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Woman's letter describes Madrid Conference delegations agree to recess
one family's hardships andMADRID - Western, Soviet-bloc
neutral delegations at the dead­ Poland on December 13 exacerbated informal group including the Soviet
under Soviet rule locked Madrid Conference to review the situation, particularly after Western Union, Austria and the United States
implementation of the 1975 Helsinki foreign ministers — including Secretary sought a way out of the impasse and
Accords on human rights and security of State Alexander Haig - came here finally succeeded on March 8, accord­
ELLICOTT CITY, Md. - A letter
that describes the adversity suffered by
one Ukrainian family from Volyn has
made its way to the West via the
Russian samizdat, reported the Smolo-
skyp Ukrainian Information Service.
It was written, in 1980 and titled "The
Right Jo Have No Rights" by a woman
named H. Sbyliuk. Following are
excerpts that describe the hardships this
woman has experienced in her life:
"When I was born in 1950, my father
had already finished what he called the
'life institute' — the years he spent in
prisons and labor camps. I had not even
reached the happy moment of knowing
a father's love when he was once again
thrown behind these 'academic walls'
for two additional years," she writes.
MirShyKuk goes oh to describeher'
mother's painstaking efforts to get the
Soviet government to release her hus­
band. At this time, Ms. Shyliuk's older
sister died of tuberculosis at age 15. Her
father was not granted permission to
attend the funeral.
She writes:
"When my father was leaving for
prison he said good-bye to five of us;
returning he was greeted by only four.
The traumas we ail lived through
affected the health of the entire family. I
remember my father with a head of gray
hair, he was not yet 40.
"My mother also had grey hair from
her worries, at the age of 40. My oldest
brother, who carried the weight of the
family on his shoulders had a head of
grey hair at some 20-odd years of age.
These, are the memories of my child­
hood.
"An individual lives for the dream,
and faith of better things to come in the
future. This hope gives one faith and
strength to get though the daily hard­
ships and obligations and grief. It
seemed to be that I was the only one
who lived like this, for I never ventured
out among people."
Ms. Shyliuk notes that her childhood
passed quickly, soon it was time to start
earning her own way. She got a job -
physical labor — a job that even a
strong adult male would have trouble
with. "To tell the truth, I immediately
saw the 'equal rights' of men and
women, in words, deeds and muscles.
What cant a person get used tol Time is
(Continued co pap 16)
INSIDE:
Ш News and views - page 6.
Ш "Towards a united Ukrainian
front In America" by Dr. Myron B.
Kuropas - page 7.
Ш Panorama by Helen Perozak
Smindak - page 9.
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THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 1 4 , 1 9 8 2 25 cents
The imposition of martial law in Over the weekend of March 6-7, an
in Europe agreed on March 8 to recess last month to chastise the Polish mili­ ing to The Times. The West agreed to
until the fall following a session on tary government and the Soviet Union one more week of talks in Madrid, while
March 12, reported The New York for its role in the crisis. the Soviets agreed to an Austrian pro­
Times. posal that the last session be March 12.
The Soviet Union responded at first
The decision to recess was agreed by resorting to procedural maneuvers to
upon when the United States and its block Western speakers, a strategy that Although the date of reconvening the
allies refused to accept a further work­ caused a furor on February 9 when the talks in the autumn has not been
ing agenda to underscore their conten­ chairman of that day's session, Poland `s decided, it seems likely that all sides will
tion that the military repression in Wlodzimierz Konarski, tried to stop agree on November 9. Some diplomats
Poland made meaningful negotiations debate by recessing the meeting before hope, The Times said, that during this
here, impossible at this time. all the scheduled speakers had address­ "cooling-off period" the international
climate will have improved enough to
Representatives of the 35 signers of ed the gathering.
the Helsinki agreement have been Later, the Soviets maintained that make further discussions here feasible.
Others suspect that the current dead­
meeting here for 16 months to try to only the Warsaw Pact countries were
broaden the provisions on human interested in businesslike negotiations, lock will recur.
freedoms, economic exchanges and the and accused the NATO allies of trying The Madrid review meeting has run
peaceful resolution of international to sabotage the meeting. far longer and at times been far stormier
disputes. than its predecessor held in Belgrade in
Sines the conference began, pjogress After NATO nations refused to 1977. But its cumbersome consensus
in these areas has been sluggish, due in participate in drafting sessions, it operating procedure has prevented it
became evident that the conference
large part to such factors as the Soviet from breaking up, particularly as
invasion of Afghanistan and its confine­ would have to be adjourned. neither East nor West wants to be
ment of dissidents and Western attacks On Friday, March 5, emphasizing blamed for such an event.
on these and other violations of the their impatience with the situation,
original pact. NATO nations withheld agreement to "We seem to be creating the Helsinki
The conference was further hindered an agenda for this week's sessions. Since forum as a permanent institution," The
the Helsinki ground rules require con­ Times quoted one West European
by Soviet intransigence on accepting a
compromise solution on a post-Madrid sensus among all 35 participants, that diplomat as saying. "I think we have to
security conference put forth by the session lasted until 4 a.m. Saturday, decide whether or not this is a good
neutral and non-aligned countries. then resumed on March 8. thing. Maybe it is a good thing."
KOR founder: Solidarity "underestimated" party
BONN, West Germany - Adam activism, scorns the official justifica­ to arguments over unknportant
Michnik, co-founder of the Polish tion for martial law - that Solidarity things; there were many false con­
dissident group KOR, said that his sought political power. flicts in it," he writes. Solidarity
main regret about Poland's IS "Solidarity had neither a shadow itself, he goes on, was "a colossus
months of freedom seems to be that cabinet nor a program for a coup with feet of steel, but with hands of
the Solidarity trade union was too d'etat," he says. clay."
"naive" and underestimated the The real cause of the putsch, he Looking at the weaknesses of its
Polish Communist Party. argues, was the fact that the "exis­ adversary, however, Solidarity for­
The veteran dissident and historian tence of an independent and self-run got that the "Communist system in
made his remarks in the first essay institution supported by the people Poland was a colossus with feet of
smuggled to the West from his subur­ was unacceptable" to a ruling class clay, but with hands of steel." In Mr.
ban Warsaw cell which appeared alienated from the people. Michnik `s view, Solidarity forgot
in the March 8 issue of the German Unlike many Western analysts, that despite all the weaknesses, an
magazine Der Spiegel. The essay was Mr. Michnik does not feel that the "apparatus of force, untroubled by
the subject of a story by Elizabeth union simply went too far or too fast democratic corrosion, can be a useful
Pond in the March 9 issue of The with its demands for greater social, instrument in the hands of a dictato­
Christian Science Monitor. political and economic freedoms. He rial power, especially in the hands of
The aim of the December "putsch," describes Solidarity as a "self-limit­ a dictatorship that finds the floor
writes Mr. Michnik, was a "classic ing revolution." burning under its feet."
counterrevolution against the work­ Moreover, Mr. Michnik is said to Mr. Michnik draws faint optimism
ers in the name of defending the have urged caution on Solidarity, a from the conviction that brute force
conservative interests of the old position which ultimately led to a can never "wipe out the memory of
regime." split with the more radical Mr. 15 months of freedom from the
In 1976, Mr. Michnik, along with Kuron. memory of men." He also feels that
activist Jacek Kuron, formed KOR In the essay, Mr. Michnik acknow­ moral support from the West is
- the Committee for Social Self- ledges that a major impediment to important, but that economic sanc­
Defense - to defend workers jailed
during the anti-government up­
the Solidarity movement was that it
had to overcome a social tradition
tions against Poland should not have
been introduced.
risings that summer. When Solida­ which for 37 years was "far removed Finally, Mr. Michnik wishes his
rity was formed in the summer of from democratic institutions." In this comrades "much strength to be able
1980, KOR activists acted as advi­ environment the spontaneous social to step through the darkness that lies
sors to the union's leadership. movement'of Solidarity had no clear between despair and hope. And also
In his essay, Mr. Michnik, who has concept of how to proceed. much patience, to learn the difficult
been jailed 32 times for human-rights "It let itself be easily provoked art of forgiveness."
2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY
Polish government actions aimed
at intimidating Catholic Church
WARSAW - Polish authorities
recently sentenced one Catholic priest
for slandering the government and
charged another in connection with the
lulling of a policeman in what appears
to Ье-ал attempt to intimidate the
country's powerful Catholic Church,
the most vocal critic of martial law.
The Polish press agency PAP dis­
closed last week that the Rev. B.
Jewulski was sentenced to three and a
half years' imprisonment on a charge of
"slandering Poland's system and autho­
rities."
The charge stems from a sermon
delivered on December 20, one week
after martial law was imposed. It was
the first known instance in which a
priest has been sentenced to prison
under martial law.
In the other case, a priest identified
only as "Sylwester Z." was arrested in
connection with the shooting of a
policeman on a streecar in broad day­
Lidia Vashchenko thanks Reagan
for letter supporting family
ORANGE, Calif. - Lidia Vash­
chenko, the 31-year-old Pentecostal
who two months ago was removed from
the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and
placed in a Soviet hospital after her
health had deteriorated because of a
hunger strike, wrote a letter on
February 11 to President Ronald Rea­
gan in her hospital room thanking him
for his letter supporting her family and
their plight, reported Keston News.
In the short letter, Ms. Vashchenko
hinted that she may go on another
hunger strike if Soviet authorities
continue to stonewall her efforts to gain
emigration rights for herself and mem­
bers of her family.
In July 1978 five members of the
Vashchenko family along with Maria
Chmykhalov and her son Timothy
rushed passed Soviet guards and sought
sanctuary in the U.S. Embassy. Until
recently, they had lived in a small
basement room while the United States
and the Soviets could not agree on how
to resolve their dilemma. They have since
been given another room.
In December Ms. Vashchenko and
her mother Augustina went on a
hunger strike to draw attention to their
plight and their desire to emigrate. On
January 30, Ms. Vashchenko was taken
from the embassy to Botkin hospital
after her weight had dipped below 100
pounds.
She was released from the hospital on
February 11 and has since joined
relatives in her hometown of Спег–
nogorsk, Siberia. Soviet officials are
expected to rule later this month on
emigration applications by Ms. Vash­
chenko. The other Pentecostals remain
in the embassy, with Soviet authorities
insisting that they must first return to
Siberia before emigration procedures
can begin.
The full text of Ms. Vashchenko's
letter, which was translated from the
Russian by her sister Liuba on Feb­
ruary 12, to President Reagan appears
below.
Dear President:
I would like to thank you for your
letter addressed to my mother and me.
I was a little doubtful about the text
of your letter but after I heard it through
Voice of America I was glad that it had
been publicized. I hope, as well, that
you will try to help my family in the.
question of emigration, and I ask you
light. The New York Times reported
that suspects are-generally not identi­
fied in Poland until sentence is passed.
The Polish press reported that a
revolver said to have been used in the
killing was found in the parish home of
the priest.
Two other men accused of actually
carrying out the killing were also
apprehended, according to a spokesman
for the Interior Ministry. The official
announcement said that "the two acted
in an organized gang of several people,"
The Times reported.
The authorities have said that the
policeman, Sgt. Zdislaw Karos, was
shot in cold blood by two men who
jumped on the streetcar and then
escaped in a red Polish Fiat. Unofficial
versions assert that the policeman was
intoxicated, became involved in a brawl
with passengers and was shot with his
own gun during a tussle.
about that very much.
I am leaving for Siberia, to our
children (her younger brothers and
sisters — Ed.j and 1 want to continue my
appeal to emigrate from there. But I am
not sure what actions I can make there
except the hunger strike which I plan to
do if the question of emigration of my
family is delayed.
I accepted this action to go back to
Chernogorsk because our children need
moral support. I ask you please do not
forget about us when you speak with the
Soviet government.
Please accept the words of gratitude
to you, your government and to the
people of your country from me.
Kentucky Senate
scores Rumania
FRANKFORT, Ky. - The Ken­
tucky State Senate unanimously voted
on February 17 to recommend to the
U.S. Congress and President Ronald
Reagan that Rumania Is "most favored
nation" trade status not be renewed
when it comes up for annual review this
year, reported East/West News.
The legislature also recommended
that the U.S. Helsinki Commission do
all it can to block the selection of
Bucharest, Rumania's capital, as the
host city for the next Helsinki Accords
review meeting, the international forum
which oversees implementation of the
197S human-rights and European secu­
rity agreement.
Introduced by State Sen. Gene Huff
(R), Kentucky Senate Resolution 31
cites the present widespread religious
rights violations in Rumania, stating
that human-rights transgressions must
be considered in U.S. relations with that
country.
Religious rights abuses mentioned in
the resolution include the recent slander
campaign conducted in Rumania a-
gainst leading Baptist pastors, the arrest
and imprisonment of Bible distributors,
and the widely reported use of torture
— violent beatings and electric shock
treatments - during interrogation
sessions.
A similar measure has also been
introduced in the Kentucky House of
Representatives by State Rep. Billy Ray
Smith (D).
SUNDAY, MARCH 14,1982
Authorities seek to improve study
of Russian language in Ukraine
by Dr. Roman Solchanyk
The latest issue of Russkyi yazyk і
literature v shkolakh Ukr.SSR, a
specialized journal for teachers of the
Russian language in Ukraine, carries
a short report on a recent session of the
Collegium of the Ukrainian SSR Minis­
try of Education that met to evaluate
the campaign to improve the study and
teaching of Russian in the republic.
According to the report, the collegium
was specifically convened to examine
progress in the implementation of the
resolution "On Measures for Further
Improving the Study and Teaching of
the Russian Language in the General
Education Schools and Pedagogical
Education Institutions of the Republic"
adopted by the Ukrainian SSR Minis­
try of Education on October 31, 1978.'
Since the adoption of that resolution,
problems associated with the teaching
of Russian in the republic's schools have
been discussed at conferences convened
by a majority of Ukraine's 25 oblasts,
and in 1980 a republican-level scientific-
practical conference was organized to
discuss "Ways of Improving the Prepa­
ration of Teachers of the Russian
Language in the Higher Educational
Institutions of the Ukrainian SSR."
Beginning in 1980, the teaching of
Russian was introduced in preparatory
classes and in the first grades of schools
with Ukrainian as the language of
instruction; the number of hours de­
voted to Russian-language study has
been increased in all general education
schools; and by the end of the current
five-year plan the number of schools
offering intensive study of Russian
language and literature is scheduled to
increase almost threefold.
In the area of preschool eduction, the
Ministry of Education has defined
curriculum requirements for the teaching
of Russian in preschool institutions,
and the requisite changes have been
made in the "Program and Methologi-
cal Directives for the Upbringing of
Children in Preschool Institutions."
The practice of dividing pupils into
subgroups for more effective Russian-
language instruction had been insti­
tuted in the rural schools of Ukraine
already in 1974. Now it is being gra­
dually introduced in the first three
grades of all non-Russian schools and in
grades four through eight of urban
schools where the language of instruc­
tion is Moldavian, Hungarian or Polish.
It is envisioned that by 1986 the divi­
sion of pupils into more compact
learning groups will be completed in all
grades.
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publication in Kiev in 1980.
Citing all of these initiatives, the
recent report states that "in the main,
the measures are being carried out
successfully." Nonetheless, the overall
thrust of the report is quite negative,
indicating that the collegium is far from
satisfied with the progress that has been
made so far. The main problem is that
the level of expertise in Russian, both
among pupils and among students in
the higher educational institutions, is
not improving rapidly enough. "For a
segment of the graduates of the pedago­
gical institutions," says the report, "the
level of mastery of Russian discourse is
poor."
In order to improve the situation in
the schools, the Ministry of Education
has developed a set of "Common Re­
quirements for the Oral and Written
Language of Pupils, for Carrying Out,
Written Assignments and the Examina­
tion of Exercise Books" that has been
made obligatory in the schools.
In addition, beginning in the current
school year an experimental analysis of
new curricula for the Ukrainian and
Russian languages developed by the
Department of the Methodology of
Language of the Scientific Research
Institute of Pedagogy of the Ukrainian
SSR has been introduced in a number
of schools in the city of Kiev. The
purpose of this experiment is to develop
still further the already existing curri­
cula:
"The scientific associates proceed
from the fact that at the present time
still a significant part of school gra­
duates has not mastered the language as
a means of discourse and is not attain­
ing the requisite level of language
culture. An analysis ,of the pupils'
knowledge shows that one of the rea­
sons for this situation is to be found in
the structure of today's school courses
in the Ukrainian and Russian lan­
guages, which does not allow for exer­
cises and practical work that is neces-
(Comfaoed on page 3)
I. "S pozitsiyi sovremennykh trebovaniy,"
Russkyi yazyk і literature-v shkolakh Ukr.
SSR, No. 1, 1982, pp. 8-11. See.RL 269/80,
"New Data on the Intensification of Rus­
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Baptist radio program continues Orthodox Church Council meets,

