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Pope appoints Marusyn secretary Krasivska arrested in Lviv

of Oriental Churches congregation NEW YORK - Ukrainian dissident
Olena Antoniv Krasivska, who was the
VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul and a Melkite - who held the position subject of a defamatory article in the
II named Bishop Myroslav Marusyn of secretary. August 18 issue of a Communist Party
titular archbishop of Cadeun and Archbishop Marusyn's appointment newspaper, was arrested shortly after
appointed him the secretary of the marks the first time in history that a the story appeared, according to hu­
Sacred Congregation for Oriental Ukrainian holds such a high position in man-rights groups here.
Churches on Saturday, September 25, the Roman Curia. The exact date of the arrest and the
reported America, the Ukrainian Ca­ Upon receiving news of the arch­ nature of the charges against her are not
tholic daily newspaper. bishop's new position, the hierarchs of known.
Prior to his appointment, Archbishop the Ukrainian Catholic Church, includ­ Ms. Krasivska, 45, was accused in a
Marusyn was the apostolic visitator for ing Archbishop-Metropolitan Stephen story published in Vilna Ukraina, a Lviv
Ukrainian Catholics in the Benelux Sulyk, Bishops Basil Losten and Inno­ daily, of stealing money from the
countries and for Ukrainian Catholics cent Lotocky and Auxiliary Bishop Russian Social Fund, which was esta­
without an exarchate. Robert Moskal, who were gathered in blished by author Alexander Solzhe-
Archbishop Marusyn has already Philadelphia for the 70th anniversary nitsyn before his exile to aid families of
taken on the duties of the secretary of celebration of the Providence Associa­ Soviet political prisoners.
the Eastern Congregation, a position tion, sent a congratulatory telegram to The article charged that Ms. Kra-
that was vacated by Archbishop Mario Rome. sivka, who managed the fund in Ukraine,
Brini. The congregation, currently It was also reported that the Very did not distribute the money to dissi­
beaded by Cardinal Wladislaw Rubin, Rev. George Mylanyk has retired as the dents or their families, but spent it on
has existed for 65 years. During this undersecretary of the Sacred Congrega­ lavish living, fancy cafes and restau­
time, .there have.been pnly two other tion for Oriental Churches. Msgr. rants. ,, ' .
hierarchs of the Eastern Rite —a Greek Mario Rizzi now holds this position. . In a three-pronged attack, the article
assailed Ms. Krasivska's character, the
financing of the fund and its intended Olena Antoniv Krasivska
Patriarch's pastoral letter urges benefactors, and what it called the
ulterior motives behind dissent in the receive. As further "proof," the paper
Soviet Union. printed what it said were direct quotes
Christian and national maturity Ms. Krasivska, the article said, from Ms. Zarytska, Mrs. Неї and Mr.
Osadchy, each saying that they never
became a dissident out of "egoism," and
ROME - Oh the occasions of the issued a pastoral letter that calls on all pilfered monies from the fund for her received any money.
Feast of St. MaryTthe Protectress and Ukrainians to strive toward both Chris- own material gain. The fund itself, On hearing of Ms. Krasivska's arrest,
the 40th anniversary of the founding of tian and national maturity. which depends on private funds, is in Natalia Solzhenitsyn, wife of the Nobel
- the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), The patriarch asks all Ukrainians to reality financed by the CIA and other laureate and president of the Russian
Patriarch Josyf Slipyj of the "Po- cast aside their reUgious and political U.S. government agencies, the paper Social Fund, issued a statement refut­
misna" Ukrainian Catholic Church differences and to unite in the spirit of said. ing the charges brought up in the article.
brotherly love and forgiveness. He asks The recipients of the fund, among T h e authorities are trying to drive a
all clergy and faithful brethren to pray them prominent Ukrainian dissidents wedge between Ukrainians and Rus­
together on the Feast of St Mary the Ivan HeL Kateryna Zarytska and My- sians," she said, "because they are
Protectress, a holy day that brings khailo Osadchy, were described by the deathly afraid of any solidarity that may
together all the sons and daughters of paper as '^nti-Sovieti? Ukrainian na­ exist among honest people against their
the Ukrainian nation. tionalists. despicable regime, which is an enemy of
The pastoral letter goes on to say: Referring to what it said were Ms. all people."
"Particularly this year, the feast day Krasivska's private records, the paper Ms. Krasivska is married to Ukrai­
takes on an even greater meaning; this said that they show that Ms. Krasivska nian Helsinki monitor Zinoviy Krasiv-
year it coincides with the 40th anniver­ bilked several dissidents of sky, who is currently in the second year
sary of the founding of the Ukrainian the amounts they were entitled to of a five-year internal exile sentence.
Insurgent Army, the last all-national
effort to free Ukraine from its enemies.
This army sprang up in the hope to free
Ukraine, the homeland, from its ene­ HUD grants ^6.7 million loan
mies; it was a manifestation of love for
one's country."
The pastoral letter also stressed love.
for Ukrainian seniors' housing
"Love for your motherland, based on WARREN, Mich. - The U.S. De­ and various church and community
love for God, blends together into one partment of Housing and Urban De­ organizations of Metropolitan Detroit.
great love; this love should be active, velopment on September 22 awarded Messages of congratulations on the
alert Love without action, like faith S6.7 million to a non-profit Ukrainian receipt of the grant were sent to the
without action is dead. The words from corporation for the building of housing Ukrainian Village Corporation by Sen.
the First Epistle of St. John (3,18) 'My for the elderly. Donald Riegle.Rep. Hertel and Mayor
little children, let us not love in word, The Ukrainian Village "Non-Profit Randlett. .
neither in tongue, but in deed and in Housing Corporation was given ap­ The corporation, which has worked
truth', reflects every kind of love includ­ proval by HUD for a 56,737,000 low- for 15 years on finalizing the project,
ing love toward one's motherland," the interest loan for the project. It was the plans to build 146 units of housing for
patriarch writes. largest such grant ever awarded in the elderly on a seven-acre site in
Michigan. Warren, which has a sizeable Ukrainian
He also notes: "A good patriot is a
person who is, first and foremost just The grant is one of eight awarded this population.
and noble and gives of himself without year to projects in the state of Michigan. The non-profit body was organized
profit. Work on the improvement of It was obtained with the aid of Rep. on the initiative of the Detroit Regional
your heart and soul should bind the love Dennis Hertel, Warren Mayor James Council of the Ukrainian National
v . v Patriarch Josyf (Coatfaatd oa pap If) Randlett, the Rev. Bernard Panczuk Women's League of America.

Dissident profile
Yuriy Badzio:
among the vanguard
JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Since that
day in 1965 when he joined Ukrainian
dissidents Ivan Dziubaand Mykhailyna
Kotsiubynska in disrupting a screening
at Kiev's Ukraine film theater to protest
the destruction of Ukrainian culture
and the mass arrests of Ukrainian
'intellectuals, Yuriy Badzio's name has
been inextricably linked with Ukrainian
nationalism and dissent.
Today, Mr. Badzio is in the third year
of a seven-year labor camp and prison
term, which will be followed by five
years of forced internal exile.
Yuriy Badzio was born on April 24,
1936, in Verkhna Lypytsia in the Muka-
chiv region of Transcarpathian Ukraine.
In 1953 he graduated with honors from
secondary school and enrolled as a
student of Ukrainian philology at
Uzhhorod University. After graduating
in 19S8 he worked as a principal of a
school in the Mukachiv region.
Since 1960 he has been a candidate at
the Academy of Science of the Ukrai­
nian SSR for a doctoral degree in
Ukrainian literature.
Following the protest at the Ukraina
theater, Mr. Badzio was stripped of his
membership in the Communist Party, a
procedure which took nearly 10 months.
He was forced to work loading bread
onto delivery trucks.
In thei970s, Mr. Badzio was working
on his book, "The Right to Live," a
socio-historical analysis of the right of
Shcharansky declares hunger strike U.S. citizen in Soviet jail plans fast;
WASHINGTON - Imprisoned So­ abuse of Mr. Shcharansky's rights wife asks Reagan for assistance
viet dissident Anatoly Shcharansky which has led to this desperate decision.
began an indefinite hunger strike on
September 27 because of repeated
confiscation of his mail, reported
Reuters news service.
Mr. Shcharansky's mother, Ida МІІ-
grom, said she had not been able to send
any letters since last December.
