.99. CA Central Office ss well. consider who actually was the Soviet U.W Ambassador Says subversive — valentyn Mo– of the Universal Declaration mobile billboard, with the For the first week of De– During the lest week the fol– of Human Rights, it was also NEW YORK, N.Y. - The cember, collections csme lowing sent donations of roz with his compassionate message "Torturing Ukrain– Ukrainian Congress Commit– HmmanHights^Realizi ІГinl SSH articles, or the ivano-Fran– the day of the premiere of the ians is Expensive" and "Buy from the following UCCA 3100: Bishop Basil H Losten Moscow Circus in Pbiladel– tee of America executive NEW YORK, N.Y. - in an. the USSR, but because "of branches: of Philadelphia; the UCCA kivske oblast court with its a Ticket to the Moscow Cir– board will hold.