weeWy broadcasts to Ukraine discusses tasks, needs, expansion
ELMHURST, Ш. - The Ukrainian the word of God to our brothers and SOUTH BOUND BROOK, NJ. - used for the upkeep of the museum,
Voice of the Gospel has begun its fourth sisters in Ukraine and all over the The Church Council of the Metropoli` archives and library, and for further
weekly radio broadcast into Ukraine world," said the Rev. O.R. Harbuziuk, tanate of the Ukrainian Orthodox expansion of these facilities.
and the Soviet Union. radio pastor: - . „,. „ . Church in the United .States held its The Church Council also voted to
"We сапЧ send missionaries to U- regular session here at the Ukrainian join the Consistory in marking the 40th
The inaugural program was aired Orthodox Center on February 17 and
kraine, but the radio can be our missio­ anniversary of the ordination and
February 14 at 7:30 a.m. Kiev time and 18.
nary. Millions of people still don4 have subsequent elevation to bishop`of
will be beamed each Sunday on the 49
Bibles, but they can get the word of All the members of the council and Metropolitan Mstyslav, which will be
meter band, 6155 kilohertz, from
God over the air," Pastor Harbuziuk the Ukrainian Orthodox Consistory, celebrated on May 15 and 16 of this
WKNO international shortwave radio
pointed out. the heads of the central Church organi­ year at the Ukrainian Orthodox Cen­
station in New Orleans:
"Under atheistic communism, Chris­ zations and delegatesfrom working ter.
The same programs may also be tians are being persecuted for their committees at the Consistory took part The preparations for the millennium
heard in the United States on Satur­ religious beliefs. We must do all we can in the session. celebration and the appointment of
days' at 11:30 p.m. Eastern Standard to encourage them, to strengthen their The session was directed by Metro­ delegates to the All-Orthodox Ukrai­
Time; 10:30 p.m. Central Standard faith and to bring them the message of politan Mstyslav, who in his opening nian Jubilee Committee of the three
Time. hope from the Bible," he said. remarks talked extensively about the Metropolitanates, which has its base in
"We thank the Lord for this new general state of the Church in the Winnipeg, were also discussed at the
opportunity that has opened up to send Each 30-minute program contains United States and in the diaspora, conference.
inspirational music and a message from focusing on the most important assign­ Noticing the unhealthy situation that
the Bible by various preachers. ments and needs of the Church today as now exists within the Ukrainian com­
well as on the course of work in the near
Parochial school pupils The first program of the Ukrainian
Voice of the Gospel was beamed into
future.
munity in America, the Church Council
decided to remind Ukrainian
The Church Council listened to Orthodox faithful of the great role that
receive INS reply Ukraine starting in June 1966 from
Trans World Radio in Monte Carlo. A reports of the Consistory and with
satisfaction marked the special achieve­
God has placed in the hands of the
Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the free
second weekly program was added in
re Walter Polovchak 1967. A weekly program for children
was started in 1976.
ment of this body under the direction of
the Rt. Rev. Protopresbyter Stephen
world. t
In fulfilling its mission, the Ukrainian
Bilak following the 10th Sobor of the Orthodox Church is constantly an
PASSA1C, NJ. - Students of St. The programs can be heard at 6 p.m. Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
and 9:30 p.m. on Saturdays, Kiev time, object of enemy endeavors to erode its
Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic School spiritual strength and material sol­
and at 9 p.m. on Sundays, Kiev time, on Taking into consideration the further
her, who last month wrote President vency, and to defame and undermine
shortwave bands. needs to expand and strengthen the
Ronald Reagan urging him to allow the authority of the metropolitan and
Ukrainian Orthodox Church, its
Walter Polovchak to remain in the the hierarchs of the Ukrainian Ortho­
The radio ministry is supported by і parishes, and spiritual and material
United States, got a reply from the dox Church, the Church Council noted.
Ukrainian Baptist Churches through­ gains, as well as the need to continue
U.S. Justice Department Immigration
out the free world under the auspices of expansion of the Ukrainian Orthodox The Church Council entrusted the
and Naturalization Service.
the All-Ukrainian Evangelical Baptist Center in South Bound Brook,the Consistory with the task of excluding
The terse message was dated Feb­ Fellowship. Church Council of the Metropolia from membership in the Church parish­
ruary 22 and signed by Irvin Klavan, adopted a series of far-reaching deci­
It is estimated that millions have been es those individuals who through their
assistant commissioner of information sions and approved the proposed plans
tuning in each week to the programs works and actions harm the Ukrainian
services^ It reads as follows. and the projected budget for the fqllow-
beamed from Monte.Carlo. Millions Orthodox Church. Such persons who
t^rS`(ud?ptsy ` ; „,'.`.V ;`. . J::';";. : more are expected to listen to the new ing year. v „ are already members of the Ukrainian
Vqur' letters to President Reagan program, which Pastor Harbuziuk Special attention was given to the Orthodox Church would be deprived
dated January 19; 1982, concerning noted, is being broadcast at a strategic decision of the Church Council, made at of their membership, the council said.
Walter Polovchak havebeen referred to time, Sunday morning, when believers the suggestion of Metropolitans Msty­ During the conference, the resolu­
the Immigration and Naturalization are getting ready to attend worship slav, to build a home for senior citizens tions committee, considered proposals
Service (INS) for reply. services. on the grounds of the Orthodox Center dealing with all phases of the Church's
An application to request asylum in The fellowship has asked its pastors and to create a special S3 million activity. The list of resolutions approv­
the United, States was filed with the to encourage their congregations to foundation for the celebration of the ed by the council will be sent to all
district director of this service at Chica­ write to friends and relatives, informing millennium of Christianity in Ukraine. faithful and will be published in The
go, 111., by Walter Polovchak. There is them about the new program. Profits from this foundation will be Ukrainian Orthodox Word.
no law that says a person must be a
certain age. to file for asylum. Upon
recommendation from the Department
of State, the application was granted by Plast committee discusses International Jamboree
the district director on July 19, 1980. by Roman Juzeniw number of Plast members and parents between 800 and 1,000 members of
As you are aware, litigation concern­ to attend. Plast's "yunatstvo" (youths age 11-18)
ing the custody of the child is pending in NEW YORK - Members of the Registration will begin in mid-March will attend. Vsevolod Hnatczuk, jam­
the courts. International Plast Jamboree organiz­ and conclude'on May 15. All registra­ boree commander, averred that, "First
ing committee selected the official tion will be through the local Plast and foremost, this jamboree will be
jamboree badge, approved the budget branches. geared for `yunatstvo,'giving them
Authorities seek... and discussed the camp programs in an Committee members also selected the plenty of opportunity to practice their
. - - (СоїШвм і fnm page 2) eight-hour meeting held here on Sun­ official International Plast Jamboree scouting skills and to meet and become
day, March 7. badge from among 15 submissions. friends with their fellow `plastuny'from
sary for the development of language Attending the meeting, chaired by the Selected was the badge designed by around the world."
skills and spelling habits." committee head, Andrij Lastowecky, Olha Stasiuk.
The experimental curricula foresee were 20 committee members, the presi­ Also discussed at the meeting were The organizing committee also ap­
the completion; of the learning of dent of the U.S. National Plast Com­ the programs of the several camps proved Theodozij Krupa as comman­
grammar and orthography in the se­ mand, and three representatives of during the jamboree. It is expected that dant of the seniors' camp.
venth grade, thereby permitting pupils Canada's National Plast Command:
in the eighth grade to concentrate on Tania Onyschuk (first vice president),
reviewing and strengthening their ac­ Oleh Hordienko (second vice president)
quired skills. and Orest Haras, who is a member of
As can be seen from;the above, the the jamboree program sub-committee.
main problem facing Soviet language
planners in Ukraine is largely of a Much of the discussion centered on
technical sort — i.e., maximizing the the budget. Due to the large costs in
already significant gains attained by the mounting this jamboree (rental of buses
Russian language over the years, parti­ to transport Plast youths to and from
cularly in the republic's urban areas. their hiking trails, some of which are in
This is important not only with a view the Adirondacks, which are 150-175
towards the Ukrainians themselves but miles north of "Vovcha Tropa," site of
also because the Ukrainian higher the jamboree; buying foodstuffs; costs
educational institutions, together with related to sports, orienteering,firstaid,
those of Byelorussia, are expected to aid pioneering, etc.) and projected costs on
their RSFSR counterparts in training the local. Plast branch levels, especially
significant numbers of Russian-lan­ the transportation of the participants,
guage teachers from the Central Asian some from as faraway as Winnipeg, Los
and other non-Slav republics. Towards Angeles and Detroit to East Chatham, Petro Sodol (standing), the commander of "yunaky" at the International Phut
that end, the campaign to improve the N.Y., committee members pared down Jamboree to be held in August, addresses a recent meeting held to discuss the
study and teaching of the Russian expenditures where they could, thereby weeklong event that win mark the 70th
70tb anniversary of the (banding
(bonding of the Ukrai-`
language continues unabated'. giving the opportunity for the greatest о nlan youth organization.
 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY
East European coalition endorses
Maguire for Senate nomination
Andy Maguire
TRENTON, N.J. - The Eastern
European Democratic Leadership Cau-
cus endorsed Andy Maguire, former
Democratic congressman from Bergen
County, N.J., for the Democratic
nomination for United States senator.
The endorsement was announced at a
press conference held in the New Jersey
State House on Tuesday, March 2.
Appearing at the press conference
with Mr. Maguire were: Dr. Bohdan
Wytwyclcy, caucus chairman; Dr. Au-
gust Molnar, Henry Walentowicz
and John Gotsch, vice-chairpersons of
the caucus, which is an organization of
Polish, Ukrainian and Hungarian Ame-
ricans and other Americans of East
European descent.
The caucus's statement of endorse-
Toronto parish builds seniors' residence
Planning for the future in the foyer of the Demetrius Residence. Left to right:
Deacon Michael Barida, Ted Woloshyn, administrator, Vera Yurchuk, artist, the
Rt. Rev. John Tntaryn, pastor of S t Demetrius.
TORONTO - The Senior Citizens
Residence of St. Demetrius Parish is in
the finishing stages of construction.
Model suites are opened and a steady
stream of prospective residents are
visiting the administrator's office in
order to select specific apartments.
Ted Woloshyn, newly-appointed
administrator, and his secretary, Maria
Ciupka, are helping interested appli-
cants fill out the necessary application
forms.
The suites are spacious, and the
designated common areas consist of a
recreational lounge, craft room, library,
museum, tuck-shop and a roof garden.
The foyer area is graced by a magni-
ficent mural (18 feet by 9 feet) depicting
ment commended Mr. Maguire's "prin-
cipled position on human rights...spe-
cial interest in Poland, and belief that
we must develop more effective policy
options to support movements such as
Solidarity."
The caucus further stated that Mr.
Maguire is "someone with a special
interest in economic development and
redevelopment, increasing producti-
vity, and competing more successfully
in the international arena."
In his statement to the press, Mr.
Maguire criticized the Reagan adminis-
tration policy as "an escalation of
strident rhetoric, scatter-gunned
around the world." He further ad-
monished the administration for lifting
the Soviet grain embargo and for de-
emphasis of international human rights.
On foreign policy and domestic
issues, Mr. Maguire called forreinstate-
ment of the Soviet grain embargo, and
suggested a means of leveraging the
Polish debt to Western lenders without
causing chaos in financial markets.
Mr. Maguire also called for discus-
sion with our European allies of the
natural gas pipeline issue, release of
Lech Walesa and other Solidarity
leaders, and assistance to Polish re-
fugees.
Addressing domestic issues, Mr.
Maguire offered a six-point job-pro-
ducing program for the economy em-
phasizing productivity, research and
development, exports and a stable
monetary policy. He called for combat-
ing crime by speeding the prosecution
and imprisonment of violent, pro-
fessional and repeat offenders.
the arrival of the early Ukrainian
settlers, their struggles and achieve-
ments. Vera Yurchuk is responsible for
the design and execution of this com-
missioned mural and is also preparing a
suitable icon of the Mother of God for
the foyer.
Sister Ruth SMI has prepared the
plans for both the cornerstone and the
dedication plaque. The official opening
of the residence is scheduled for May 2,
and Canada's Governor General Ed-
ward Schreyer has been invited to the
ceremonies.
Yaroslava Surmach-Mills, the well-
known Ukrainian artist from New
York, is designing the logo for the new
building.
SUNDAY, MARCH 14,1982
L U C dbnations aid seminary
Msgr. Walter Paska presents seminary bills to LUC national board members Paul
Hanchar and the Rev. John P. Stevensky.
WASHINGTON - The League of
Ukrainian Catholics (LUC), which last
year donated 57,000 towards helping
Ukrainian seminarians, recently re-
cieved bills totalling 55,000 from Msgr.
Walter Paska, rector of St. Josaphat's
Ukrainian Catholic Seminary here. The
LUC will pay the bills as part of its aid
to the seminary.
The LUC, which has councils and
chapters in six states, serves the Ukrai-
nian Catholic Church in several ways.
Besides donating money to the semi-
naries, the LUC annually distributes
burse funds to all diocesan and reli-
UAVets begin membership campaign
NEW BRITAIN, Conn. - At the last
national board meeting of the Ukrai-
nian American Veterans (UAV) held in
Spring Valley, N.Y., National Com-