Mrs. Milgrom told reporters that she
feared that her son could die from the
effects of a prolonged fast because he
was still weak from a six-month period
of solitary confinement last year.
Alan Romberg, a spokesman for the
State Department here said: "We wish
to emphasize how thoroughly we de­
plore the Soviet authorities'willful
Report KGB infiltration of peace groups
NEW YORK - Five KGB agents
posing as Soviet diplomats have infil­
trated the American nuclear freeze
movement in order to manipulate it for
Soviet purposes, according to an article
in the October issue of Reader's Digest.
The article said the Soviets — three
U.N. diplomats, the deputy director of
the Institute for the U.S.A. and Canada
in Moscow and a counselor at the
Soviet embassy in Washington — have
participated in disarmament confe­
rences at Georgetown and Harvard
universities and Riverside Church here.
The Soviets are identified as Sergei
Paramanov, Vladimir Shustov and
Sergei Divilkovsky, diplomats-at the
United Nations, Radomir Bogdanov of
the Institute for the U.S.A. and Canada,
and Yuri Kapralov, an embassy counse­
lor.
Mr. Kapralov attended the first
national strategy conference of the
American "Nuclear Freeze Campaign"
THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLV
Ukrainian nationhood. He became
known to the West in 1972 for his
"Unpublished Letter" to the members
of the presidium of the Ukrainian
Writers' Union, the Literaturna Ukraina
magazine and to the delegates of the
sixth conference of the Ukrainian
Writers' Union.
In 1978, the KGB conducted a search
of Mr. Badzio's apartment. Various
items, including material for his thesis
on national and political problems,
were confiscated. In March 1979another
search was conducted in Mr. Badzio's
apartment.
Shortly after, on April 23, 1979, Mr.
Badzio was arrested in Kiev and charged
with "anti-Soviet agitation and propa­
ganda" under Article 62 of the Ukrai­
nian Criminal Code.
In mid-December of that year he was
sentenced to seven years' imprisonment
and five years' exile. In a series of
appeals to Western organizations in
early 1980, Svitliana Kyrychenko, Mr.
Badzio's wife, highlighted what she
called irregularities in her husband's
case, including the changing of testi­
mony and outright fabrications by the
prosecution.
One of several examples of irregulari­
ties cited by Ms. Kyrychenko dealt with
a copy of Mr. Dziuba's controversial
book, "Internationalism or Russifio
tion?" which the prosecution claimed
was seen in Mr. Badzio's apartment 10
We call on Soviet authorities to recon­
sider their treatment of Mr. Shcharan­
sky and restore his ability to be allowed
to communicate with friends and rela­
tives."
Mr. Shcharansky, 34, is currently in
Chistopol prison in the Tatar ASSR.
He was accused of spying for the CIA
and sentenced to 13 years in prison and
labor camp in 1977. Mr. Shcharansky
was a founding member of the recently
disbanded Moscow Helsinki Group,
which monitored Soviet compliance
with the human-rights provisions of the
1975 Helsinki Accords from 1976 until
last month.
at Georgetown in March 1981.
He also appeared at the inauguration
of the disarmament program at the
Riverside Church and has spoken at
disarmament forums at American uni­
versities, including Harvard.
The KGB bureau in New York con­
centrated most of its manpower on the
freeze campaign, and U.S. counterin-
telligence has identified more than 20
Soviet agents who have tried to in­
fluence elements of the peace move­
ment, the article said.
Experts here have long suspected that
the Soviets had managed to infiltrate
the nuclear freeze movement in the
West in the hope of directing its efforts
towards the United States and away
from Soviet nuclear policies.
At the same time, the Kremlin has
cracked down on the only independent
disarmament group in the Soviet Union,
arresting several activists and warning
others to drop their activities.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 . 1 9 8 2
Yuriy Badzio shortly before his arrest in
1979.
years earlier, in 1969, by a KGB opera­
tive. Yet, a second exhaustive search in
1972 did not turn up the book, and there
were no witnesses to corroborate the
KGB operative's statement.
Ms. Kyrychenko also noted that in
1972, the KGB confiscated a copy of
Mr. Badzio's "Unpublished Letter,"but
did not consider it a dangerous anti-
Soviet document until 1979, when it was
used as evidence against Mr. Badzio
during his closed trial.
Mr. Badzio was ultimately charged
with having "harbored for dissemina­
tion" such "anti-Soviet" material as
Mykola Rudenko's "Economic Mono­
logues," and having "prepared" and
BROOKLYN, N. Y. - The wife of a
Lithuanian political prisoner whose
U.S. citizenship has been verified by the
State Department, recently appealed to
President Ronald Reagan to help her
and her family emigrate to the United
States, reported the Lithuanian Infor­
mation Center here.
In a letter to the president, Irena
Skuodis made the appeal on behalf of
her husband, Vytautas Skuodis, who in
1980 was sentenced to seven years in a
strict-regimen camp and five years'
internal exile for "anti-Soviet agitation
and propaganda."
A U.S. citizen, he was born Benedict
Scott in Chicago in 1929, but was
brought to Lithuania by his parents as a
small child. Mr. Skuodis is a geologist
by profession, and he is the author of a
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"disseminated" such "anti-Soviet"
material as the second manuscript of
"The Right to Live."
Earlier this year, samvydav docu­
ments reaching the West from Ukraine
indicated that Mr. Badzio had gone on
three separate hunger-strikes in 1981 to
protest his arrest. In a statement from a
Mordovian labor camp dated February
22, 1981, Mr. Badzio announced a
three-day fast to protest "the dictator­
ship of the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union (CPSU), violations of
human rights in the USSR and the right
to national sovereignty" for non-Rus­
sian nations.
The hunger strike was called to
coincide with the 26th Congress of the
CPSU, Mr. Badzio said.
The second, dated April IS, 1981, was
addressed to French Communist Party
leader Georges Marchais on the eve of
the French federal election. In it, Mr.
Badzio accused the Soviet government
of contravening the Marxist ideology it
purports to espouse, democratic prin­
ciples such as political freedom, public
participation in government, freedom
of the press and the right to form
opposition parties.
The purpose of his statement, Mr.
Badzio wrote, was to alert the French
Communists, the working class and the
entire French nation to Soviet viola­
tions of human and national rights.
The third statement received in the
West was dated April 22,1981. In it Mr.
Badzio assails the Soviet government's
intepreta tion of Article 62 of the Ukrai­
nian Criminal Code, the catch-all "anti-
Soviet agitation and propaganda."
Mr. Badzio argued that since Article
(Continued on page 15)
book, "Spiritual Genocide in Lithuania,"
and several samvydav appeals.
In her letter to Mr. Reagan, Mrs.
Skuodis wrote that persecution of her
family includes constant surveillance by
authorities and threats to her and her
daughters, Giedra and Daiva, who have
faced job discrimination.
She asked the president to allow the
entire family to come to the country of
her husband's birth.
Meanwhile, a recent issue of the
underground Chronicle of the Catholic
Church in Lithuania has reported that
Mr. Skuodis suffered a mild heart
attack in early summer while on a
hunger strike. According to the story,
Mr. Skuodis has pledged to stage a
hunger strike each June 15 to protest the
Soviet occupation of Lithuania.
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CIA: Kremlin's fear of possible unrest NJ. program to honor Wallenberg

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - Raoul baritone Paul Plishka of the Metropo­
in Ukraine led to Polish crackdown Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat
credited with saving more than 100,000
litan Opera in New York.
Also appearing will be the Kodaly
WASHINGTON - Fear that the According to Mr. Anderson, an­ Hungarian Jews from Nazi gas chambers Chorus, a Hungarian musical group.
Solidarity labor movement in Po­ alysts also point out that, like Poland before disappearing in Budapest after Tickets for the program are now
land could spill over into Ukraine (of which western Ukraine was a part the war, will be honored with a special available at the American Hungarian
was "the real reason" for the Krem­ before World War II), Ukraine has program here on October 5. Foundation in New Brunswick, the
lin-instigated crackdown in Poland, large iron and coal industries. The program, jointly sponsored by Scandinavian American Heritage
according to syndicated columnist According to the CIA report: representatives of the Scandinavian, Society in Edison, the Jewish Federa­
Jack Anderson. "Those kinds of industries have Jewish and Hungarian communities of tion of Northern Middlesex County in
Citing secret CIA reports, Mr. created the same sorts of labor Middlesex County, will be held at the Edison, the Jewish Federation of Rari-
Anderson said in his column this past problems as they did in Poland, Voorhces Chapel on the Douglas College tan Valley in Highland Park, and the
week that Moscow was extremely including.long hours, six-day weeks campus beginning at 8 p.m. Greater Monmouth County Jewish
concerned about the possibility that and unsafe working conditions." The special tribute will feature ap­ Federation in Deal Park.
a free labor movement, combined In time, the analysis suggests, "the pearances by authors, public figures General admission tickets are S5 per
with persistent Ukrainian nationa­ mood could develop" among Ukrai­ and diplomats who worked with Mr. person, but a patron ticket at S25
lism, could result in widespread nians to imitate Solidarity. Wallenberg. October 5 was chosen to entitles the holder to special seating and
instability in the large, industrial Even though Ukrainians often are honor the Swede because on that day a program listing. Tickets may be
republic. entrusted with important positions in last year President Ronald Reagan purchased at the door or by contacting
"The Ukrainians possess character­ government and industry, "they are made Mr. Wallenberg an honorary one of the sponsor organizations.
istics which, taken together, give still not trusted to withstand the siren citizen of the United States, a distinc­ Additional information about the
them a unique position among Soviet song of Ukrainian nationalism," tion granted to only two other programs or tickets may be obtained by
minorities,'' states the CIA report. wrote Mr. Anderson referring to the persons, Winston Churchill and Lafa­ calling the American Hungarian
"Some of these features — the cohe- CIA findings. yette. Foundation at (201) 846-5777.
siveness of the Ukrainian popula­ He noted that during World War During the end of World War II, Mr.
tion, the economic significance of the II, many Ukrainian volunteers fought Wallenberg, a member of an aristocratic
area, the historical longevity of
Ukraine as a distinct ethnic commu­
with the Germans against the Red
Army.
Swedish family, used hastily prepared
Swedish passports to save condemned
Museum awarded
nity conscious of an independent
cultural heritage, and Ukraine's
"In 1968, the decisive factor in the
Kremlin's decision to invade Czecho­
Hungarian Jews, at times literally
yanking them off death-camp transport
Ф20.053 grant
susceptibility to Western cultural slovakia was fear that the liberalizing lines and spiriting them away to rented NEW YORK - Director Maria
influences - would seem to increase effects of the 'Prague spring' would safe houses flying the Swedish flag. Shust announced that The Ukrainian
the ability of the Ukrainians to resist spread across the border into U- Museum had received a 520,053 grant
Russification pressures.'' When Soviet forces entered Budapest
kraine," according to Mr. Anderson. from the institute of Museum Services, a
in 1945, they seized and imprisoned Mr.
Wallenberg, fearing that he was a U.S. federal agency that administers to the
spy. He has not been heard from since. nation's museums.
Chrysler chairman launches restoration project There have been persistent claims that
Mr. Wallenberg has been positively
This is the second consecutive year
that a portion of the museum's general
operating funds for this fiscal year was
for Ellis Island, Statue of Liberty identified as a Soviet prisoner by former
inmates of Soviet labor camps despite
Soviet counter-claims that the heroic
provided by a general operating support
grant from the IMS.
by Andrew Keybida Swede died of natural causes in a Soviet The allocation of 520,053 is the
prison in the 1950s. maximum possible for The Ukrainian
NEW YORK - Lee. A. Iacocca, In addition to the honor bestowed by Museum under IMS guidelines. The
chairman of a White House commission Mr. Reagan, both Congress and the maximum allocations are 10 percent of
to restore and preserve the Statue of New Jersey State Legislature have an operating budget, not in excess of
Liberty and Ellis Island, launched a passed resolutions calling for October 5 535,000. Last year, the IMS had award­
national campaign to raise some S230 to be recognized as Raoul Wallenberg ed The Ukrainian Museum with the
million during a September 16 cere­ Day. possible maximum of 515,932.
mony in Manhattan's Battery Park, The New Brunswick program will The Ukrainian Museum was selected
which overlooks America's two great include an appearance by author Per from a field of 1,141 applications
symbols of freedom. Anger, who spent time with Mr. Wal­ submitted by museums in every state,
Sharing the platform with Mr. lenberg during his days in Budapest, the District of Columbia and the Virgin
Iacocca, with the two American land­ and who wrote "With Wallenberg in Islands.
marks as background, were representa­ Budapest." In her letter the director of the
tives of some 50 different ethnic organi­ Also on hand will be Dr. Harvey Institute of Museum Services, Lilla
zations, many of whom are among the Rosenfeld, author of the recently Tower, wrote: "I congratulate you on
16 million immigrants who came to the published "Raoul Wallenberg: Angel of receiving this award. It is an indication
United States through Ellis Island. Rescue." There will also be a special of the quality of your museum and of its
musical program in honor of Mr. service to your community and to the"
Among the invited representatives Wallenberg, featuring noted bass- nation."
were: John O. Flis, supreme president
of the Ukrainian National Association
and Andrew Keybida, member of the
N.J. Ethnic Advisory Council. Plans under way to create
Both the Statue of Liberty and Ellis
Island are managed by th^ National
Park Service, and a commission was
Ukrainian professionals society
created to raise money and coordinate JERSEY CITY, N.J. - A group of the terms "Ukrainian American," "pro­
private activities with the Park Service Lee A. Iacocca Ukrainians from the New Jersey/New fessionals" and "businesspersons." The
in the repair and restoration project. York area recently agreed to work association is designed to encompass
Last May 18, President Reagan ap­ possessions. But they had hope and they toward establishing an organization of Ukrainian professionals and business-
pointed Mr. Iacocca, chairman of had enormous perseverance! They Ukrainian professionals and business- persons, as well as their Ukrainian or
Chrysler Corporation, to head the wanted to work and they took pride in persons. non-Ukrainian spouses. Membership is
Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centen­ that work. They built new neighbor­ The organization, which is envision­ obtainable through sponsorship by two
nial Commission. hoods, churches and schools. They ed as a community rather than a pro­ existing members.
nurtured in their children a sense of fessional association, has set as its major The present members include scien­
Mr. Iacocca stated that as a son of pride arid dignity and they turned to
Italian immigrants who passed through providing help to others less fortunate task the formation of a new network of tists, teachers, writers, journalists,
Ellis Island, the restoration will serve as than they." Ukrainian Americans who together dentists, physicians, lawyers, business-
a reaffirmation of that heritage. He also would pursue social, community and persons and others.
said that, in spite of some voices that "I hope Americans will come to public-affairs goals. Discussions about the formation of
would have everyone to believe other­ understand that those monuments not Among these goals are: expansion of such an association have been under
wise, we Americans have a heritage of only symbolize a heritage of freedom acquaintances, discussion of commu­ way since January, and in June a group
pride in workmanship, of the dignity of but they symbolize each of the 16 nity problems and needs, and promo­ of interested persons elected a steering
labor and of the value of hard work. million people who poured into this tion of the interests of the Ukrainian committee to coordinate the group's
country between 1892 and 1954. They American community at large. activity during its organizational stages.
Mr. Iacocca said: "Many of us have symbolize the courage and faith those Groups of Ukrainians in Philadel­ Formal elections of officers will be
parents or grandparents who were people passed on to their children. They phia and Washington have also express­ held in early 1983.
among the millions of people who came symbolize the energy and vitality that ed interest in such an organization. The organization has already held a
through Ellis Island on their way to a those immigrants gave to the American A name has not yet been selected for number of meetings, and several guest
new life in a new land. If they were like dream." the fledgling association, but it has been speakers have addressed the members.
my parents, they came to this country "If that isn4 worth preserving, 1 don't decided by the core group of some 30 Among them were: Ihor Bardyn, who
with very little in the way to money or know what is," he said. members that the name would include (Continued on pa jt 13)
 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY
Conquest, Warn discuss Harvard monograph on 1933 famine
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Few if any
of the projects undertaken at the
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
have so captivated the Ukrainian
American public as the forthcoming
publication on the famine of 1933.
The project was initiated in 1980 by
the Ukrainian Studies Fund. As en-
visioned by the USF, a monograph
would be published in 1983 in obser-
vance of the 50th anniversary of the
famine which claimed the lives of
several million Ukrainians. The publi-
cation would be the first major scholarly
assessment of the famine and would
serve as a groundbreaking work for
further study of the era. It is being
prepared with the financial support of
the Ukrainian National Association.