mander Michael Chaika appointed a --
special membership task force to enlist
new members into the UAV beginning
with the new year.
Senior Vice Commander John Lupa
(Post No. 21, Bridgeport, Conn.) heads
the group, with Past National Com-
mander Eugene Sagasz (Post No. 17,
Passaic, N.J.) and Junior Vice Com-
mander Edward Zetick (Post No. 4,
Philadelphia) filling out the rest of the
committee.
Unaffiliated veterans are encouraged
to form a new post, join an existing post
in their territority, or apply as
members-a t-large.
Last year the UAV placed a memorial
plaque aboard the USS Arizon, berthed
in Hawaii, in formal ceremonies
with the U.S. Navy and a delegation
headed by Past National Commander
UIA, UNA join forces
NEW YORK - The Ukrainian
Institute of America has become a
co-sponsor of the UNA Fraternal
Activities Office's latest endeavor: a
contemporary performing arts group
currently in its organizational stages.
The group's raison d'etre is to
develop and explore contemporary
performing art which would link the
traditional Ukrainian folk culture to
the bicultural experience of Ukrai-
nians in America.
The group has attracted profes-
sional young artists and enthusiasts
No. 11
gious institutions and orders.
Receiving the bills from Msgr. Paska
were two members of the LUC's na-
tional board, Paul Hanchar, who is a
member of St. Michael's Church in
Frackville, Pa., and the Rev. John P.
Stevensky, pastor of St. Nicholas
Ukrainian Catholic Church in Miners-
ville, Pa., and the LUC's national
spiritual director.
The current president of the LUC is
Dr. Robert Hrubec of Saddle River,
N.J. He is a member of St. Nicholas
Ukrainian Catholic Church in Passaic
N.J.
Bohdan Bezkorowajny (Post No. 7,
New York City).
In addition, UAV posts conduct
memorial services at gravesites every
year. A site designated for Congressional
Medal of Honor winner Pvt. Nicholas
Minue (died in action during World
War II) at Freedoms Foundation Medal
of Honor Grove in Valley Forge, Pa., is
being commemorated yearly by the
UAV.
At the past UAV national convention
held in New Jersey, President Ronald
Reagan commended the UAV in a
telegram to Commander Chaika.
The matter of UAV members-at-
large is being given special attention,
since many veterans of Ukrainian
descent live in areas where no posts
exist. A 53 fee will entitle these members
to attend UAV national conventions
and receive its publication.
Inquiries should be sent to: Senior
Vice Commander John Lupa, 183
Broadway, Trumbull, Conn. 06611.
who have taken part in preliminary
meetings in which the following
objectives were outlined: I) to offer
courses and workshops to persons
interested in exploring contempo-
rary performing arts, derived from
Ukrainian themes; 2) to organize a
troupe which would stage produc-
tions reflecting the bicultural expe-
rience of Ukrainian Americans.
Persons who are interested in
participating in any capacity should
immediately call Marta Korduba at
the UNA Fraternal Activities Office
at (201) 451-2200 or (212) 227-5250.
Nail
U.S. at Madrid: Soviets seek supremacy in chemical warfare
Following is the text of a statement
delivered by Ambassador Max Кат–
pelman, chairman of the United States
delegation to the Madrid Conference
which is reviewing compliance with the
1975 Helsinki Accords. The statement
was made on February 16 at an infor­
mal meeting of delegation heads.
I rise to reply to a rather surprising
statement by the delegate from the
Soviet Union at our plenary session last
week. The procedural chaos on Tues­
day made the exercise of this right of
reply inappropriate; our long list of
speakers on Friday made it undesirable.
I will address myself now to a narrow
portion of the delegate's strange criti­
cism of my country. Since this is an
informal meeting of the heads of delega­
tion, I will do so with some specificity,
comfortable in the knowledge that it
will not serve to divert our attention
from the violence that has been perpe­
trated against the people of Poland in
violation of the Helsinki Final Act.
The Soviet delegate.criticized my
government for engaging in chemical
warfare preparation. The reason 1
described this reference as "surprising"
and "strange" is that I would have
thought this to be a subject that the
Soviet Union would want to keep away
from, since they have made every effort
to hide from the world their own
priority attention to this form of bruta­
lity.
All of mankind lives with the horrible
reality that the unraveling mysteries of
science and technology have so intensi­
fied man's capacity to be brutal to man
that he runs the risk of destroying
himself and his planet. This conference
in Madrid is another in a long series of
searching steps to seek means of mini-
Music review
Concert dedicated to patriarch
provides some inspiring moments
by Dr. Andrij V. Szul
Last m o n t h , t h e U k r a i n i a n
American community joined
in the worldwide celebrations mark­
ing the 90th birthday of Cardinal Josyf
Slipyj, patriarch of the Ukrainian
Catholic Church. The keystone festivity
in Philadelphia, seat of the Ukrainian
Catholic Metropolitan See, was a grand
"akademia."
This peculiar form of cultural mara­
thon is recognizable among the initiated
by its duration — several uninterrupted
hours - that brims over with long
speeches of assorted emotional persua­
sions, dramatic recitation, and choral,
operatic and piano music. Such unna­
tural demand on the audience is
traditionally colored by a public-ad­
dress system that occasionally allows
for a vague recognition of that which is
being shouted into the din of screeching
audio feedback, boom, pop or even
abject audio failure.
Thankfully, on February 28, the P.A.
system at Philadelphia's majestic Aca­
demy of Music grand concert hall did
not fail. And this should not have
escaped notice by the crowd that oc­
cupied some 60 percent of the cavernous
facility which seats 3,000.
Also, by the very act of voluntary self-
eviction from the somewhat seedy
quefters of a public jyrnor-.high school
in the upper Inner City (site,,of many
THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY
mizing the threat of war and violence
for us and our children. This is why so
many of us here have expressed our
deep concerns about the tragic develop­
ments in Poland.
Reason and conscience demand that
we continue to work for agreements and
treaties among ourselves to increase the
degree of sanity governing relations
among states. Principle X of the Helsinki
Final Act is based on the premise that if
there is to be any confidence in our
capacity to begin weaving the fabric of
understanding among us so essential to
our survival, those international treaties
must be looked upon as sacred ones, to
be scrupulously observed. When they
are not observed, we must, as we did all
of last week on Poland, and as we will
continue to do, express our outrage and
disappointment.
As early as 1925, with the expansion
of new frontiers of knowledge, states­
men with vision understood the need to
deal with the awful realization that man
then had the capacity to unleash poi­
sons in the air. In that year, the Geneva
Protocol was signed banning the use of
chemical and bacteriological gases.
Science continued to evolve and
prove the maxim that the devil too
evolves. The more powerful nations,
including our own, found themselves in
a race to adapt new learning to wartime
use. The growing sophistication of
bacteriology and chemistry now pro­
vided additional instruments of horrible
destruction.
The United States, in an effort to
inject sanity into the process, unilate­
rally renounced its use of those weapons
in 1969. A sensible solution then emerg­
ed: let us agree mutually to renounce the
use of biological or toxic weapons. An
international convention toward that
end was signed in 1972 by 111 countries.
The pledge taken was not to "develop.
earlier akademias), to this distinguished
Center City cultural mecca — the
Ukrainian American bishops who spon­
sored the event, in cooperation with
many other representative organiza­
tions, treated with deserved dignity
both their own ancient cultural heri­
tage as well as thejubilarian on his 90th
birthday.
The introductory remarks, spoken
with the familiar mixture of patriotic
fervor and scholarship by Archbishop-
Metropolitan Stephen Sulyk, set the
tone for the remainder of the program.
His address was preceded by a choral
performance, conducted by Osyp Lu-
pan, of "Prayer for the Patriarch," Ivan
Nedilsky`s piece written a decade ago in
an era when such invocations were but a
wisp of a dream. As presented now,
however, this akademia suggested that
some prayers, like miracles, might
sometime come true.
Such best intentions notwithstand­
ing, the concert proved once more that
art must not be legislated by committee.
Apparently, the mammoth community
committee (35 persons) and the execu­
tive committee (15 persons), outlined a
grave mission: each performer was to
present selections only of religious
character and Ukrainian pedigree.
Needless to say, considering the capabi­
lities, interests and backgrounds of the
artists, it surprised no one that these
aspirations were hardly sustained.
SUNDAY, MARCH 14,1982
produce, stockpile or otherwise acquire
and retain" these biological weapons.
Most of the world greeted that step
with enthusiasm. This was not an arms
limitation; it was a disarmament agree­
ment. We knew that the treaty did not
provide for ways to insure verifiability,
but we were convinced that the treaty
would be observed because the alterna­
tive was too awful to be contemplated
by the rational mind. This proved to be
a naive error.
It is with regret, Mr. Chairman, that I
bring to the attention of this meeting
that the Geneva Convention of 1925
and the 1972 Biqlogical Weapons Con­
vention have both been seriously and
deliberately violated by the Soviet
Union. The consequences are most
serious. The realization that even in this
area the Soviet Union operates without
restraint affects our confidence in any
agreement signed by the Soviet Union.
The need for absolute and unmistakable
verification of any agreement to be
entered into is now for us unconditional.
But the violation of Principle X of the
Helsinki Final Act represented by these
transgressions, serious as it is, is not our
only deep concern arising from this
disregard for international law and
human decency. There is an intense
moral and practical concern as well.
It is unmistakable that innocent
people in Laos, Kampuchea and Af­
ghanistan have been victims of a deadly
poison rained down upon them by
airplanes carrying, among other lethal
agents, potent mycotoxins of the tri-
chothecene group. Death, often with
victims choking on their own blood,
occurs within an hour after exposure.
This biological warfare agent has either
been used by Soviet planes and Soviet
pilots, or supplied by the Soviet Union
to the pilots and planes of others.
Soviet scientists have been working
In addition, little was served by an
atmosphere pointedly austere and
subdued. Rather, the occasion demand­
ed the heights of joyfulness. For, after
all, was this not the amazing 90th
birthday celebration of a still-very-
active leader of an entire people, not
only a Church, one who to date reigns
with decisiveness and impact?
Short of including some pants-split­
ting Hopak finale, the concert should
have been turned into a celebration of
life, rather than a mannerized church­
like service. If the event had been
appropriately effervescent - not som­
berly reflective and formalized - the
several excellent featured artists could
have freely brought their truly best-
Jullana ШпспиЬ
5
on biological weapons since the 1930s.
Judging by its published scientific
articles, the emphasis of their work has
been on how to produce the poison in
massive quantities, rather than on how
to create antidotes, or on how to
prevent bacteriological attacks. Further­
more, we have sound reason to believe
that during 1963-67 the Soviet Union
tested its poison gases and bacteriologi­
cal toxins in combat during Egypt's war
with Yemen.
In April 1979, an explosion occurred
at Soviet Military Compound No. 19 in
Sverdlovsk in the Ural Mountains. That
explosion released a cloud of anthrax
spores into the atmosphere. The com­
pound was then and is today the site of a
Soviet biological weapons research and
production facility. It is reported that
more than 1,000 people died in that
explosion. The amount of spores re­
leased into the air was much too large to
be a research sample. It indicated that
the Soviets were mass-producing the
bacillus. We are aware of five other such
facilities in operation today.
Refugee victims from the areas of
biological poisoning tell tales of either
"yellow rain" or "blue rain" or "black
rain." The amounts of poison found on
the scene and recovered demonstrate
that they were manufactured and not
produced by nature. The only known
factories in the world that manufacture
these poisons are in the Soviet Union.
Their use, in defiance and violation of
international agreements, merits the
condemnation of civilization.
Now let me move to the related
question of chemical warfare,raisedby
the Soviet delegate.
The record will show that in 1969 the
United States ceased the production of
all chemical weapons and has today
only one chemical weapon production
(Continued on page I)
inspired, most beautiful flowers to form
a bouquet at the patriarch's feet.
For example, the Metropolitan
Opera Company's bass-baritone An-
driy Dobriansky might have shone
with selections from that great operatic
repertoire that has earned him inter­
national fame, as well as admiration
among Ukrainians. Fortunately, Mr.
Dobriansky's rendition of Barvinsky's
"Psalm 94" showed him off in a new and
exciting role - as a brilliant lieder
singer in the immortal Fischer-Dieskau
tradition. Even fora terrific Scarpia of a
decade ago, that is substantial growth
and diversity.
Though the Barvinsky piece calls for
consummate keyboard partnership
with the singer, moving far beyond mere
accompaniment, concert pianist Dr.
Juliana Osinchuk succeeded in con­
quering this demand marvelously.
One of Miss Osinchuk's solo selec­
tions was the ever-popular (of the set of
three) Lisztian "Ukrainian"etudes.
Her controlled rendition of the techni­
cally devastating and treacherous
"Transcendental Etude — Mazepa"
put Philadelphia's Academy of Music
on fire thanks to sheer power and digital
precision. Without a doubt, she is the
most outstanding young Ukrainian
American concert pianist to have arrived
in many years.
Yet another highlight of the after­
noon was a selected reading from
Franko's epic poem, "Moses," by the
grande dame of contemporary Ukrai­
nian theater in the United States, Lidia
Krushelnytsky, successor in the school
of the beloved master-teachers Olympia
Dobrovolska and Yosyf Hirniak. Her
deep and rich resonations seemed to fill
(Continued on page 13)
 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 14,1982 Null