The Harvard Ukrainian Research
Institute became involved in the pro-
ject as part of its commitment to
maintain an exacting standard of ex-
cellence in research and scholarly works
in Ukrainian studies. Prof. Adam
Ulam, a Harvard specialist on the Stalin
period, was appointed by the HURI to
find an author for the project. In April
of 1981, Prof. Ulam recommended the
eminent author and scholar Robert
Conquest as the person best suited to
the task. Prof. Conquest has written
more than a dozen monographs on the
Soviet Union, among them the highly
acclaimed "The Great Terror."
In May of 1981, Prof. Conquest
agreed to join the project. At that time,
the contracting parties agreed that Prof.
Conquest would work on the publica-
tion at the Hoover Institute in Cali-
fornia, where he serves as curator, while
his junior collaborator, Dr. James
Mace, would conduct research on the
project at Harvard.
Since the spring of 1981, the Ukrai-
nian community has been kept up to
date on the research being done on the
publication through regular press re-
leases and a cross-country series of
speaking engagements by Dr. Mace. In
his talks, Dr. Mace has stressed that the
famine can be understood only in the
context of the Soviet Ukrainian ex-
perience from the revolution to 1933. As
for the publication itself, Prof. Con-
quest outlined its general format at a
public seminar he presented at Harvard
this spring.
More recently, in answer to a number
of queries contained in a letter from
Prof. Ulam, Prof. Conquest gave a
general outline of the monograph that
he is preparing. What follows are
excerpts from their correspondence
provided by the HURI."
CONQUEST: Before dealing with
your more general points, let me say
that the core and essence of the book is
the terror-famine which was largely
(and designedly) confined to Ukraine —
and its outlier, the Kuban.
The central scene of the book, which
all the rest leads up to or develops from,
is a broad, cumulative and detailed
description of the Ukrainian country-
side in that frightful summer when it
was all one .vast Belsen.
Naturally, the complete context of
collectivization and dekulakization as a
policy for the USSR as a whole will be
thorougly covered, and so will the
political motivations of Marxism-
Leninism in the agrarian field, and the
specific developments of political deci-
sions and maneuvers in Moscow.
ULAM: I was very much impressed,
as you undoubtedly know, with both
the substance and method of your
"Great Terror. "Now, do youfeel that in
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 , 1 9 8 2 No. 40
contrived element in thefamine, as well
as in collectivization policies in general,
what, precisely, could have been the
reasons that impelled Stalin's regime to
face with equanimity the prospect of
millions starving?
CONQUEST: The main reason for
the operation was dogma: the indepen-
dent peasantry was a bugbear on Mar-
xist grounds, and the market economy
it generated was against the principle of
the fundamental evil of "commodity"
relations. At the same time the party
was committed to carry out this "revo-
lution from above" by the method of
class war against the "kulak"element —
which in Bolshevik terms meant ex-
treme measures. Stalin also, and espe-
cially in Ukraine, had a commitment
against "bourgeois nationalism." And
of course he never had any objection to
mass slaughter as an instrument of
policy.
Collectivization, dekulakization and
Dr. Robert G. Conquest B. Ulam
this case your approach will be more or you can remember the exact wording the man-made famine are separate
less the same, or is the scope andsubject and source of a remark of Lenin's that matters. It would have been possible to
of the work of quite a different nature? "the national problem is essentially a collectivize without dekulakizing; to
collectivize and dekulakize without the
CONQUEST: Yes, I do envisage the peasant problem"?)
famine (this last was indeed the mode
book as being of the same general type But the economic point raises the outside Ukraine, Kuban, Lower Volga
as The Great Terror." That is, "The whole question of Communist econo-
and Kazakhstan). The decision to inflict
Great Terror" told the story of the mic motivation and strategy at the time.
all three was a political one. The general
second main foundation of the Stalinist re- Above all, we are often told of the
aim was the destruction of market
gime, the present book will tell the story Preobrazhenski idea of financing in-
relations and of the last bourgeois or
of thefirst.There are obvious differences dustrialization from the product of the
petty bourgeois classes; the particular
- for example in that the investigations peasants. This can be done—as in Meiji
aim in Ukraine was all those, but also
of obscure political identities and Japan — but only by seeing that suitable
the devastation of a hostile area.
elements of the political struggle in consumer goods are pari passu made
1936-8 are not really paralleled in 1929- available to the peasant. Mere excess ULAM: To what extent does the
33; above all the emphasis in the earlier requisition (as had been seen in 1921) whole picture fit into the overallframe-
period is far more strongly on the results in one-shot, and even then not work of Stalin's policies, such as the
population as Stalin's target, as against very great availability, of the peasant utter destruction of opposition, na-
the Yezhov purge's extension also to the product, plus a reduction in sowing tionality policy, and simply the dis-
ruling party, police and army elite. covery of a new method of governing
area, and so forth.
On the other hand, in both cases there Moreover the whole operation was through supraterror?
had never been a history written: other far less "rational" than such notions CONQUEST: Bolshevik rule was
books of great interest, documentation, presuppose. Indeed, it was part of the essentially a machinery by which the
economic analysis, and so forth exist, conditions of crash collectivization that subjective decision of a group of doctri-
but not a history properly speaking. As it was not given any real planning naires could be imposed on society and
you know, I see the writing of history, as preparation, for it had to be sprung as a the economy. Stalin had indeed dis-
against historiography, as work which, surprise and hustled through the Central covered (or made use of Lenin's dis-
while never relaxing the rigors of Committee by mere instant political covery) that the totalitarian party can
accuracy and research, is above all a pressure. rule against all the odds, and that terror
balanced, full and comprehensive nar- ULAM: m connection with the above, is an excellent way of atomizing op-
rative for the educated, non-specialist if there was a considerable political and position or resistance.
reader. For lack of such, I think the
terror-famine has not really established
itself in the public mind — as it should
both on moral and intellectual grounds
of a general sort, and because of the very
New Jersey governor creates
great and continuing intrinsic signifi-
cance of the subject. Office of Ethnic Affairs
ULAM: How prominently will the JERSEY CITY, N.J. - New Jersey Executive Order No. 11, which was
economic component of the question Secretary of State Jane Burgio officially signed by Gov. Kean on July 23, and
figure in your work? In other words, I announced the formation of an Office which nullified Executive Order No. 65
don t know whether you feel the way I of Ethnic Affairs in the state by Gov. that was signed by Gov. Brendan Byrne
do, but one of the most fascinating Tom Kean. She made the announce- and called for a 16-member council.
aspects of the subject when I was doing ment while representing the governor at
work on a related theme was the ques- the Liberty Park Festival held here at After her remarks, the secretary of
tion of how contrived the famine was, Liberty State Park on September 11-12. state introduced the new director of the
andI or how much it was due to mostly ethnic affairs office, Robert Zochow-
The festival capped off Ethnic Heri-
economic and natural causes. This tage Week in New Jersey (September 6- ski, a Polish American lawyer from
would seem to me to be one of the most 12), which was proclaimed by the Princeton.
important aspects of the whole thing, governor on September 1. She also introduced members of the
and I wonder whether you share my "By executive order last month Gov. ethnic advisory council, among them
opinion. Kean created an official state agency to Ukrainian community activists Andrew
CONQUEST: The economic side will address the concerns of all the ethnic Keybida of Maplewood and Zenon
of course be covered - a n d fortunately, communities in New Jersey," she said. Onufryk of Flanders. Mr. Keybida is a
the past decade has seen sensible, "It is called the Office of Ethnic Af- member at large, and Mr. Onufryk is
though expert, economic treatment by fairs." the Ukrainian community representa-
Karcz, Lewin and others. And this tive.
She said that the office is part of the
sphere can and must be clearly and Department of State, adding that only Ms. Burgio also read a short letter
comprehensively put, without too much one other state has such an office. from President Ronald Reagan to Gov.
stodginess. But as to the causes of the In addition to establishing the new Kean praising the festival as "an out-
famine, it can be shown that it was due office, Ms. Burgio noted that Gov. standing celebration of the rich diver-
to conscious political decision. Indeed, Kean has expanded the New Jersey sity that is the source of America's
the fact of its limitation largely to Ethnic Advisory Council to 19 citizen strength."
Ukraine was owing to special grain members and six department heads This year, marked the fourth year of
quotas for that republic, whose excessive from state government. The chairman the Liberty Park Festival, which fea-
nature was clearly and often brought to of the advisory council is George tured a wide variety of ethnic foods,
Moscow's attention; and it was carried Pappas, a Greek-American engineer, crafts and cultural exhibits of 40
out pan passu (side-by-sidej with the she said. different nationalities. It was the first
purge of Ukrainian culture. (I wonder if The new council was created by (CoBtfaacd OB pap 13)
No. 40
Commentary: the "demise" of the Moscow Helsinki Group
by Petro Grigorenko
Although news of the Moscow Hel-
sinki Monitoring Group discontinuing
its human-rights monitoring activities
was shocking, it was, however, no great
surprise to me. What is surprising is that
the event was erroneously reported
as a liquidation of the group.
For more than six years the Moscow
group - as well as all other Helsinki
monitoring groups in the Soviet Union
— carried on its monitoring work
despite the Soviet government's (KGIft)
ceaseless persecution, various threats,
loss of livelihood, police surveillance,
illegal searches, arrests with sentences
based on fabricated allegations, internal
exile and expatriation.
The group's tenacity of purpose in
human-rights work was a result of its
judicious organizational principles, its
flexible tactics, the members' moral
steadfastness and courage, their noble
aspirations, the support of the world
community, the good will of the citizens
(as evidenced by the continuous flow of
information on human-rights viola-
tions), and by the arrival of replace-
ments for those torn from human-rights
ranks by government terrorization. It is
evident that the group's ability to carry
on its work was dependent upon an
increasing number of new members.
Unfortunately, the replacements could
not overcome the losses resulting from the
government's unrestrained harassment.
As a result, the number of active
members in the Moscow Group steadily
decreased until, finally, there were only
three left: Yelena Bonner, a World War
II invalid and wife of academician
Andrei Sakharov; 70-year-old ailing
Naum Meiman, a physicist and mathe-
matician; seriously-ill 75-year-old Sofia
Kalistratova, prominent Moscow at-
torney. The three were warned by the
Moscow prosecutor that criminal action
against them had been initiated under
the criminal code article covering "anti-
Soviet agitation and propaganda." A
stifling, tight police surveillance of the
three was started, making it impossible
for the group to legally continue its
work. These are the hard facts.
Unfortunately, the Western press,
using eye-catching headlines by er-
roneously citing the group's Document
195, reported that the Moscow Helsinki
Group announced "its own" dissolu-
tion and made no mention of any
voluntary dissolution. The news com-
mentaries, rather than censuring the
Soviet Union's authorities for degrad-
ing and violating the Helsinki Accords,
chose to emphasize a funeral setting for
one such organization that struggled for
security, humanrightsand a just peace.
In addition, the reports erroneously
labelled other Helsinki groups as "satel-
lites" of the Moscow group and ignored
their independent status.
A further example of the commenta-
tors' posture was the incident revolving
about the exile of my friend and asso-
ciate, Academician Sakharov, to Gorky.
Instead of expressing outrage over the
authorities' brutal arbitrariness, the
reports reflected the dour mood: "On
the day that A.D. Sakharov was being
deported to Gorky, the fate of the human-
rights movement was being decided."
To help clarify and correct the
reports, I am briefly providing the
following organizational facts.
The founders of the Moscow Helsinki
In view of the crucial importance of
Group fully realized that a conventional
eastern Galicia to the development of
organization having a charter, by-laws,
the national movement, the lack of a
formal membership, division of autho-
rity, meetings and conferences, wouldconcise, easily readable but scholarly,
English-language history of Galicia
Petro Grigorenko is a member ofboth under Austrian rule has long been a
the Moscow and Ukrainian Helsinki major lacuna of Ukrainian studies in the
groups. West. Now that lacuna has partially
THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY
be forbidden under the present Soviet
conditions. To avoid that situation and
to create a viable organization, the
group was organized without a formal
membership or an organizational sy-
stem. The membership was united on a
basis of mutual trust, individual respon-
sibility, and amicable unanimity with
equal rights for all. Individuals desiring
to become members could join the
group, provided there were no objec-
tions from the active members. For a
member wishing to drop out all that was
necessary was a statement of resigna-
tion without any explanations required;
no one could be expelled from the
group. No member could make deci-
sions for another, and no one could
obligate others to any action contrary to
his will. Each member could make
recommendations for a document; it
would be considered the group's official
paper only upon its being signed by an
acceptable number of members. It was
every member's right to participate in
the group's activities by whatever means
available, despite the scattering of the
members as a result of harsh Soviet
persecutions.
In addition to the three previously-
mentioned members of the group there
are 12 other members, including four
members of the committee for investi-
gating the government abuses of psy-
chiatry for political purposes, namely:
Yuri Orlov, Anatoly Shcharansky,
Vladimir Slepak, Malva Landa, Feliks
Serebrov, Tatiana Osipova, Victor
Nekipelov, Ivan Kovalev, Vyacheslav
Bakhmin, Aleksandr Podrabinek, Irina
Gryvnina, and Anatoly Koryagin. They
are in prison, labor camps, or in exile.
Not only did everyone find a way to
reassert his membership but, astonish-
ing as it sounds, made an affirmation to
be on a mission to investigate com-
pliance with human rights in prisons.
Helsinki groups have even been or-
ganized in prison and labor camps.
Another six of the group members,
consisting of two expatriates (Grigo-
Book review
Essays on Austrian Galicia: outstanding collection
by Dr. James E. Mace
The modern Ukrainian movement
which asserted itself so strongly on the
stage of history after World War I was
the product of a long symbiotic relation-
ship between the Ukrainian communi-
ties living under Austrian and Russian
rule. After the Ems Ukase of 1876 made
Ukrainian national work virtually
impossible in the Russian Empire, a
number of outstanding Ukrainian acti-
vists from eastern Ukraine moved to the
freer atmosphere of Galicia or had then-
works published there. Galician Ukrai-
nians, for their part, fully came to
realize that they were of the same nation
as their kinsmen to the east and deeply
influenced the development of national
consciousness In eastern Ukraine. With
the revolution, two sister governments,
the Ukrainian National Republic and
the Western Ukrainian National Re-
public, were established, proclaimed
their unity, and Galicians fought for the
freedom of their eastern brethren under
the slogan "Through Kiev to Lviv."
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3.1982
renko and Ginzburg) and four emi-
grants (Ludmilla Alekseeva, Bakhmin,
Borikenov and Yuri Yarym-Agayev),
live in the free world. They participate
in many ways by defending the interna-
tional Helsinki movement with political
and human-rights enthusiasts in scienti-
fic circles, cultural groups, trade unions
and other fruitful international liaisons.
It is evident that the group has not
dissolved itself, but has changed its
center of activity and the direction of its
work, and is continuing its struggle for
the release of the imprisoned members
of this and other groups, as well as of
Soviet political prisoners by demand-
ing either compliance with the Helsinki
Accords or asking for its annulment. In
order to accomplish this the available
members of the Moscow Group who are
now living abroad must unite and
replenish their ranks with effective
Moscow human-rights activists. They
must proclaim a Moscow Helsinki
Group in exile and begin its active work.
As to other Helsinki groups, be they
Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Armenian or
Georgian, let it be known that the
absence of certain overt human-rights
activities does not necessarily spell their
demise. Even though members of the
groups have been transferred indivi-
dually from Mordovian and Perm
gulags to Kiev and Vilno to undergo
"rehabilitation work," not one person
has been found to announce the self-
dissolution of his group. These other
Helsinki groups, demeaned by some
members of the press as "satellites," are
silent for they have been stifled no less
vehemently than the Moscow Group.
The number of silent voices in the
Ukrainian Group is greater than the
number in the Moscow Group. At this
time, 27 members are in prisons, labor
camps and in exile: seven of these who
are completing their prison sentences
have received additional sentences,
three live at home under police sur-
veillance, seven were expatriated (of
this latter group, six were banished after
filled with the publication of the ex-
cellent collection of essays edited by
Andrei S. Markovits and Frank E.
Sysyn, "Nationbuilding and the Poli-
tics of Nationalism: Essays on Austrian
Galicia." Each of the 11 essays compiled
by Profs. Markovits and Sysyn is
written by a leading scholar in the field.