News and \iiews

Ukrainian Weekly Why did the famine happen?
Gas pains by Dr. Junes E. Mace Ukraine primarily as a source of grain.
One telegram from Lenin to Ordzhoni-
For many weeks the Reagan administration has been hog-tied in its The great Ukrainian famine of 1933 is kidze at the end of 1917 makes the point
efforts to cull a receptible policy vis-a vis the Urengoi natural gas best understood as an integral part of quite clearly: Lenin ordered his "extra-
pipeline from western Siberia to Western Europe, the largest single Stalin's solution to the Ukrainian ordinary commissar" in Ukraine to send
East-West project to date. The reasons may appear simple, yet they are "problem," and its roots go back to 1917. "bread, bread, bread," several train-
barbed with complexities. In reviewing his options for delaying the Any attempt to explain it outside the loads every day, and accounts of the
pipeline, President Ronald Reagan must address the larger question of context of the Ukrainian experience first Bolshevik occupation of Ukraine
reviewing the entire structure of Western economic relations with the from 1917 to 1933 or to view it merely as liken Lenin's followers to a hoard of
Soviet bloc. Moreover, he must take into account the touchy issue of a particularly harsh application of locusts that seized everything it
burgeoning West European pique at what is perceived as American general policy toward the Soviet pea- could for immediate shipment to Russia.
meddling in its economic affairs. How did Mr. Reagan get into this santry is doomed to failure. Third, the Bolsheviks did everything
pickle? This is so because Stalin himself in their power to prevent the parcelling
identified the problem of nationality of the landlords' estates to peasant
The declaration of martial law in Poland provided the impetus for with that of the peasantry, because of farmers and even tried to force pea-
reviewing the pipeline deal. On December 29 the president announced the nature of the Soviet Ukrainian sants into communes, at least until the
economic sanctions against the Soviets for their "heavy and direct regime up to. 1933, and because the spring of 1919 when the order went out
responsibility for the repression in Poland." As a result, the sale of policies pursued toward the Ukrainian to stop this practice.
General Electric turbine parts and Caterpillar pipelayers already peasantry during thefirstfive-yearplan The Ukrainian countryside respond-
earmarked was banned immediately. Now some advisors want Mr. went hand in hand with a number of ed by taking up arms, and even the
Reagan to take further steps, such as trying to prevent American other policies designed to destroy the defeat of the Ukrainian National Re-
licensees in Europe from delivering turbines and other key Ukrainian nation as a political, social public failed to halt widespread guerilla
components needed for the 3,500-mile pipeline. and cultural organism. warfare. Soviet sources refer to this as
The hard-liners, led by Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Bolshevik policies in Ukraine during "kulak banditry," and the official Soviet
Prof. Richard Pipes of the National Security Council, argue rather the period of "war communism" were in Ukrainian newspapers continued to
many ways a dress rehearsal for those of report outbreaks of it well into 1924.
convincingly that the Soviet economy, sputtering ever downward for the fi-e-year plan.
the past several years, is currently under increased pressure due to (Continued on page 11)
When the Bolsheviks first occupied
Poland's economic collapse and the sluggishness of other East Ukraine, they treated any manifestation
European economies. of Ukrainian national aspirations with Dr. James E. Mace is the junior
In 1980, a full two-thirds of the Soviet Union's total hard-currency unmittigated hostility, as one Bolshevik collaborator of Dr. Robert Conquest,
earnings - some S17 billion — came from natural gas and oil exports. spokesman at the time put it, "a smoke- who is preparing a publication on the
Hence, if the Europeans could be dissuaded from continuing the screen for the counterrevolution." mand-made famine of 1933 in U-
pipeline, the resulting loss of hard revenue could cripple the Soviet When Muravyov occupied Kiev, any- kraine. In his role as collaborator Dr.
economy to the point where the Kremlin would be forced to divert one heard speaking Ukrainian in the Mace is conducting research
resources away from defense. This would considerably reduce military street was arrested and shot as a sus- under the auspices of the Harvard
pected counterrevolutionary. Rakov- Ukrainian Research Institute. The
pressures on NATO. sky, while head of the Soviet Ukrainian famine monograph to be authored by
Further evidence that the Soviets are economically strapped is the government, called Ukrainian a kulak Prof. Conquest is a joint project of the
recent disclosure that they sold more of their gold reserves last January language. HURI and the Ukrainian National
than in any other recorded month. Secondly, the Bolsheviks initially saw Association.
Clearly, the anti-pipeline scenario does not take into view the strain
on West European economies that the rupture of Western economic
relations with Eastern Europe would have, relations which have grown Reflections on overcoming adversity
increasingly and alarmingly intertwined. Equally as clear is that the
Europeans have gotten themselves in this fix by putting purely by Dr. Myron B. Kuropas quered the adversity that was foisted
economic considerations before such dimensions as security and upon them.
sound relations with the United States. West Germany alone, for One of the problems I have always For other Americans, overcoming
example, will increase its gas imports to meet nearly one-third of its had with some of my fellow Conserva- obstacles involved the exploitation of
needs if and when the pipeline is turned on. In effect, the pipeline will tives has been their tendency to roman- docile, low-cost workers.
ticize our nation's past. One case in When England's pool of indentured
make the West Europeans dependent on the Soviets and, therefore,
point is Patrick Buchanan. toilers began to dry up, over half a
more vulnerable. "We owe a debt to divine provi- million black Africans were involunta-
What further irks American policymakers are the policies of West dence," wrote Mr. Buchanan recently, rily imported to the colonies to fill the
European banks. European banks are committing themselves to vast "that when our ancestors reached these gap. Southern colonies prospered and
new loans to the Soviet Union at a time when the Kremlin is doing shores, they faced adversity and ob- by 1860, the United States had no fewer
nothing to ease the pain in the West caused by Poland's non-payment stacles, the conquest of which pro- than 2.34 million slave laborers working
of debts. In addition, the Soviets would repay the principal of these duced strong men and women - not the at tasks that few white people were
loans not with cash but with gas still locked in the Siberian tundra. enervating, cloying, poisonous embrace willing to undertake. Black Americans
French banks, for one, agreed to lend the USSR an extra S140 million of a mammoth welfare state." are still overcoming that adversity and
downpayment on pipeline equipment. All this with Poland still in the the racist policies that existed for a
grip of martial law! My quarrel with this thesis is that it is century after emancipation.
based on a somewhat selective interpre- When cheap and abundant labor was
From where we sit, Mr. Reagan cannot go on shilly-shallying on the
tation of American history — a roman- needed after the'Civil War, America
pipeline issue. Despite the apparent inconsistency of an American tic fantasy, if you will - of the salu- opened its doors wide to Europe's
policy that allows big grain sales to the Soviets but wags a finger at brious consequences of adversity. While "wretched refuse." By 1910, an esti-
European industrial sales, Mr. Reagan should come out strongly it is true that some Americans prospered mated 9.3 million East and South
against the pipeline and use America's economic muscle to try and by overcoming adversity, many others Europeans arrived to work in America `s
reign in the unruly Europeans. Impatience with the irresponsible suffered and died from it. mines and factories where wages were
wheeling-and-dealing of the West Europeans is already growing in Of the 120 settlers who arrived in low, working conditions were abomi-
many government circles. Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska, for example, Jamestown in 1607, only 53 survived the nable, and death and disease were
has threatened to introduce a resolution to withdraw American troops first winter. At Plymouth, less than half common. Even children, some as young
from Europe because of Western Europe's cooperation with the of the 102 Pilgrims who disembarked as 9 and 10, were put to work to help
Soviets on the pipeline, and because of its casual attitude toward from the Mayflower in 1620 were alive a their families overcome their adversi-
defense. year later. ties.
While some Americans succumbed, When strikes erupted during the late
Truly, it is high time to put the economic screws to the Soviets, and others overcame adversity in the new 1880s and early 1900s, they were sup-
firm opposition to the pipeline is one small step toward the economic world at great cost to others. pressed . When the economy lagged, as it
isolation of the USSR. The United States must also make it clear to its For almost two centuries native did in the 1880s and again in 1893,
allies that they must tighten up credits and guarantees to the Soviets Americans were systematically, often (Continued on page 14)
and restrict exports of energy-related materials, or risk suffering the brutally, pushed off their ancestral
serious consequence of American ire. It's a prickly issue, but Western lands despite numerous treaties recog- Dr. Myron B. Kuropas, special assis-
Europe must be diplomatically and gingerly persuaded to stop nizing theirrightof ownership. In 1830, tant for ethnic affairs to President
snapping at the heels of its chief ally and protector. Congress even passed a Removal Act - Gerald Ford, is supreme vice-president
Two opportunities to exploit the Soviet Union's economic anemia subsequently sanctioned by the Su- of the Ukrainian National Association
have alreay been missed — declaring Poland in default and, yes,conti- preme Court — which empowered the and a board member of the Illinois
nuing the grain embargo. These decisions are reversible, though president to deport Indians. Eight years Consultation on Ethnicity in Education
later, some 4,000 Cherokees perished as and the National Center for Urban-
maybe not at the present time. Throwing a wrench into the gas pipeline
their nation was forcibly pushed across Ethnic Affairs. He served as Midwest
works must be done, the sooner the better. the Mississippi River in mid-winter. ACTION regional director from 1971
American Indians never have con- to 1974.
No. 11
Towards a united Ukrainian front in America
The story of our congresses, 1902-82
Remarks delivered by Dr. Myron B. Kuropas,
supreme vice president of the Ukrainian National
Association, during a community meeting sponsored
by the Committeefor Law and Order in the VCCA on
January 31 in New York City.
Ethnic organizational life in America tends to
follow a sequential pattern consisting of three distinct
historical phases.
The first phase involves the establishment of local
societies for the purpose of meeting immediate
communal needs.
The second phase begins when the need for pooling
and expanding local resources is identified. A national
organization of local societies is then established for
the purpose of meeting local needs more efficiently
and for broadening the resource base with the
promotion of additional local chapters.
As the ethnic community continues to grow, it
becomes more diversified .leading to a proliferation of
local and national organizations. This often creates
problems of coordination, and it is at this juncture in
the history of the community that the third phase of
communal life is reached. A congress of local and
national organizations is called, and a federation
comes into being for the purpose of enhancing and
coordinating the achievement of goals shared by the
total community. In some instances, the calling of such
a congress is precipitated by a single momentous event
or by the identification of a perceived threat to the
well-being of the entire ethnic group.
Ukrainian organizational life in America has
generally followed the historical sequence charted by
other American ethnic communities. The first Rusyn
community was organized in Shenandoah, Pa., in
1884 for the purpose of establishing a parish and
building a church. With the arrival of the Rev. Ivan
Voliansky, more local organizations — a burial
society, a choir, a heritage school, a co-op — were
established.
Encouraged by Father Voliansky, other Rusyn
communities in the area — Freeland, Shamokin,
Hazleton, Olyphant — as well as elsewhere in the
United States — Jersey City, N.J., Minneapolis—soon
followed Shenandoah`s lead. By 1889, the year of
Father Voliansky's departure, the Rusyn community
was beginning to take on national characteristics.
In 1894, a number of local burial societies came
together and gave birth to the Ruskyi Narodnyi
Soyuz, the first national organization in America's
Rusyn-Ukrainian community. With the establishment
of a national body, new local chapters were organized
and community life expanded. In many Rusyn-
Ukrainian communities the creation of a local Soyuz
branch often precipitated the establishment of a parish
committee with the Soyuz subsequently playing a
major role in the process of organizing the parish and
building the local church.
Once Rusyn-Ukrainian priests began to arrive to
take up pastoral duties in communities where parish
committees had already been created, an informal
network of church leaders was formed for the purpose
of promoting parish organization throughout America.
In 1901, under the leadership of the American Circle
- a group of dynamic Catholic priests dedicated to
the Ukrainianization of the Rusyn community - a
national organization, the Association of Ruthenian
Church Communities in the United States, was
established to coordinate the work of the church.
The first significant attempt to create a federation of
Rusyn-Ukrainian organizations occurred in 1902 in
Harrisburg Pa. Concerned with what they believed
was a concerted effort by Roman Catholic prelates to
Latinize and amalgamate their Church and angered by
Rome's reticence to intervene - which was viewed as a
repudiation of certain ecclesiasticrightsguaranteed by
the Union of 1596 — the newly formed association
called a convention to discuss the future of the Rusyn-
Ukrainian Church in America. During the course of
the assembly a number of community issues was
raised in addition to matters related to the Church.
The convention ended with a resolution to hold a
congress the following.year, and to move ahead with
the , formation of an umbrella organization which
THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 14,1982 - 7
by Dr. Myron B. Kuropas
Unfortunately, the committee passed out of
existence within a few years, largely as a result of
disagreements between the Radical Socialists and the
National Democrats within its ranks.
The Ruthenian National Council
The next meaningful attempt to organize an
umbrella organization began in 1914, soon after the
eruption of hostilities in Europe. In the forefront of the
call for "a representative body of all Ukrainians" was
the Ruskyi Narodnyi Soyuz, which formally changed
its name to the Ukrainian National Association the
following year. "Let's be ready," declared Svoboda on
September 1, "the war will end, there will be a peace
conference, and Ukraine will have its chance."
That same year, Dr. Semen Demydchuk, a frequent
Ukrainian visitor to America, arrived in the United
States as the official envoy of the newly established
Ukrainian General Council in Lviv. On October 8,
representatives from the four fraternal benefit
organizations then in existence — the UNA, the
Ukrainian Workingmen's Association, the Providence
Association and the Haidamaky - met with Dr.
Demydchuk to discuss the possibility of creating one
powerful organization which could work on behalf of
Ukrainian national aspirations abroad. After much
debate, it was decided that an organizational commit-
tee, headed by Dr. Volodymyr Simenovych of
Chicago, should be created for the purpose of
Father Mykola Stefanovych convening a "Ukrainian diet" in America.
The first break in what appeared to be a united
could serve as a coordinating center for the entire Ukrainian front occurred within a few weeks after the
Rusyn-Ukrainian community. meeting. Asserting his authority as a leader in both the
Uhro-Rusyn and Ukrainian ethno-national camps,
The Ruthenian National Committee Bishop Soter Ortynsky suddenly announced the
convocation of a congress of Ukrainians and Uhro-
On December 26, 1903, a national congress of Rusyns. Before anyone could effectively protest — let
Rusyn-Ukrainians was held in Yonkers, N.Y., and the alone dissuade the bishop — an all-Rusyn conclave
first Ukrainian federation in the United States — the was held in Philadelphia and, on December 8, 1914,
Ruthenian National Committee — was established. the Ruthenian National Council was born.
Headed by Father Mykola Stefanovych, a Radical In a subsequent editorial titled "What Is the Biggest
Socialist, the new umbrella organization included Fault of Our People?" (January 2, 1915), Svoboda
most societies then active in the increasingly militant replied: "The answer to that question is very brief. The
and ethno-nationally conscious Rusyn-Ukrainian biggest fault of our people is their lack of unity." It was
camp. a lament that would be repeated many times and by
A national fund was established of which 25 percent many people in the years that lay ahead.
was earmarked for combating Russian Orthodox Unfortunately, the Uhro-Rusyns never fully
propaganda, 25 percent for the support of Rusyn- supported Bishop Ortynsky's actions, and when he met
Ukrainian schools in America, 25 percent for the an untimely death in 1916 the council died with him.
maintenance of a national home, 15 percent for
assistance to organizations in Ukraine, and 10 percent The Federation of Ukrainians in the United States
for miscellaneous needs in the United States.
Subsequent conventions of the committee were held Ignoring the bishop's earlier initiative, the fratemak,
in Olyphant in 1904 and in McKees Port in 1905. It now minus the Providence Association, decided to
was at the latter convention that Father Mykola push ahead with their original plans. The first diet of
Strutynsky, a National Democrat, was elected Ukrainians in America was convened in New YorV
president. At the same time, a decision was reached to City on October 30 and 31, 1915, with 295 delegates
adopt the nam,e Society of Rusyn Patriots to identify (holding mandates from 457 local non-sectarian
all local branches of the committee. organizations) in attendance.
During the two days of deliberation, a new central
Ukrainian organization, the Federation of Ukrai-
nians in the United States, headed by Dr. Volodymyr
Simenovych and an executive board of 21 persons,
came into being and was charged with the task of
representing the Ukrainian people in America and
with establishing local branches of the federation
throughout the country.
Four major resolutions were passed reflecting the
political posture of the Ukrainian stream at that time:
1. The Ukrainian congress and that organization
which it has established represents the will of
Ukrainians organized in 457 non-sectarian Ukrainian
organizations in the United States.
2. Ukrainians, citizens and future citizens of the
United States, appeal to the president to empower the
future American delegation to the peace conference to
proclaim, in the name of the United States, the
principle that every nationality is the rightful ruler of
its own country and no nationality is subject to the rule
of another.
3. Our program with reference to the Ukrainian
question is based on the establishment of a Ukrainian
republic formulated on the most far-reaching demo-
cratic principles and on radical agrarian reform.
Father Mykola Strutynsky . (Continued on pate I)
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Towards a united...
(Continued from pa t e 7)
4. We support the Tight for autonomy of Russian
and Austrian Ukraine if, after the war, the Ukrainian
lands have not been incorporated in a Ukrainian
republic.
The federation also resolved to aid the homeland in
its struggle for self-determination based upon
democratic principles, to provide financial assistance
to victims of the war, and to continue the ethno-
national development of the Ukrainian American
through the establishment of study courses for
illiterates, night schools for those seeking advanced
training libraries, lecture series, as well as drama
clubs, choirs, sports clubs and youth organizations."
The federation, seemingly doomed from its incep­
tion, did not succeed in its mission to politically unite
the Ukrainian American community. Surprised by
Bishop Ortynsky's sudden retreat from the original
Demydchuk committee, the organizers of the federa­
tion were faced with a dilemma — join Bishop
Ortynsky's effort and negate the increasingly influen­
tial socialist camp, or ignore Bishop Ortynsky and
incur the wrath of the powerful Catholics. In the end,
both alternatives were attempted.
Bishop Soter Ortynsky
When cooperation with Bishop Ortynsky proved
untenable, Ukrainian lay leaders proceeded to
organize the federation and, predictably, the Ukrai­
nian Catholic press began its criticism, beginning with
the fact that the congress had not opened with a prayer
and had not sent a greeting to the pope.
A more serious problem, however, was faced by the
federation within its own ranks. As the war progressed
in Europe, the overridine issue becmftffw лімжгіоп of
continued support of the Austrian war effort. As the
representative of the General Council in Lviv - which
had called upon the Ukrainian people to support
Austria in her fight with Russia - Dr. Demydchuk,
who represented the right-wing views within the
federation, argued for continued moral support of
Austria, a position which, if over-emphasized, could
alienate the growing anti-Hapsburg sentiments of
America's leaders. The left wing within the federation
favored an anti-Austrian stance which, if promul­
gated, could conceivably help the Russian war effort.
In time, the dilemma split the federation into two
camps - pro-Austrian and anti-Austrian - with
executives within the same Ukrainian member-
organization taking different sides on the issue.
The conflict was never really resolved within the
federation. Anticipating rapproachement with the
Ukrainian Catholic Church after the death of Bishop
Ortynsky, therightwing, led by the UNA, withdrew to
form another all-Ukrainian organization, the Ukrai­
nian Alliance of America.
Following the UNA-led exodus in 1916, the
federation received the bulk of its community support
from the UNA and the Ukrainian Federation of
Ukrainian Socialist Parties of America (UFSPA), an
organization created in 1915. The ideological leader­
ship of the federation, however, was provided by
Myroslav Sichynsky, the assassin of Polish Count
Potocki in 1908. Sentenced to life imprisonment, Mr.
Sichynsky eventually escaped to Sweden - with the
help of bribe monies supplied by the Ukrainian
American community — and, on October 21, 1914,
arrived to a hero's welcome in the Ukrainian Ameri­
can community.
A second exodus within the federation occurred in
1917 when the UFSPA, now firmly controlled by the
Bolsheviks, came out in opposition to the Ukrainian
Central Rada in Kiev and left the federation.
Despite the loss of most of its original membership
and strong opposition from the alliance and Svoboda,
the federation managed to su/vive its right- and left-
wing crises and to continue its efforts on behalf of the
Ukrainian cause. Its most significant contribution
during its existence was the role it played in the
campaign to have President Woodrow Wilson proclaim a
nationwide Ukrainian Day in America. Both the
federation and the alliance supported the idea and
both claimed credit for its genesis and realization.
As for the role of the federation, this much seems
certain: 1. On January 4, 1917, a federation delega­
tion consisting of Dr. Simenovych, Osyp Zaplatynsky,
the UWA president, Dr. Cyril Bilyk, and Maria
Strutynsky, met with President Wilson to speak on
behalf of the proclamation. 2. Organizations asso­
ciated with the federation collected 532,217.37 for the
Ukrainian cause as a result of the Ukrainian Day fund-
raising activities.
Another federation project was its involvement in
the formation of the Central European Union, an
ethnic coalition organized by Thomas Masaryk to
dramatize the plight of the "oppressed nationalities of
Central Europe." In keeping with its anti-Austrian
posture, the federation signed the union's Declaration
of Common Aims on October 25,1918, along with the
Uhro-Rusyns and 10 other nationalities present at the
Philadelphia gathering which gave birth to the union.
The union clearly favored the dissolution of the
Austro-Hungarian empire.
Endeavoring to regain some of its lost momentum in
the community, the federation decided to convene a
second diet of Ukrainian Americans in Washington
on December 16,1918. A national fund v/asestablished
and a new "call" was proclaimed to the Ukrainian
American community to "unite under a common
banner in a cause that will benefit the Ukrainian
people." Commenting on the "constant and infamous
attacks from both sides," the declaration urged its
supporters to "recruit new members and organize new
branches."
A Washington office was established by the
federation in 1919, under the direction of Nicholas
Repen, a former member of the Radical Party in
Galicia and one-time contributor to Ukrayinska
Hazeta, the short-lived federation newspaper.
A final attempt to regain its prestige within the
Ukrainian American community was made by the
federation late in 1919 soon after the arrival in
Washington of a diplomatic mission from the Petliura
government.
Believing that Julian Bachynsky, the mission
director and a socialist, would recognize them as the
sole representatives of the Ukrainian American
community, the federation leadership went out of its
way to curry his favor. Mr. Bachynsky, however, had
spent time in America as a participant-observer prior
to the war and, upon his return to Ukraine, had
authored "The Ukrainian Immigration in the United
States of America," a monumental research study
published in Lviv in 1914. He was thoroughly familiar
with the politics of the Ukrainian American commu­
nity and had no intention of becoming embroiled in its
conflicts.
On September 27 and 28, he met with representa­
tives of the federation, the alliance, the UNA, the
UWA, the Providence Association and the Ukrainian
National Aid Association (a fraternal organization
founded in 1915), and lobbied on behalf of a united
front in winning recognition for the Ukrainian
National Republic.
Neither side, however, was willing to work with the
other and Mr. Bachynsky was forced to choose the
alliance, by then the more influential of the two
Ukrainian umbrella organizations. Disillusioned by
what they considered to be a betrayal of a common
socialist cause, federation leaders began to attack Mr.
Bachynsky and his mission, an action which only
served to alienate more members of the Ukrainian
American community. By the summer of 1920, the
federation, having lost its last bid for community
power, was no longer an influential force in the
Ukrainian political arena.
To be continued.

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facility, which is no longer usable or
used.
The record will also show that today
the Soviet Union operates at least
14 chemical weapon production
facilities. Its armies are better equipped,
better organized and better trained in
chemical warfare than any others in the
world. Each Soviet combat unit, down
to the regimental level, has a sizable
chemical warfare contingent. Chemical
warfare specialists are assigned at the
company level. It is estimated that there
are close to 100,000 personnel with
chemical warfare training, a training
which uses actual chemical agents.
Soviet artillery units are regularly
equipped with various kinds of chemical
warfare shells and other weapons. The
Soviet Union has without doubt invest­
ed heavily in all aspects of chemical
warfare.
My government, therefore, found
itself in a position of having unilaterally
renounced production of all chemical
weapons in 1969,while the Soviet Union
recklessly proceeded in an effort to gain
world supremacy in this area of warfare.
To meet this dilemma constructively,
reach an agreement with the Soviet
Union on a comprehensive and verifiable
joint ban on all chemical weapons.
I have been informed by experts that
the question of verification is a complex
and difficult one. We concluded that
on-site inspection was a prerequisite for
agreement. We found that the Soviet
Union rejected all suggestions for on-
site inspection. It appeared to us that
the Soviets had no incentive to enter
into an agreement with us. They
possessed a decisive advantage in this
field because of our inactivity and saw
no reason to give it up. Nevertheless,
they continue to talk, without decision;
and we saw that their purpose in going
through the form of the negotiation was
to impede the ability of the United
States to protect its own interests by
building an adequate deterrent capabi­
lity. We concluded that it was essential
to demonstrate to the Soviet Union that
we would now deny them any signifi­
cant military advantage from using
chemical weapons. We would improve
our defenses against their use and
thereby prayerfully reduce casualties;
but it was also necessary for us to
maintain a capability to retaliate so as
to reduce any incentive that the Soviets
might have for the first use of these
awful weapons.
It is thus the reluctant policy of the
United States to build and maintain a
chemical munitions stockpile to deny a
significant military advantage to any
who would seek to initiate their use. We
are making only those improvements
necessary to provide us with a credible
and effective deterrent.
It is our fervent hope that this pro­
gram will provide an incentive to the
Soviet Union to join us in seeking a
complete and verifiable ban on the
production, development and stock­
piling of all such weapons.
Our objective is not to produce
chemical weapons. We have demon­
strated the genuineness of that objective
by our unilateral action of 1969. Our
objective is to achieve a complete and
verifiable prohibition of chemical war­
fare. Our unilateral restraint has not
worked and has instead only resulted in
a significant imbalance between our
capability and that of the Soviets. It is
necessary for us to try another approach.
We are doing so.
The official position of our govern­
ment was stated in the following an­
nouncement from the White House:
"The administration's ultimate goal
in the area of chemical warfare (CW is
a complete and verifiable ban on the
production and stockpiling of chemical
weapons. Until such a ban can be
obtained, our objective, consistent with
existing treaties and international law,
is to deter the use of chemical weapons.
The U.S. will not use chemical weapons
unless chemical weapons are first used
against us or our allies. The U.S. does
not and will not possess biological or
toxic weapons."
We have had enough self-serving and
misleading allegations and assertions by
the Soviet Union here and elsewhere.
The search for peace will not be
achieved by propaganda. The search for
peace will be achieved by actions
consistent with peace. That is what our
delegation has been asking for at this
meeting. When we see action which
merits a constructive response from us,
I want to assure this body that our
response will be immediately and gener­
ously and enthusiastically forthcoming.
Until then we will expose the propa­
ganda for what it is, just as we will
continue to use this forum to expose the
violations of the Helsinki Final Act,
including the violence against the
people of Poland, for what they are.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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Panorama of Ukrainian culture in the Big
Regardless of the weather, the open­
ing of the Easter exhibit at The Ukrai­
nian Museum is a sure portent that
spring is just around that proverbial
corner, along with balmy temperatures
and greening leaves.
This year's display opened hut Satur­
day, as noted in The New York Times
Weekender Guide on March 5. Under
the headline "2nd Ave. Ukrainian
Eggs," The Times reported that "more
than 200 brilliantly colored Easter eggs,
decorated with stylized animals, flowers,
crosses and intricate geometric pat­
terns" would be on view at the museum,
203 Second Ave., near 13th Street, from
March 6 through May 16.
Scores of visitors crowded the mu­
seum on Saturday to examine and
exclaim over the complex designs and
vivid colorations of the eggs. More
visitors came on Sunday afternoon to
view the pysanky and to watch Easter-
egg experts as they used styluses,
beeswax and dyes to transform white
eggs into talismans ensuring wealth,
happiness and health.
The demonstrators were Malta Lo-
patynsky, Sophia Иеіук and Natalie
Duma, the coordinator of this year's
demonstration program.
Beginning this weekend, adults'
and children's workshops will be held
each Saturday and Sunday through
April 4, with a choice of morning and
afternoon sessions.
The myth and the magic of Ukrainian
pysanky will be explored during de­
monstration sessions and at the start of
each workshop with showings of Slavko
NowytaWs film "Pysanka: The Ukrai­
nian Easter Egg."
The Easter eggs will be on view
through May 16, Wednesday to Sun­
day, 1 to 5 p.m., with one more demon­
stration session scheduled for April 10.
Strike up the bandura
The New York School of Bandura is
awhirl with a number of new develop­
ments, reports administrative director
Nick Czorny. The school's students will
be taking part in Ukrainian Day in
Vineland, N.J., on May 8, cutting a first
record in mid-May, going on a picnic on
June 5, and participating in graduation
exercises June 17.
Biggest news at the moment is the
establishment of a new concert en­
semble affiliated with the school. Con­
sisting of some IS to 18 of the school's
outstanding bandura players, the en­
semble is presently rehearsing a mi­
nimum of three hours each Saturday
under the leadership of Julian Kytasty,
the school's young director. Next week­
end - from March 19 to 22 - the
group will meet with maestro Hryhory
Kytasty of Cleveland for intensive
rehearsals in preparation for a concert
tour that will include Rochester, N.Y.,
(May 1), Buffalo, N.Y., (May 2) and
Washington (sometime in May).
By special invitation, friends of the
bandura school will attend a general
rehearsal of the new ensemble on March
21 at 4 p.m. The rehearsal will be held in
the auditorium of the Ukrainian Libera­
tion Front Home, 136 Second Ave.
Still up in the air is the choice of a
name for the ensemble. The majority of
bandura players seem to favor "Zhyvi
Struny" (literally translated: Live
Strings), but Mr. Czorny says the group
is open to ideas.
Broadway attractions
" Add another star to your list of
THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY
by Helen Peroaak Smindak
Ukrainian personalities on the Great
White Way. George de la Pens, a soloist
with the American Ballet Theatre, is
now with the cast of "Woman of the
Year," the musical comedy hit starring
Lauren Bacall and Harry Guardlno.
The musical is playing at the Palace
Theatre, 1564 Broadway (757-2625).
Mr. de la Pena, who joined American
Ballet Theatre in December 1974 and
was made a soloist in the winter of 1977,
plays the role of a Russian ballet dancer
who defects. His ballet experience and
his Slavic background (his mother is
Ukrainian) undoubtedly serve him well
in this portrayal.
A native of New York City, the
dancer attended the School of Ameri­
can Ballet and graduated from the High
School of Performing Arts. He per­
formed with the St. Paul Civic Opera
and the Andre Eglevsky Ballet Com­
pany before joining ABT.
In 1979, Mr. de la Pena took a leave
of absence from the ABT company to
star in the title role of Herbert Ross's
film "Nijinsky." The film, released by
Paramount Pictures in New York in
March 1980, was not a box-office
success although critics generally con­
sidered that Mr. de la Pena did "re­
markably well" in managing Nijinsky's
emotional extremes.
During the ABT spring session at the
Metropolitan Opera House in 1981,
Mr. de la Pena was praised by dance
critics for his solo performances in
"Giselle," "Prodigal Son" and "The
Moor's Pavane."
' Re Jack Palaoce and the play "Now
You See It." Publicist Richard Dahl
told me several days ago that rehearsals
for the play have not begun, but not to
worry. I'm guessing that Mr. Palance is:
Announcement for Darin Dorosh's exhibit in Soho.
SUNDAY, MARCH 14,1982
a) rehearsing the play in the Big Apple
without fanfare, so he will not be
disturbed by over-enthusiastic reporters
and fans, or b) he is still "flirting with
Broadway," as he told New York Tunes
reporter Carol Lawson back in January
when be recalled "a whole list of plays I
almost did."
о My listing of Ukrainian stars on
Broadway (Panorama, February 21)
overlooked at least two important
personalities. William Shust, who will
be appearing in person at the Ukrainian
Institute of America on March 20,
performed in Broadway productions of
"The Country Girl," "The Owl and the
Pussycat" and "Arturo Ui." Laryssa
(Kukrycka) Laurel appeared in Ten­
nessee Williams's "The Night of the
Iguana," "Paris is Out" and "Julia, Jake
and Uncle Joe."
" In his review of Neil Simon's
musical revue "Little Me," now playing
at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, New
York Times critic Walter Kerr wrote
that the musical "has a kind of mistress
of ceremonies, or tour guide, who
pretends that Ukrainian dancers and
Citizen Kane and World War I are all
related to one another." According to
press representative Bill Evans, there is
a dance number in "Little Me" perform­
ed by dancers in kerchiefs and wide
skirts on the bed of the dying Prince
Cherny of the bankrupt duchy of
Rozenzweig. But, he says, they "could be
anyone — they're not meant to be
Ukrainian." Perhaps designer Tony
Walton's recent success in the Broad­
way hit "A Day in Hollywood, A Night
in the Ukraine" has made him partial to
costume designs with a Ukrainian
feeling.
" "The World of Sholom Aleichem,"
9
which presented Jack Gilford and "the
people of Heaven and Chelm" (get that
pun!) in three short plays during a brief
run at the Rialto Theatre, started with
"A Tale of Chelm" — a short play
"about foolish people living in a foolish
village in Russia." Chelm is the Polish
name for Kholm, a city in the north­
western Ukrainian province of Volyn
founded by Ukrainian King Daniel in
the 13th century. Interestingly, the
backdrop for "A Tale of Chelm" showed
a picturesque three-tiered wood church
like those native to the Carpathian
regions of Ukraine. Background music
for the show, played by an accordionist,
violinist and mandolin-player, featured
a recurring melody that brought to
mind the nostalgic highland folk song
"Verkhovyno." Despite the great cha­
racterizations done by Mr. Gilford and the
gentle charm of the three plays, "The
World of Sholom Aleichem" proved to
be "rather slender entertainment" (as
described by Stewart Klein of WNEW-
TV Channel 5) and the show, closed on
February 28.
" Carol Lawson of The New York
Times reported in one of her "Broad­
way" columns that a drama about the
Jews of Kiev will open on Broadway on
May 6. The work of a little-known
Jewish playwright, Aleksandr Borsh-
chagovsky, "Before the Dawn" is said to
recreate "the anguish of the Jews of
Kiev on the eve of their massacre by the
Nazis at the ravine of Babi Yar."
According to Miss Lawson, the play
was staged by a small Jewish theater
group in Moscow in October 1980.
Although it ran for only six perfor­
mances, it was "a rebuke of the Soviet
regime for its unwillingness to admit
that the Jews suffered worse than any
other ethnic group under the Nazi
occupation." It will be interesting to see
how Ukrainians fare in this production.
Resistant spaces
Paintings in combination with photo­
graphs and chairs form the latest works
of artist Darin Dorosh, and 11 of these
creations have been on exhibit at Soho's
A.I.R. Gallery since February 23.
New York City and area residents
who pick up this issue of The Weekly at
East Village newsstands on Friday
evening or who receive their subscrip­
tion copies in Saturday's mail can still
run over to Soho and catch the show. It
closes at 6 p.m. on March 13.
A.I.R. Gallery is located at 63 Crosby
St. (966-0799).
Newsworthy events
" Author Vasyl Barka, the first
winner of the Omelian and Tetiana
Anfonovych Foundation's 55,000 prize
for an outstanding Ukrainian literary
work, received the award during cere­
monies at the Ukrainian Institute on
February 13. Taking part in the cere­
monies were Mr. and Mrs. Anto-
novych, Mykola Lebed, head of the
committee which raised SI3,000 to
publish Mr. Barka's novel, and jury
members Prof. Yuriy Shevelov, Prof.
Bohdan Rubchak and Prof. Yuriy
Hmbovych. Mr. Barka's fourivolume
Ukrainian-language novel, Over 25
years in preparation, is titled "Svidok
dlia sontsia shestykrylykh."
о Mary Anne and Michael Herman,
who have been teaching folk dancing
for more than 35 years, were listed in the
Ethnic Folk-Dancing Circuit guide
(Continued on pafe 15)
10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 14,1982 NoJi