As a whole, the book provides the
reader with a useful survey of the pro-
vince's history and elucidates a number
on its most interesting sidelights.
Each essay represents the current
state of the art in historical scholarship.
The introductory article by Prof. Mar-
kovits is, all in all, a highly informative
introduction to the general framework
of the Habsburg Empire and Galicia's
place within it, supplemented by an
excellent bibliography on the Austrian
Empire and the problems of nation-
building, eminently suitable for the
reader who might find that the book
merely whets his or her appetite to know
more.
Prof. Ivan L. Rudnytsky's contribu-
tion, "The Ukrainians in Galicia Under
Austrian Rule," is the best concise
account of the subject ever written by a
Western scholar, and the same can be
said for Prof. Piotr Wandycz's essay on
the Poles in the Habsburg Empire.
These two essays are complemented
by Ezra Mendelsohn's study of Jewish
assimilation in Lviv, the career of
5
completing their prison sentences).
When considering that the original
group consisted of 11 members, the
losses are great. As a result of these
losses, the Ukrainian Group stopped
announcing the names of new members
that represent the current basic strength
of the group. For this group to function
openly it must have the opportunity to
legally monitor compliance with the
Helsinki Accords. The governments
that signed the accords can help attain
that opportunity by confronting the
USSR with demands of honest com-
pliance with all of the articles of the
Helsinki Accords and providing its
citizenry with the necessary authority to
oversee the fulfillment of the act. They
can ask the Soviets to release all mem-
bers of the Helsinki Groups, political
prisoners and prisoners of conscience
from incarceration, exile and expatria-
tion.
If the USSR refuses to accept the
above, the Helsinki Accords should
then be declared null and void. This
should be followed with a demand for
the convening of a peace conference to
resolve the problem of post-World War
II boundaries and the liquidation of the
Stalin-Hitler pre-war pact on the divi-
sion of spheres of influence.
Some final words regarding the other
Helsinki groups: they were never
satellites of the Moscow Helsinki Moni-
toring Group, although in the spirit of
cooperation, the Moscow Group was
notified post factum of their creation.
Their methods and goals were different
from those of the Moscow Group. They
cooperated openly with the Moscow
Group, receiving help and advice only
when requested. Referring to the Mos-
cow Group's cessation of human-rights
activities, members of the Ukrainian
Group wrote: "For over five years the
Moscow and the Ukrainian monitoring
groups operated in an atmosphere of
mutual trust and cooperation." Both
groups were allied in a mutual endeavor
to establish human rights for all.
Wilhelm Feldman, and Leila Everett's
survey, "The Rise of Jewish National
Politics in Galicia, 1905-1907." Prof.
Mendelsohn's article provides ample
information on the history of Galician
Jewry in the 19th century. Ms. Everett's
15)
Book notes
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The 338-page book is written in easy-
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especially to all those who know little or
no Ukrainian. The book contains an
English word index and a Ukrainian-
English dictionary, as well as 29 lessons
and plenty of oral and written exercises
with answers.
The book costs S10 and is available
by writing Ms. Wichorek at 13814
Vassar Drive, Detroit, Mich. 13814. There
is a SI.50 postage and handling charge
for each copy. In Canadian currency
the cost (including postage and handling)
is S14.
 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3,1932 No. 40

Focus on Ukrainian women political prisoners

Ukrainian Weerh
Smear tactics Oksana Popovych:
When The Weekly first broke the story that Ukrainian dissident Olena
Antoniv Krasivska was the victim of a vicious smear in the August 18 issue of
a Lviv newspaper (see The Weekly, September 5), we expressed fear that the
23 years without freedom
scope and vitriol of the obloquy meant that her arrest was imminent. Sad to by Nina Strokata
say, we were right. News of her arrest has recently reached the West. Ms.
Krasivska was hauled in shortly after her work, her reputation and her Oksana Popovych was born in 1926.
activities were publicly sullied in a spiteful and malicious article in Vilna She grew up at a time when the Ukrai­
Ukraine, which is published by the Communist Party of Ukraine. nian nation was in a desperate war with
The technique of prefacing the arrest of a dissident with a well-placed smear German Fascist and Soviet Communist
is not new. It is a form of harassment and intimidation. Ukrainian political invaders. During the war — in 1944 —
prisoners Oles Berdnyk and Mykola Matusevych were both vilified in the Oksana was sentenced to 10 years in a
press before their arrests. Poet and imprisoned Helsinki monitor Vasyl Stus Soviet labor camp for her participation
was branded a fascist by the local press for a year before he was finally in the two-front war for Ukrainian
arrested. independence.
In the Vilna Ukraina article on Ms. Krasivska, the author accused her of After her release in 1954, she worked
misappropriating money from the Russian Social Fund - set up by at various manual-labor jobs since her
Alexander Solzhenitsyn before his expulsion from the USSR to help the previous incarceration prohibited fur­
families of political prisoners - and using it for her own enjoyment. The ther education or any other type of
article reached new heights of creative animadversions, labeling Ms. work.
Krasivska "the Galician banking housewife" who sought to create "a private In 1974, Oksana was arrested again,
banking-credit operation" not unlike "the American Manhattan Chase this time for disseminating samvydav
Bank" (sic). materials. Shortly before her arrest, she
References to Ms. Krasivska's "egoism," selfishness and cunning are underwent orthopedic surgery on her
passim; she is called "trivial, capricious, inconstant... and a liar." hip. Her operation called for a lengthy
But there is more here than mere character assassination. Ms. Krasivska is and special convalescence. Yet, respond­
also linked with Ukrainian "bourgeoise nationalism" and other Ukrainian ing to KGB orders, her doctors issued a
dissidents such as Kateryna Zarytska, Mykhailo Osadchy and Ivan Неї, report permitting interrogation.
whose father, the article says, "was an active helper and abettor of Banderite As a result, a warrant was issued for Oksana Popovych
headhunted." Her portrait as a self-glorifying thief is meant to discredit the her arrest, and she was taken into
human-rights movement, Ukrainian nationalists both past and present, and custody on a stretcher. As a protest, ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
the Russian Social Fund and its supporters in the West. Oksana went on a 45-day hunger strike,
which ended after she was force-fed by Oksana's birthday: February 2, 1926.
One often wonders why the Soviets should bother with the elaborate Sources:
rigmarole of such vivid excoriations inthe press. The lurid language, sardonic prison authorities.
Oksana Popovych was sentenced to a в "The Persecution of the Ukrainian
tone and limitless hyperbole of these denunciations evoke a quality of
term of eight years in a strict-regimen Helsinki Group." Toronto: Human
ridiculous parody rather than truth, something, we assume, the average
labor camp and five years' exile. Rights Commission of the World Con­
Soviet reader would quickly discern and dismiss as such.
In 1975, the International Women's gress of Free Ukrainians, 1980, pp. 40-
Maybe or maybe not. But the real reason for the smears has less to do with 41.
denouncing nationalism or gaining propaganda ground than it does with Year, she entered a Mordovian labor
intimidation, with the government showing again that, in the Soviet Union, camp on crutches. Today, she must " "The Persecution of the Ukrainian
the press is merely another powerful tool of official repression. The personal walk with the aid of two canes. Helsinki Group. Fifth Anniversary
attacks, the fabrications, the vilification, the brazen lies all send a clear and During her imprisonment, she con­ update. November 9, 1981." Toronto:
no-nonsense message to Soviet citizens: in this system, there truly is no ducted constant protests against the Human Rights Commission of the
place to hide. There is also no recourse. One doesn't imagine that a dissident unjust and cruel treatment of inmates World Congress of Free Ukrainians,
could bring a libel or slander suit against a Soviet government press organ. by the prison authorities, and she 1981, p. 7, p. 22.
refused to do forced labor at the camp. ' The Human Rights Movement in
We in the West enjoy the benefits of a free press, and are at the same time Ukraine: Documents of the Ukrainian
protected from it by a host of legal constraints and privacy laws. Only those who have experienced
imprisonment in Soviet labor camps Helsinki Group 1976-1980. Baltimore-
Clearly, then, our outrage is heightened when we realize that Ms.