Sunday, March 14 Saturday, March 20

PITTSBURGH: "Christ's Passion,"
PREVIEW OF EVENTS NEW YORK: William Shust, Ame­
a performance of Ukrainian and Kononiw, the Homin Bandurist gram includes: address by Prof. rican actor of Ukrainian descent, will
Slavonic hymns of the Great Fast, Ensemble and St. John's choir. Wolodymyr Barahura, and perfor­ appear at the Ukrainian Institute of
will be held in the historic St. John Proceeds are earmarked, for the mances by the School of Bandura, America, 2 E. 79th St., at 7 p.m. The
the Baptist Ukrainian Church at completion of the Ukrainian Catho­ the Zhayvoronky Girls' Choir, the program will be composed of selec­
Seventh and Carson streets. The lic church in Lourdes. Tickets are S5 Promin vocal ensemble, recitation by tions from works by Taras Shev­
concert, sponsored by the Western at the door. Olia Szkafarowsky-Rudyk and mu­ chenko, Vasyl Symonenko and Lina
Pennsylvania Council of the League sical selections by Ukrainian Music Kostenko. A reception will follow.
of Ukrainian Catholics, begins at 5 NEW YORK: Opening of an exhibit Institute students, Yurko Furda, Suggested donation: S15, students
p.m. of paintings by Bohuslava Hnativ at Orest Harasymchuk and Yarema and senior citizens — S5.
I p.m. at the Ukrainian Sports Club Bachynsky. Tickets at S5 and S4 are
PHILADELPHIA: St. John the of New York, 122 Second Ave. The available at the Arka, Eko and Sunday, March 11
Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church exhibit continues through March 20.
choir is holding a concert dedicated Featured are ISO works, including Tuesday, March 16 ABINGTON TOWNSHIP, Pa.: U-
to the appearance of the Blessed oils, watercolors and charcoal draw­ krainian Americans for the Re-
Mother in Lourdes, France. The ings. PITTSBURGH: WQED FM (89.3) Election of Congressman Charles F.
concert will be held in the will present "Tenor Evon Kozlovsky, Dougherty are, sponsoring a fund-
Immaculate Conception Cathedral NEW YORK: A concert in tribute to from Ukraine" at 10 p.m. raising reception at 6:30 p.m. at the
auditorium on Franklin Street at 4 Taras Shevchenko will be held at Ukrainian Educational and Cultural
p.m. Program includes: address by 2:30 p.m. at Washington Irving High Thursday, March 18 Center, 700 Cedar Road. Contribu­
the Rev. Vasyl Perejma of Lourdes, School, 17th Street and Irving Place, tion: S25. Rep. Dougherty is the
soprano Marta Kokolska-Musijts- by the United Ukrainian American PITTSBURGH: An exhibit of Rem founder and co-chairman of the Ad
chuk, recitation by Oksana and Organizations of New York and the Bahautdin's newest works — compo­ Hoc Committee on the Baltics and
Yaroslav Rudakevych and Iwanna Shevchenko Scientific Society. Pro- sitions in metal, focusing on histori­ Ukraine, a group that now includes
cal and religious themes — opens at 90 members of Congress. For further
the Frick Fine Arts Building of the information call: Irene Skulsky (215)
University of Pittsburgh, sponsored 969-6313; Nila Pawluk, 265-6047;
New York to honor patriarch by the Ukrainian Nationality Room Christine Shust, 947-2795; or Halya
Committee of the university. A wine Kozak, 763-3440.
with concert at Cooper Union and cheese reception will open the
exhibit at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, and NEW YORK: Titus Hewryk will
by Marta Zielyk father. She continued her studies with the showing will run through Sun­ speak on the annihilated churches of
Dr. Samuel Applebaum, well-known day, March 21. The exhibit features Kiev at the Ukrainian Academy of
NEW YORK - In celebration of author and teacher at the Manhattan over 50 works. Arts and Sciences, 206 W. 100th St.,
Patriarch Josyf Slipyj's 90th birthday a School of Music. Currently Ms. Kup­ at 2 p.m.
concert will be presented in the audito­ chynsky is a junior at the New England TORONTO: The Chair of Ukrainian
rium of The Cooper Union here on Conservatory of Music in Boston. Studies at the University of Toronto Monday, March 22
March 20. Ms. Kupchynsky performed as a will sponsor a lecture by Dr. John
The performers will be: Andriy Do- soloist in New York, New Jersey, Fizer of Rutgers University, who will NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Insti­
briansky, well-known bass-baritone Vermont, Massachusetts, Maine and speak on Alexander Potebnia, the tute of America initiates its new
with the Metropolitan Opera Company Pennsylvania. She was the New Jersey distinguished 19th century Ukrai­ program of courses, including Ukrai­
in New York City, the Dumka chorus; state winner of the American String nian linguist, ethnographer,and nian history (Mondays), culture
and Lidia Krushelnytsky's Drama Teachers Association solo competition, literary critic. Dr. Fizer will analyze (Tuesdays), language (Wednesdays),
Studio, all of New York. and first-place winner in the Garden "Potebnia`s view of the Structure of independent studies in language and
Also featured will be: Laryssa Krupa, State Philharmonic Society Young the Work of Poetic Art." Dr. Fizer literature, and English as a second
pianist; Christina Romana Lypeckyj, Artist Solo Competition in 1979. received his Ph.D. from Columbia language (Wednesdays). All courses
mezzo-soprano; and Melanie Kupchyn- University and since 1961 he has are offered at 6-7:45 p.m. For infor­
sky, violinist. Currently Ms. Kupchynsky is a taught in the department of Slavic mation and registration call (212)
The Rev. Marian Butrynsky from member of the New England Conser­ languages and literatures at Rutgers. 288-8660. Fee: 535.
Chicago will be the speaker of the vatory Symphony Orchestra and is He is the author of many studies
evening. preparing for a concert tour of Europe dealing with literary theory and Thursday, March 25
Ms. Krupa began her music studies at in the spring. aesthetics, including a recent book
the age of 5 at the Academy of Music in Ms. Lypeckyj, mezzo-soprano, was titled "Psychologism and Psycho- CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: Dr. Bohdan
Philadelphia. Since an early age she has born in Stanyslaviv, Ukraine. As a aesthetics" (1981). Dr. Fizer's lecture Bociurkiw of Carleton University
performed in numerous concerts, festi­ young girl, Ms. Lypeckyj moved to on Potebnia begins at 4 p.m. in the will speak on "Soviet Suppression of
vals and solo recitals. She has been a Germany where she studied voice, Debates Room of Hart House at the the U k r a i n i a n Greek Catholic
winner of many piano competitions, ballet, piano and languages. Upon her University of Toronto. The public is Church in Galicja, 1945-6" at 3:30
including the New Jersey Foundation arrival in the United States, she conti­ invited. p.m. in the parlor of the Phillips
for the Performing Arts Piano Compe­ nued vocal studies. Brooks House at Harvard Univer­
tition. sity. The talk is exclusively for
Ms. Lypeckyj has sung major roles in members in good standing of the
Ms. Krupa holds bachelor's and many operas, among them "Carmen," Friday, March 19
master's degrees from the Peabody Mrs. Nolan in Menotti's "Medium," Friends of the Harvard Ukrainian
Conservatory in Baltimore. She also Charlotta in Massenet's "Werther,"and CHICAGO: The opening of an exhi­ Research Institute. For information
holds a diploma with honors from the Azucera in Verdi's "П Trovatore." She bit of 62 watercolors by Anatole call: (617) 495-4053.
Ukrainian Music Institute of America. has performed with various symphony Kolomayets at 8 p.m. at the Senior
Most recently Ms. Krupa performed orchestras and opera companies in the Citizen Home, 2355 W. Chicago WARREN, Mich.: The second an­
as soloist with the Rome Festival United States and Canada. Ave. Introductory remarks will be nual Spring Fashion Show will
Orchestra, as part of a summer festival Ms. Lypeckyj was one of the three made by Mr. J. Vasyliw. The exhibit feature a very unique ensemble of
in Italy, in which she has participated finalists in the Metropolitan Opera will run for three days, March 19-21. hand-embroidered fashion clothing
for the past two years. Regional Auditions (1971) and is listed Hours are from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on with designs originating from vari-
Ms. Kupchynsky started playing the in the 10th edition of Who's Who of Saturday and Sunday. (Corrtlnued on page 12)
violin at age 4 under the tutelage of her American Women. тжмжмишшаміиііііііі н — і н іліагаиащ

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been sent to Ukraine to speed up grain

Why did... deliveries and destroy Skrypnyk. The
(Continued from pap 6) two tasks were inseparable.
Failing to defeat the Ukrainian Stalin wrote in 1925: "The nationa­
countryside by force of arms, the lity question is by its basis a peasant
question." He understood that the
MAKAR'S JEWELRY
Bolsheviks hoped concessions would
work. As early as 1919, the Bolsheviks suppression of the Ukrainian nation THE UKRAINIAN JEWELRY STORE
recognized Shevchenko Day and began could not be accomplished unless its has moved to a new location:
to tolerate the use of the Ukrainian social basis, the Ukrainian peasantry,
language. In 1921 the New Economic was also suppressed. It had been the
Policy was proclaimed; the peasantry regime's inability to suppress the coun­ MAKAR'S JEWELRY STORE
was freed from forced requisitions and try people which led to the adoption of
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1923 Ukrainization was proclaimed, zation, and the abandonment of one

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ordered to learn the Ukrainian language when it had been unable to.do so during
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intolerable. Mykola Skrypnyk was abolished, the "komnezamy" were in Rochester, N.Y. during the week of May 24, 1982.
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the history of Ukraine as a distinctive priesthood, and often the arrest of the
process before Mykhailo Hrushevsky village schoolteachers, went hand in
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avant-guard were attacked for not the cities as a means of decapitating the
following the lead of Russian "proleta­ nation, that collectivization was carried
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EASTER PYSANKY
rian writers."
The 1930 show-trial of the Union for for Ukrainian grain as a proportion of
the total Soviet harvest were higher
the Liberation of Ukraine was at least
than in Russia. The re-Russification of
partially a provocation against Skryp­ the cities in the 1930s was designed to
nyk, since one of the charges was that push Ukrainian nationhood back to the
linguists had engaged in "sabotage" by land where Ukrainian "kolhospnyky"
asserting the distinctiveness of the were legally attached to the soil by
Ukrainian language, and Skrypnyk had means of the internal passport system.
been personally involved in this "sabo­ All p r e p a r a t i o n s for t h e m a k i n g of our lovoly traditional
tage" (although no one said so until All this meant war against the Ukrai­ P Y S A N K Y , t h e d e c o r a t e d Easter E g g .
1933). It is also no coincidence that nian peasantry, a war in which food was
Skrypnyk's final disgrace and suicide the major weapon and mass starvation
D y e s i n I S d i f f e r e n t s h a d e s , 5 d i f f e r e n t styluses i n c l u d i n g
coincide with the famine; Postyshev had the sign of Stalin's victory.
one electric, beeswax, design sheers, instruction books,
c a r d s i n color - s o l d s e p a r a t e l y a n d i n K I T S a t H a n u s e y ' s .
The UNA:
more than an insurance company Also a v a i l a b l e - r e a d y m a d e p y s a n k y , w o o d e n Easter e g g s ,
e g g h o l d e r s , E a s t e r c a r d s i n d i f f e r e n t l a n g u a g e s . Scarfs f o r
Easter food baskets.

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Preview... Newark, NJ.: "Hromada: Ukrai­

nian Folklife in New Jersey" is the
(Continued from page 10) theme of symposia, a concert and
exhibits to be held at Rutgers Uni­
ous regions of Ukraine. Fashions will versity, Robeson Student Center,
include evening wear for women of under the sponsorship of the New
all ages, casual clothes with a dis­ Jersey Regional Council of the U-
tinctive Ukrainian accent, as well as krainian National Women's League
children's styles. The show is spon­ of America, New Jersey Historical
sored by the Ukrainian National Commission, Rutgers University,
Women's League of America, Branch Ukrainian National Association and
45, and will be held at 6 p.m. at the The Ukrainian Museum. The pro­
Ukrainian Cultural Center located gram is funded by a grant from the
on Ryan Road, just south of Eleven New Jersey Committee for the Hu­
Mile. The program begins with a full- manities. The day's events include
course dinner followed by a parade symposia on "History, Society and
of new fashions. A raffle will take Folklore" at 9:15 a.m. and "Folk
place at the end of the show. Tickets Music and Folk Art" at 10:45 a.m., a
for the dinner and show are S 12.50 luncheon featuring Ukrainian foods
per person and are available in at noon, a folk music concert at 2
advance at the EKO Gallery located p.m. and an opening reception of
in the Ukrainian Village Plaza on exhibits of "Ukrainian Material Folk
Ryan Road. For ticket information Culture" and "Photographic Essay: Seen above are some of contemporary Ukrainian artiste who will be partici­
call Mrs. Kolodchin at 755-3535. Contemporary Ukrainian Folklife in pating in a group exhibit at the Ukrainian Institute of America. Standing,
New Jersey" at 4 p.m. For informa­ from left, are: Larissa Lawrynenko, Anya Farion, Попа Sochynsky-
tion call David S. Cohen at the New Shyprykevich, Oresta Sieparowycz; seated:. Hilary Zarycky, Anya
Saturday, March 27
Jersey Historical Commission in Rejnarowycz-Borysenko, Olga Maryschuk.
Trenton, (609) 292-6062.
NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Me­ nian Artists of New York at 3 p.m. at RICHMOND, Va.: Ukrainian Or­
dical Association of North America the Ukrainian Institute of America, 2 thodox liturgy will be celebrated by
will hold a wine-tasting fund raiser Sunday, March 28 E. 79th St. Works by the following the Rev. Anatole Bulawka, pastor of
for the benefit of the Ukrainian artists will be displayed: Anya Rejna­St. Michael's Ukrainian Orthodox
Institute of America at the institute, 2 NEW YORK: Opening reception of rowycz-Borysenko, Anya Farion, Church in Baltimore, at noon in the
E. 79th St., at 7 p.m. Exhibition of Contemporary Ukrai- Sisters of Verona Chapel, 1307
Vera Hrywniak, Larissa Lawry­ Lakeside Ave., just off Route 1. A
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Salewycz, Попа Sochynsky-Shy- tribute to Tares Shevchenko will
prykevich, Alex Sibirny, Oresta follow in the adjacent school audi­
Sheparowycz, Stella Bodak-War- torium. The event, a first for Ukrai­
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Concert dedicated...
(Continued from page 5)
every last crevice in the plush wood-
and-cloth appointment of the old hall.
Welcome also was the appearance of
the 50-strong Prometheus Male Choir,
directed by Michael Dlaboha, which
enhanced the program with a flair and
blend reminiscent of their electric
performances of Ukrainian folk and
programmatic songs. The choir's recent
effort to expand into the realm of
classical concert repertory is ambitious.
But this particular concert simply
begged for the vintage Prometheus
sound. For the same reason, the cho­
rus's finale for the akademia, Stetsenko^s
programmatic chorale, "On a Blessed
Sunday Morn" — featuring the top
soloist, baritone Dior Kushnir, and the
experienced pianist, Irene Pelech - was
a much-needed touch to the two-hour-
plus affair.
Ironically, the intended artistic inte­
grity of the program was shaken by
some inexcusable tampering within the
forbidden areas of serious music-
making. Appearing as the second
chorus (with two "Psalms" by j)ort-
niansky) was the Archeparchal Metro­
politan Joint Mixed Chorus which, all
else notwithstanding, is a worthy testi­
monial to its inspired, enthusiastic
patron-founder, then-apostolic admi­
nistrator and current Stamford Bishop
Basil H. Losten, who, incidentally,
provided some lively concluding re­
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gleaned from several parish choirs.
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professional direction by a talented and
knowledgeable conductor, then this
group might in the future become a
crown jewel in the archexarchate's
flourishing cultural legacy. Unfortu­
nately, a Newark, N.J., cantor, albeit of
many years' service, Michael Dobosh,
simply is mismatched as the chorus's
director.
But what was still more embarrassing
and outrageous on Sunday, however,
was the travesty that was allowed to be
perpetrated upon the sacrosanct do­
main of Ukraine's greatest church
composer, Dmytro Stepanovych Bort-
niansky (1751-1825). By splicing onto
the two selections by this composer
some kind of a trinket of a piano
accompaniment, Mr. Dobosh changed
the beautiful music beyond repair.
What serious musician would dream
of patching in an " o o m - p a h - p a h "
introduction and "accompaniment"
(octaved counter-bass line and mis­
matched chords, no less) to help Bort-
niansky along? The original music
demands performance a cappella. That
is, a cappella, with both Haydenesque
articulation and Beethovenesque
dramaturgy! Why, even the popular
orchestral conductor Leopold Stokow-
sky was publicly roundly condemned
for juicing up Bach and others when he
added several extra instruments, espe­
cially string basses in order to generate a
"bigger," thicker sound effect. So,
certainly a lesser license for musical
revisionism obliges upon the Ukrainian
Metropolitan Chorus — and everyone
else, for that matter.
No amount of ridiculous punting, so
to speak, would ever help the hapless
Monday-morning quarterback in сар–
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turing the eluded winning point. The
fact is, too, that Bortniansky, like Bach
the late, dynamic Archbishop Sheen,
who with combined humaneness and
and others of his calibre, is definitely in asceticism, grabbed the wretched soul by
the big musical league; meaning, one its very contritable collar and waxed
rightfully accessible only to scrupulous near verse from mere homily's cadence.
and qualified direction, if even of the The akademia served well its рифове
best performers. because it helped to demonstrate mass
The concert's chief speaker, like a devotion and tribute to Patriarch Josyf.
latter-day Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, was It also provided a number of'truly
Chicago's Bishop Innocent Lotocky inspired moments. Hopefully, though,a
OSBM — long-time pastor at Man­ 100th anniversary (1992) will produce
hattan's St. George Church, and later in the kind of cultural tribute manifestly
Hamtramck, Mich. His rhetoric and consistent and worthy of that unprece­
erudition evoked vivid resemblance to dented occasion.
Woonsocket, R.I. і Vicinity
UNA DISTRICT COMMITTEE
announces that
ANNUAL DISTRICT COMMITTEE MEETING
will be held
Sunday, March 14, 1982 at 1:00 p.m.
at St. Michael Ukrainian Orthodox Church Hail
74 Harris Avenue m WOONSOCKET, R.I.
Invited and obligated to attend, are officers of the District Committee, two representatives from each
Branch and convention delegates of the following Branches:
73, 177 in Providence, 93 in Central Falls, 122 in Taurrton,
206 Ь 241 in Woonsocket R.I.
PROGRAM:
1. Report and discussion
2. Election of District Committee Officers
3 Adoption of District Program fo: 1982
Present at the Meeting will be
W a s y l O l i c h O W S k y , UNA Supreme Organizer
UNA District Committee
Summer 1982:
MAKE IT A SOYUZIVKA SUMMER
Be a part of the exciting experience generations of
Ukrainian Americans have come to treasure:
SOYUZIVKA.
Tennis Camp June 2 0 - J u n e 30
Boys'Camp
Girls'Camp Г
June 1 9 - J u l y 3
July 3 - J u l y 17
Stylized Ukrainian Folk Dancing Workshop
(Beginners 8. Advanced)
Roma Pryma Bohachevsky, instr July 18-31
Celebration of the Ukrainian Child
Celebration of Youth
August 1-7
August 7-14
Ukrainian Cultural Courses August 1-14
Traditional Ukrainian Folk Dancing Workshop
(Beginners 4 Advanced)
Peter Marunczak, instr August 15-28
For additional information, please write to:
SOYUZIVKA, UNA ESTATE
Foordemore Rd. m Kerhonkson, NY. 12446 a Or call (914) 626-5641
14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 14,1982 No.ll

Reflections...
A REPORT -`-. - -. (Continued from page 6)
ON THE MEMORIAL FUND RAISING CAMPAIGN
wages were cut — 40 percent in the
FOR THE BULDING OF THE UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC mines and IS percent nationwide in
NATIONAL SHRINE OF THE 1885.
Few options were open to the ex­
HOLY FAMILY, WASHINGTON, D C . ploited. Not even the public schools
offered a way out. During the 1890s,
Press Release 016 (As of December 31, 1981)
more of Chicago's public school chil­
PART TWO : dren dropped out of school than gra­
duated. As late as 1938,' 10 percent of
UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC PARISHES VISITED BY CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR , New York's school-age children did hot
FR. JOSEPH BENISCHUK. C.SS.R.
go beyond elementary school and 75
(October 15, 1978 to December 31, 1981) percent never finished high school.

Dates Locations Parishes Memorials L . D o n a t i o .i s Total Then, as now, social theorists deve­
10/15/78 R i c h m o n d , Va. St. John t h e B a p t i s t 8 . 9 529,583.00 loped fantasies to justify current social
10/22/78 E l i z a b e t h , N. J . St. Vladimir 32 184 24,131.00 policies. Since the red man was "a
l l / 5 / 7 8 C a r t e r e t , N. J . menace" and the black man was I n ­
S t . Mary 12 58 6,767.00
ferior," placing them on reservations
11/12/78 P e r t h Amboy, N . J . A s s u m p t i o n o f B.V.M. 29 113 22,341.00 and j slave plantations was ultimately
11/19/78 N e w a r k , N. J . St. John t h e B a p t i s t 56 188 41,938.00 "for their own good."
11/26/78 Passaic, N.J. St. Nicholas 9 48 7,357.00
Reflecting the Calvinism of the
12/ 3 / 7 8 J e r s e y C i t y , N.Y. SS. P e t e r and P a u l 19 57 29,275.00 Puritans and the social Darwinism of
12/10/78 Bayonne, N . J . A s s u m p t i o n o f B.V.M. 6 26 3,928.00 Spencer, later policy apologists defined
1/21/79 Hillside, N.J. Immaculate Conception/BVM 7 27 5,821.00 poverty in terms of the inability of poor
1/28/79 Whippany, N . J . S t . John t h e B a p t i s t 16 21 10,236.00 people to "adapt." The rich had over­
1/28/79 Ramsey, N . J . St. Paul 1 7 1,130.00 come adversity, they argued, because
2/ 4/79 Manville, N.J. St. Michael 18 19 11,917.00 they were "fit."
2/11/79 Trenton, N.J. St. Josaphat 6 19 5,125.00 Another historical fantasy recently
2/18/79 Millville, N.J. St. Nicholas , 3 7 2,505.00 resurrected by the Conservative esta­
2/18/79 Woodbine, N . J . St. Nicholas 3 6 1,040.CO blishment is the bromide regarding
2/25/79 P h i l a d e l p h i a , Pa. I m m a c u l a t e C o n c e p t ion/BVM 21 56 20,797.00 local initiative. "We have drifted a long
3/ A/79 P h i l a d e l p h i a , Pa. A n n u n c i a t i o n o f BVM 10 15 9,975.00 way from the old moorings," writes
3/11/79 Philadelphia, Pa. 21 94 18,086.00 James Kilpatrick, ". . .from local
C h r i s t t h e King
3/18/79 9,217.00 responsibility."
B r i d g e p o r t , Pa. SS. P e t e r a n d P a u l 8 24
3/25/79 Philadelphia, Pa. 38 13,567.00 The doctrine that welfare is a local
St. Josaphat 21
4 / 1/79 17,758.00 responsibility is an did oiie. It'was
S y r a c u s e , N.Y. S t . John t h e B a p t i s t 27 46
articulated by President Franklin Pierce
4/29/79 Chester, Pa. Holy Ghost 13 23 11,555.00
in 1854 when he rejected federal in­
5/ 6 / 7 9 B a l t i m o r e , Md. St. Michael 11 32 9,354.00
volvement because, as 'he put it, "the
5/20/79 B r i s t o l , Pa. P a t r o n a g e o f BVM 5 4 4,730.00 fountains of charity will be dried Up at
5/27/79 Philadelphia, Pa. N a t i v i t y o f BVM 6 2 2,700.00 home'4 and the states will beepme
6/ 3/79 Wilmington, Del. St. Nicholas 8 18 , 7,763.00. ; "humble supplicants'lor" the bounty' of
6/ 3/79 Chesapeake C i t y , Md.St. B a s i l 6 3 3,565.00 the federal gowrtimnt?Vrib`htiTuLbdy
6/10/79 C u r t i s B a y , Md. SS. P e t e r and P a u l 3 21 1,330.00 for the poor andnndsrprivileged whose
6/24/79 Toronto, Ont. Holy E u c h a r i s t 4 3 8,690.00 options for most of American histbry
9/ 9/79 Berwick, Pa. SS. C y r i l and M e t h o d i u s ' 6 31 4,416.00 were generaily limited to mdehtuffed
9/16/79 F r a c k v i l l e , Pa. St. Michael 6 32 3,589.00 service, commitment to almshouses and
9/23/79 Shamokin, Pa. 10 57 10,738.00 occasional food parcels, the "fountain"
Holy T r a n s f i g u r a t i o n
9/30/79 234 9,794.00 was already dry. Left to the discretion of
Northampton, Pa. S t . John t h e B a p t i s t 19
10/14/79 local authorities, relief was: so limited,
Shenandoah, Pa. St. Michael 3 15 2,460.00
haphazard and fragmentary that, in
10/14/79 Mahanoy C i t y , P a . St. Nicholas 1 17 482.00
most instances, there was little if any
10/21/79 St. C l a i r , Pa. Holy T r i n i t y 7 18 4,973.00 permanent amelioration.
10/21/79 St. Clair, Pa. St. Nicholas 7 37 6,021.00
10/28/79 Centralia, Pa. A s s u m p t i o n o f BVM 3 12 17,372.00
And yet, despite the later hardships of
l l / 4/79 C l i f t o n H e i g h t s , Pa.SS. P e t e r and Paul 9 21 8,855.00
immigration and cyclical depressions,
11/11/79 Mount C a r m e l , P a . SS. P e t e r a n d P a u l 4 15 1,981.00
the local responsibility principle pre­
11/18/79 Parma, Ohio S t . Andrew 23 13 15,175.00
vailed. As late as 1931, when 8 million
11/18/79 Parma, Ohio St. Josaphat 32 39 35,050.00 , Americans were out of work, President
l l / 2 / 7 9 C l e v e l a n d , Ohio SS. P e t e r and P a u l 4 36 4,596.00 Herbert Hoover's Organization for
1 2 / 9 / 7 9 S. S i d e C l e v e l a n d , O . r a t r r o n a g e o f BVM 4 4 1,940.00 Unemployment Relief was still publiciz­
2/ 3/00 Bethlehem, Pa. St. Josaphat 23 16 15,525.00 ing the need for charity і reaffirming the
2/ 10/80 A l l e n t o w n , Pa. Immaculate Conccption/BVM 14 7 6,000.00 virtues of local control and calling for
2/ 17/00 Palmerton, Pa. St. Vladimir 2 19 820.00 the better "coordination" of local
2 / 2 4 / 8 0 W. E a s t o n , P a . Holy Ghost 15 ' 13 8,244.00 initiatives.
3/ 2 / 8 0 Brooklyn, N.Y. Holy Ghost 12 21 11,046.00
3/ 9 / 8 0 Johnson C i t y , N.Y. Sacred Heart of Jesus 16 , із 10,490.00 America has come a long way in
- 3/16/80 Minersville, Pa. St. Nicholas 42 ' 32 20,435.00 recent years, and it is for this that we owe
3/16/80 Middleport, Pa. N a t i v i t y o f BVM 6 4 2,025.00 a debt to divine providence. As we
3/23/80 Olyphant, Pa. reflect on our past in times such as these,
SS. C y r i l a n d M e t h o d i u s 11 19 73,750.00
3/30/80 F r e s h M e a d o w s , N . Y . A n n u n c i a t i o n o f BVM we should be wary of those who cling to
17 7 15,265.00
4/20/8Г) romantic fantasies and develop policy
Phoenixville, Pa. SS. P e t e r and P a u l 10 12 4.685.00
on the basis of doctrinal optimism; if
4/27/80 Lansdale, Pa. P r e s e n t a t i o n o f Our Lord 9 6 9,747.00 our nation is to remain the beacon of
4/27/80 Quakertown, Pa. St. Basil 1 300.GO hope for the oppressed and the e x ­
5/ 4/80 Edwardsvllle, Pa. St. Vladimir 4 47 4,429.00 ploited of the world, we cannot, we dare
5/ 4/80 Plymouth, Pa. SS. Pete`r and P a u l 4 71 2,751.50 not, rum back. `;IK-!
5/11/80 Wilkes Barre, Pa. S S . P e t e r (, P a u l 5 17 2,586.00
5/25/80 Glen Spey, N.Y. S t . Volodymyr 4 15 12,300.00
6/ 8/80 Simpson, Pa. SS. P e t e r a n d P a u l 2 22 . 1,657.00
6/15/80 McAdoo, P a . P a t r o n a g e o f BVM 18 19 7,984.00
6/29/00 M a n a s s a s , Va. S t . Mary 3 4 2,090.00 Epic of Past Glory! `
E p i p h a n y c f Our L o r d 0 57 6,560.00
9/20/80
101 5 / 8 0
R o c h e s t e r , N.Y.
B u f f a l o , N.Y. St. Nicholas 33 71 20,069.00
THE VLES OF DAWN
10/12/00 L a n c a s t e r , N.Y. St. Basil 2 7 773.00 by Yuriy Buriakiwec
10/19/00 N i a g a r a F a l l s , N,Y S t . Mary 11 6 4,195.00 452 pp. New York, 1982.
10/26/00 Lackawanna, N.Y. Our L a d y o f P e r p e t u a l Help 22 6 21,515.00 Published in Ukrainian.
l l / 2/80 U t i c a , N.Y. S t . Volodymyr 2 9 602.00 Recommended for our friends
by VLESSIANA.
Victor Kachur, Secretary
; (Continued Qnpa^t (5)
Nail THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 14,1982 15

Manor announces A report...

optometry program (CoattDued from page 14)

JENKINTOWN, Pa. - The Penn­ 111 9/80 Amsterdam, N.Y. S t . Nicholas 9 30 11,404.00
sylvania College of Optometry and 11/15/80 S t . J o h n e v l l l e , N.Y. Immaculate ConceptIon/BVM 1 25.00
Manor Junior College have announced 11/16/OC Rome, N.Y. S t . Michael 1 2 350.00
the establishment of the joint optome- 11/16/80 L i t t l e F a l l s , N.Y. S t . Nicholas 3 5 3,042.00
tric technician program. 11/23/80 Watervliet, N.Y. S t . Nicholas 25 31 15,506.00
An optometric technician is educated 11/30/80 Cohoes, N.Y. SS. Peter a Paul 10 15 5,443.00
and trained to perform a variety of 12/14/80 Troy, N.Y. Protection of BVM 9 10 5,700.00
patient-care procedures under the direct 12/21/80 Yorkton, Sask. Mother of Perpetual Help 7 4,425.00
1
supervision of an optometrist Techni­
cal skills include pre-examination, 12/31/80 Winnipeg, Man. S t . Joseph 3 7 4,120.00
screening, and special testing proce­ 1/25/80 Saskatoon, Sask. SS. Peter ф Paul 2 1 4,350.00
dures, frame styling and dispensing, 2/ 1/81 New B r i t a i n , Conn. S t . Josaphat 14 13 8,830.00
contort lens assisting, and vision train­ 2/ 8/81 Ludlow, Mass. SS. Peter and Paul 4 0 1,650.00
ing administration and procedures. 2/ 8/81 St D e e r f i e l d , Mass. Holy Ghost 3 4 1,695.00
The two-year program provides gene­ 2/15/81 Hartford, Conn. S t . Michael 35 18 27,500.00
ral education, technical coursework and 2/15/81 Glastonbury, Conn. St. John the Baptist 5 2 2,910.00
clinical experience leading to an asso­ 2/22/81 T e r r y v i l l e , Conn. S t . Michael 30 12 19,247.00
ciate of science degree. It is one of only 15 3/ 1/01 Wil'limatic, Conn. Protection of BVM 11 10 7,605.00
similar programs in the United States 3/ 8/81 Colchester, Conn. S t . Mary 7 u 4,497.00
and the only in the Middle Atlantic area 3/15/31 Bridgeport, Conn. Protection of BVM 13 7 9,980.00
associated with a college of optometry. 3/22/81 New Haven, Conn. S t . Michael 34 26 32,950.00
The optometric technician program 3/29/81 Boston, Mass. Christ the King 22 22 16,873.00
is Manor's sixth program within their 4/ 5/81 Elmira H g t s . , N.Y. S t . Nicholas 4 11 3,562.00
Allied Health Division, and it is PCO's 4/ 5/81 Bath, N. Y. Christ the King 9 500.00
second joint program. Recruitment of
4/12/01 Hempstead, N.Y. St. Vladimir 20 4 16,050.00
students and placement of graduates is
expected throughout the Middle Atlan­ 5 / 3/01 Auburn, N.Y. SS. Peter and Paul 15 25 11,290.00
tic Region. The first class is scheduled to 5/10/01 Woonsocket, R.I. S t . Michael 6 6 4,750.00
be admitted for fall 1982. 5/10/01 F a l l River, Mass. S t . John the Baptist 13 3 6,250.00
Manor's faculty and facilities will 5/17/01 Ozone Park, N.Y. Patronage of BVM 24 5 13,700.00
provide the general education course- 5/24/81 Manchester, N.H. P r o t e c t i o n of BVM 10 14 10,570.00
work, preparing the students for an 5/31/01 Salem, Mass. St. John the Baptist 9 2 5,260.00
active role in people-oriented health 9/27/81 Staten Island,N.Y. Holy T r i n i t y 15 1 9,300.00
care and for continued personal growth. 10/ 4/01 Riverhead, N.Y. St. John the Baptist 16 13 11,323.00
The technical course work will be 10/11/81 Brooklyn, N.Y. S t . Nicholas 9 24 5,064.00
offered at PCO, with lectures and 10/18/81 West I s l i p , N.Y. Holy T r i n i t y 1 6 1,070.00
laboratories addressing a wide scope of 10/25/81 Spring V a l l e y , N.Y. SS. Peter (, Paul 10 10 29,370.00
patient care skills. Students are assigned l l / 1/81 P i t t s f i e l d , Mass. S t . John the Baptist 4 14 2,400.25
to over 500 hours of clinical experience l l / 1/81 Hudson, N.Y. S t . Nicholas 3 17 1,256.00
primarily in the Eye Institute. l l / 8/81 Dearborn H g t s . , MI. Our Ledy of Perpetual Help26 32 14,481.00
Admission requirements and further 11/15/81 Dearborn, Mich. St. Michael C 6 4,560.00
information regarding the optometric 11/22/81 D e t r o i t , Mich. S t . John the Baptist 34 25 18,583.00
technician program are available from: 11/22/81 Hamtramck, Mich. Immaculate Conception /BVM - 50 716.00
Admissions Office, Manor Junior Col­
lege, Fox Chase Road and Forrest Ave., 11/29/81 Warren, Mich. S t . Josaphat 1 9 3 74.00
Jenkintown, Pa. 19046,(215)884-2216. 11/29/01 Madison, 111. S t . Mary-Protection 5 2 4,512.00
11/29/01 S t . Louis, Mo. S t . Mary-Assumption 0 10 4,646.00
12/ 6/01 F l i n t , Mich. S t . Vladimir's 11 1 6,400.00
Panorama..
(Contfaocd from page 9)
which accompanied a recent Times TOTAL FROM 115 PARISHES AS OF DECEMBER 31, 1901 1348 2810 1,112,939.25
feature story "Where to Texas Two-
Step or Czardas Any Night." Said Mrs. TOTAL FROM HOLY FAMILY FARISH, WASHINGTON, D. C.,
Herman: "Folk dancing is one of the AS OF DECEMBER 31, 1901 204 96 749,859.00
few activities that incorporate every­
thing. As you dance, you get to use your
whole body. And you don't need a GENERAL REPORT OF MEMORIAL FUND RAISING CAMPAIGh
partner.'' The Hermans offer weekly
evening programs, which they call
"Folk Dance House," at churches in the ( S e p t . 14, 1975 - Dec. 31 1981)
suburbs, and teach once a week at the
George Tomov Studio in Manhattan Benefactors Amount Pledged Cash R e c e i v e d
and at the Brightwaters Library in Bay
Shore, Long Island.
о Baritone George Bohacbevsky and
204 Memorials from t h e Holy Family 5 734 664 . 0 0 5 464,191.20
ballet dancer Tans Kstlba were among Ukrainian C a t h o l i c P a r i s h
New York City Opera company regu­ Washington, DJ.C.
lars who were praised by Times critic
Bernard Holland for their perfor­ 96 Lesser Donations from 15 195 . 0 0 15,027.50
mances in "La Traviata," the company's
spring season opener. Mr. Holland Holy Family P a r i s h ,
noted the "competent" work of Mr. Washington, D.C.
Bohachevsky and several other cast
members, and described Mr. Kalba and 1390 Memorials from t h e United S t a t e s 1,104, 818 . 0 0 812,144.61
his partner, Esperanza Galan, as "at­
tractive dancers." of America
" Oil paintings by New York artist
Labodav Hutsaliuk are on view this 2790 Lesser Donations from t h e 70, 548 00 70,548.00
weekend at the Lewy Gallery in Chi­ United S t a t e s of America
cago. The exhibit is being presented by
the Pershi Stezhi Plast unit. 21 Memorials from Canada 57, 032 00 45,791.40
e "Hitler's Children," a gripping
movie directed in 1943 by Edward
Dmytryk and starring Bonita Granville, 62 Lesser Donations from Canada 2, 643 00 2,643.00
Tim Holt and Otto Kruger, was shown
on WOR-TV Channel 9 on February 6. 1 Memorial from the Ukrainian Redemptorist 57, 800. 00 57,800.00
о Pianist Thomas Hrynklw will F a t h e r s of t h e United S t a t e s and Canada
perform the Shumann Piano Quintet
during a noontime appearance with the
Concertium Ensemble at Lehmann (Continued on page 16)
College in the Bronx on March 26.
 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY
A report.
(Continued from page 15)
1 Memorial from Special Occasion at
Holy Family Parish, Washington, D.C.
204 Lesser Donations from Special
Occasions at Holy Family
Parish, Washington, D.C.
3 Memorials from Special Occasions in
United States of America
117 Lesser Donations from Special
Occasions in United States of
America
1 Lesser Donation from Scotland
1 Lesser Donation from Australia
1 Lesser Donation from Italy
1 Lesser Donation from Germany
1 Lesser Donation from Venezuela
1 Lesser Donation from England
1620 MEMORIALS AND 3275 LESSER DONATIONS
FOR A GENERAL TOTAL OF
RECAPITULATION
(Sept. 14, 1975 - Dec. 31, 1981)
Total costs re: acquisition of site
Total costs re: construction of Parish Shrine Center
Total costs re: furnishing of Parish Shrine Center
Total costs re: Memorial Fund Raising Campaign
Total costs re: acquisition of loans
payments on capital
payments on interest
GENERAL TOTAL OF COSTS:
GENERAL TOTAL OF PAYMENTS:
OUTSTANDING LOANS:
Providence Association
Ukrainian National Association
Parish Promissory Notes
SUNDAY, MARCH, 14,1982 .No. 11
P
Woman's letter..
(Continuedfromp u t 1)
a good doctor and teacher," she ob-
serves.
1,000.00 1,000.00 In 1977, she married a good man,
who was orphaned early in life. She
realized that indeed she was not the only
person who had lived a hard life, there
were others. Her husband, Vasia, had
4,527.00 4,527.00 lost his father in 1954. The father had
been in the army during the war, he had
left his home a strong, cheerful man and
had returned a cripple. He died in Lviv,
in an army hospital and his family could
1,800.00 1,800.00 not pay to have his body transported to
his home town.
Vasia's mother died soon afterwards
never surviving the tragedy of her
5,097.00 5,097.00 husband's life. Vasia was raised by his
uncle, but he, too, died, and the orphan
was on his own to earn his daily bread.
Having no place to live, he applied for a
communal apartment. He was on the
285.50 285.50 waiting list from 1971, and as of 1980 he
was strfl waiting for an apartment.
54.00 54.00 Vasia believed he was guaranteed an
apartment. He had a job in manage-
ment, he was a Soviet citizen, "he had
50.00 50.00 therightto get an place to live; he had a
guaranteed right... He had therightto
50.00 50.00 have no rights," writes his wife.
Thus, they both started to write
50.00 50.00 letters to all the authorities to get living
quarters. "Letters, statements, deposi-
tions, complaints. The result of this was
10.00 10.00 that they got in touch with us, they
asked for my internal passport. They
wanted to examine it, and re-examine it
52,055,573.50 51,481,069.21 and re-re-examine it Then they took
my husband off the waiting list for an
apartment. No more illusions."
By that time, the Shyliuks had a son.
Ms. Shyliuk wri,tes that she does not
know whether he is a citizen of the
Soviet Union, for he, like his parents,
was never registered. Therefore, she
writes, this means that formally he does
not exist He lives in reality, but because
he is not registered, he is not alive in the
eyes of the Soviet government. In fact,
neither do his parents exist.
The letter goes on to say:
"Our complaints to the government
continue. We are awaiting the birth of
5 308,312.31 our second child. We live in a wood-
shed. The government has served us
1,939,973.45 with papers that don't allow us to live in
the Soviet Union. They have given us
therightnot to live in the Soviet Union.
124,812.64 They have given us the right to a
criminal offense for not having the
papers needed to live in the Soviet
52,252.52 Union; the papers they took from us."
"The irony of fate?' No. We are
22,780.81 Christians, who fight for our ideals. Our
fight is not easy. And we have no more
strength to Tight. AH we have left is the
326,877.39 energy to write to the government and
ask to be released from the Soviet
137,422.25 Union. We have a guaranteedright.The
result? Formally, we have been released
- we no longer are registered in the
52,912,431.37 Soviet Union. In reality, we are still
living on the territory of the Soviet
Union. We are living but where?'A
52,267,308.76 woodshed is not a home. My father did
not give his life for the woodshed. He
died for a better and brighter future for
his children, living all along in a small
house in the 'miserable past/
S388.606.50 "A tragedy? No. These are the straight
facts. The facts about ourrights,our
234,516.11 guaranteed rights. The rights of the
Soviet citizen," the letter ends.
The fate of the Shyliuk family is not
22,000.00 known.
3645,122.61
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