Krasivska and others like her are being victimized by a press monopoly that is can imagine the additional danger Washington-Toronto: Smoloskyp Pub­
confronting this invalid woman after lishers, 1980, p. 48, p. 259.
in the hands of a brutal and malevolent government, and that they have no
forum to defend themselves, no way to publicly respond to the government's she refused forced labor. о Herald of Persecution in Ukraine.
wild accusations. We can only support Ms. Krasivska, proclaim her In 1979, while in prison, Oksana New York: External Representation of
innocence and continue to denounce the craven system which sees fit to sic its joined the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, pp. 2-19
yellow journalists on men and women seeking nothing more than the dignity At the time of this writing, her prison (February 1981).
of basic human rights. term is nearing completion. Still ahead, о Hearing and markup before the
however, are five years of internal exile. Committee on Foreign Affairs and its
According to Soviet law, someone with Subcommittee on Human Rights and
Letter to the editor Oksana's serious health problems may International Organizations, House of
be released from the exile term. Never­ Representatives. 97th Congress, First
Яв; Kobza tour editorial theless, past inconsistencies in the Session on H.Con. Res. Ill; H. Res.
application of criminal law in the USSR 152; H. Res. 193. July 28; July 30; and
September 17, 1981. Washington: U.S.
Dear Editor: their latest album (circa 1979) sells only do not bode well for her release from the Government Printing Office, 1981, p.
In regard to your editorial (Septem­ moderately in Soviet Russia, while fresh exile sentence. 12.
ber 26) portraying the current Kobza copies of the materpiece are virtually The defense of Oksana Popovych
tour of Canada as a mere "facade" and a unobtainable in Soviet Ukraine. could promote her release from the exile Address:
Oksana Zenonivna Popovych
betrayal of reality, I am taking this Please, we need not the fresh me­ phase of her punishment. It is impor­ 431200 Barashevo
opportunity to accuse The Ukrainian mories of Ivasiuk's hideous death - tant to understand that conditions in
uch. Zhkh 385/3-4
Weekly of performing a disservice to its Time magazine goes so far as to call it a exile are in fact not better than in the Tengushevskiy r-n
readers through misrepresentation of "celebrated" case. The Kobza ensemble labor camps, and in many cases are Mordovskaya ASSR
the facts. has its opinions on this of which we shall much worse. USSR
Firstly, the Kobza ensemble was never know. Spare them - and us - Oksana Popovych's labor-camp term
approached and invited to perform by more grief. will end next month. Her exile term is
Оксана Зенонівна Попович,
the National Concert Agency, an or­ Andrew Schepel scheduled to expire in October'1987. 431200 Барашево,
ganization comprised of Ukrainian Somerset, N.J.
Canadians. Does The Weekly not Nina Strokata is a former Soviet уч. ЖХ 385/3-4,
support the intentions of the honorable P.S.: You may include, as a footnote, political prisoner and is one of the Теньгушевский р-н,
members of this association in soliciting that I was in Ukraine (visiting) the very founding members of the Kiev-based Мордовская АССР,
Kobza, despite their full awareness of day that Ivasiuk was buried — only a Ukrainian Helsinki group. СССР.
the present situation in Soviet Ukraine? few hours away. Due to the strict
Perhaps, our approach to the matter of censorship in the vicinity of Lviv, I was
Soviet tour groups in the United States unaware of the event until I read The
needs a careful re-evaluation. Ukrainian Weekly upon my return to the Philadelphia center to offer Ukrainian
Secondly, Kobza does not, as other­ United States.
wise suggested by The Weekly, perpe­ PHILADELPHIA - The Philadel­ Wednesday starting October 6.
tuate the Potemkin approach to Ukrai­ Editor's note: The Weekly editorial phia center of the St. Clement Ukrai­ Registration for the courses will take
nian music and art. Do these young men takes issue neither with the Kobza nian Catholic University in Rome, place on that day beginning at 7 p.m.
not burn with resentment and hostility ensemble itself, nor with the Canadian located at 7911 Whitewood Road in There is no tuition, only a registration
toward the murderers of our beloved agency that arranged the group's tour, Elkins Park, will offer once again free fee of S35. Refreshments will be served
Ivasiuk? Do they not feel the molesting but with the Soviet system that allows a instruction in the Ukrainian language. during class break.
breath of their accompanying nannies group like Kobza to perform abroad This year, there will be two courses — For additional information call Dr.
wherever they perform? The Weekly while "kobzari" and composers like Ukrainian for Beginners and Advanced L. Rudnytzky during business hours at
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No. 40
The Madrid Review Conference: an updated report
Putin
The government has been carrying
out a process described officially as
"verification," wherein individuals are
required to appear before a board of
review which passes on their political
reliability. Those found to be unreliable
— often on the basis of nothing more
than Solidarity membership — are
dismissed from their jobs. No figures
are available on the exact number of
those who have lost their jobs or
undergone the verification process, but
the evidence suggests that many thou-
sands have been involved. Indeed, the
army newspaper Zolnierz Wolnosci
urged on Janaury IS that the verifica-
tion of staff process be "carried out at all removed as head of the Catholic parlia-
levels important for our national exis-
tence... (including) the party, adminis-
trative apparat, economy, education,
press, radio and television as well as
many other fields." The article also
stressed the need to root out "disguised
ideological and political opponents."
The process of verification has not
only been aimed at those occupying
sensitive positions in the government or
the media but also at ordinary workers
who have been ordered to sign denun-
ciations of Solidarity. Those who refuse
have been either demoted or fired.
Church officials, including the primate,
Archbishop Glemp, have often and
bitterly denounced this practice, which
makes a mockery of the goverment's
professed policy of tolerance and conci-
liation towards Solidarity and its mem-
bers, as immoral and unethical.
Indeed, the Church has long sought
to maintain a dialogue between Soli-
darity and the authorities in the interests mation." Another priest was arrested in
of internal peace and national renewal.
After December 13, 1981, the Church
spoke out often and forcefully on the
need to end martiallaw and returned to
a dialogue among the parties in Poland.
The Polish episcopate, in several
pastoral letters and statements, called
for a swift end to martial law, release of
internees, amnesty for those charged
with violating martial law and for those
still in hiding, and an end to dismissals
from work for political views or union
membership. The bishops also urged a
resumption of talks between Solidarity
and the authorities to extricate the
country from what they termed a
deepening catastrophe. Archbishop
Glemp also gave a number of well-
publicized sermons calling for a dis-
mantling of martial law and a return to
the process of dialogue and national
renewal. On March 4, he publicly called
for the release of Lech Walesa and other
detainees at a religious ceremony near
the giant Ursus tractor complex. In a
brief address supplementing his Easter
message, the primate posed a clear
challenge to the martial law regime. He
called for the removal of barriers
separating the authorities and society,
and announced the release for public
discussion of a document titled "Re-
garding Social Conciliation" which he
had sent to the government. This
document called for a new discussion
between the government, the Church,
and a broadly based committee repre-
senting all elements in Polish society,
including Solidarity. The dialogue
would seek to negotiate an end to
martial law, explore ways to reactivate
trade unions and to re-establish civil
rights, and address economic and social
reforms. The document also took Soli-
darity to task for pre-martial law
excesses and urged recognition by
Polish society of "economic and geo-
political ' realities."
THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3,1982
Religious freedom, which traditionally the Christmas holiday issue of Wiado- A particularly bloody and brutal
has been greater in Poland than in other mosci Szczecinskie which claimed that incident took place on December 16,
areas of Eastern Europe, also was Jews have been a source of trouble in 1981, when at least nine miners were
diminished somewhat by martial law. Poland ever since 1947. The article also killed and 39 others wounded in a
The weekly religious broadcasts on said that Jews operating through KOR. pitched battle with security forces
state radio were suspended on Decem- were trying to seize power in the coun- during the suppression of a strike at the
ber 13, 1981, and returned on a more try. The Jewish ancestry of KOR leaders Wujek coal mine in Katowice. The
limited twice-monthly schedule in late Adam Michnik and Karol Modzelewski special riot police (ZOMO) employed
January. PAX, the Catholic lay or- was mentioned in a denigrating manner. tanks and other armored vehicles to
ganization which had evolved since The Grunwald Patriotic Union, a crush miners who formerly were the
1980 from a strongly pro-regime and hard-line nationalist group with de- bedrock of support for the regime. The
politically orthodox group with anti- cided anti-Semitic overtones, seems to miners have converted the site of the
Semitic tendencies into an organization be one of the few political entities to battle into an informal shrine. On the
of more independent views and liberal have survived martial law. The Grun- same day, the official Polish media
convictions, moved toward more tradi- wald group reappeared in 1981 with reported that 324 people, including 164
tional positions under martial law. support from conservative circles in the civilians and 160 policemen, had been
Ryszard Reiff, the chairman of PAX, party after a long period of inactivity. It injured and one person had been killed
was ousted from his position and purports to interpret Polish nationalism in Gdansk, the birthplace of Solidarity,
by tracing an alleged continuum of alien during street demonstrations near the
mentary group (ZNAK) in January, (i.e., Jewish) influence in events in monument to shipyard workers slain
reportedly because he was the only Poland from the security service purges there in 1970. Eyewitness accounts
member of the Council of State to vote of the 1950s to present Solidarity noted that the demonstrations conti-
against promulgating the state of emer- activists. nued, and a virtual police riot ensued on
gency. Polish universities have a long- December 17, 1981, as security forces
standing reputation for an independent broke the strike in the Gdansk ship-
From the outset, the regime sought to yards. The events in Gdansk on January
portray the Catholic Church's position spirit. Many of them were at least
partially paralyzed by student strikes 31, where a number of people were
on reconciliation as support for the injured and over 200 demonstrators
pacification aspects of its martial law during the month preceding martial
law. The strikes reflected impatience were arrested, were another example of
policies. As that premise became more the authorities' unrestricted use of force
difficult to project, a series of official with intentional government delays in
adopting a higher education bill em- against an unarmed populace. In mid-
press commentaries accused some February, security forces conducted a
members of the clergy ofcontributing to bodying long-awaited academic re-
forms. Universities throughout Poland massive countrywide sweep for sus-
the problems which led to the imposi- pected martial law violators. Official
tion of martial law. Trybuna Ludu were closed following the imposition of
martial law on December 13, 1981. Polish Press Agency reports indicated
expressed surprise over "provocative that 145,000 people were checked
and politically inciting gestures by some Most did not reopen until February 8.
Severe restrictions have been imposed during "Operation Calm"; 3,500 people
representatives of the clergy." One were detained and taken to a police
priest was arrested and received a three to keep Polish campuses under tight
control. The compulsory study of the station; 7,000 fines were imposed; and
and one-half-year prison sentence in 4,000 cases were referred to misde-
Koszalin province for allegedly "publicly Russian language and Marxism-Leni-
nism has been reintroduced (something meanor tribunals as a result of this
insulting and deriding...the ruling
both students and faculty fought hard major demonstration of force by the
authorities and...spreading false infor-
to have removed); a limited "verifica- authorities.
March and charged with concealing the tion" procedure has taken place in a In various statements, the military
murder weapon in connection with the number of universities; military com- regime's leaders have insisted that the
slaying of a militiaman on a Warsaw missars have been assigned to oversee decision to implement martiallaw
streetcar. the operation of the universities; and resulted from their revulsion at the
student and faculty ability to function is thought of Polish blood being shed in
There have been signs that some severely restricted. Henryk Samsono- fratricidal strife. It is impossible to
Polish officials have engaged in anti- wicz, the respected rector of Warsaw reconcile such statements with the
Semitic activities as part of the political University, was forced to resign his post employment of special heayily armed
oppression undertaken since December in early April. Later the faculty senate riot police and elite internal security
13, 1981. Brief expressions of anti- approved a resolution condemning the troops of the Interior Ministry to quell
Semitic sentiment and personal slurs dismissal process and the selection of a the actions of unarmed workers and
and innuendo appeared in several new rector without consulting the students.
newspaper articles denouncing promi- university.
nent opposition figures from Solidarity Since normal rights of assembly Despite continuous announcements
and the defunct Committee for Social remain suspended, in most universities in the official media about the return of
Self-Defense (KOR). The December 17 students and faculty may only visit the stability, normalcy, peace and social
and 18, 1981, issues of Trybuna Ludu campus for classes or to go directly to discipline, the martial law regime
gave short biographical sketches of the library. Students showing any type continues to exist. Gen. Jaruzelski's
prominent opposition activists and of politically deviant behavior are being announcement in the Sejm on January
outlined their past anti-regime activities. threatened with expulsion or military 25 that martial law restrictions would be
The articles pointed to alleged involve- lifted by the end of February was so
ment with "Zionism" and particularly qualified as to be almost meaningless,
to manifestations of support for Israel The Independent Association of and he made clear that many aspects of
in the late 1960s. For example, the Students, the student counterpart of martial law may continue indefinitely in
December 17 article stated that after Solidarity, was dissolved by the autho- the economic sector. Gen. Jaruzelski
release from prison in the early 1970s, rities on January 5 for alleged "subver- later told the Communist Party's Cen-
Jacek Kuron "established contact with sive and illegal activities"during martial tral Committee on February 24 that
emigre circles, and with Zionist, Trot- law. However, it reportedly has begun plans to end martial law restrictions had
skyite and Western sabotage centers." underground operations and issued been delayed by continued social and
The December 18 article described the clandestine bulletins commenting on industrial unrest. Some modifications
career of Bronislaw Geremek and stated various aspects of martial law. of martial law restrictions did take
that, "after the Israeli attack on Arab In implementing martial law, the place, principally in the areas of the
countries, he made known his revi- military regime has used considerable curfew, transportation and communi-
sionist views and turned in his party force to crush any signs of resistance cation. Limited public social gather-
card in 1969." From this time onward, — even passive resistance. The authori- ings, resumption of intercity telephone
"his main connections were with Zio- ties have employed tanks, small arms, communications on a censored basis
nist-revisionist centers." In a similar clubs, tear gas, rubber bullets and water and a relaxation of internal travel
vein, the Polish Press Agency on Ja- cannon to break up non-violent strikes restrictions were among the measures
nuary 9 described Solidarity adviser and demonstrations. Official state- announced by the beginning of March.
Seweryn Blumsztajn as "the favorite of ments acknowledged 10 deaths as a The curfew, which ran from 11 p.m. to 5
certain anarchist and cosmopolitan result of government suppression of a.m. in most parts of the country, was
circles in the West," and the Army protest actions, but unofficial and lifted temporarily on May 2 as part of a
newspaper Zolnierz Wolnosci on unconfirmed reports indicate a higher limited easing of martial law restric-
February 23 linked KOR with "Zionist number of fatalities. No firm estimates tions. The military authorities, citing
milieus seeking to antagonize Polish have been made of the number of "further progress in normalization of
society." persons injured and wounded in the public life," also announced the release
of 800 detainees on May 2 and granted,
The most glaring instance of pub- course of government "pacification"
lished anti-Semitism was an article in actions. (Continued on paft 14)
 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY
MEDIA ACTION COALITION
Toward accuracy in classification
It is with great pleasure that the MA Cpublishes this
article by our guest author, Andrew Turchyn. Dr.
Turchyn is professor and librarian emeritus, Indiana
University Library, Bloomington, Ind.
by Andrew Turchyn
In I960, when the Library of Congress was still
using its outdated classification schedules reflecting
the political situation in Europe before World War I, I
sent a memo to the Library of Congress suggesting
many changes in its classification schedules, subject
headings and main entries.
When my effort brought no change, in 1967 I asked
Sen. Milton B. Young to intervene. Pressure on the
ibrary of Congress was put also on forums of the
)la vie and East European Section of the Association
of College and Research Libraries, the American
Library Association, and the American Association
for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
In this way the Library of Congress became aware of
a general dissatisfaction with its cataloguing policy. As
a result, several important changes related to
cataloguing and classification of East European
materials were made. Slavic librarians accepted these
changes with satisfaction and hope that the Library of
Congress would finally make all of the necessary
improvements in cataloguing materials related to the
Soviet Union and its republics, the area most neglected
by the Library of Congress. However, the Library of
Congress postponed further changes.
Since lack of additional funds and personnel is one
of the usual Library of Congress excuses for not
making the necessary changes, in my letter of March
10, 1982, to the library I suggested only such changes
which required neither special funds nor personnel. It
was a test of good will.
Several years ago the Library of Congress accepted
the regional or ethnic principle, suggested by me, in the
new history schedule for Czechoslovakia. Now the
local history of Slovakia is included in the history
schedule of Slovakia, and this fact allows libraries to
keep all historical materials on Slovakia together.
However, the Library of Congress does not want to
apply this principle to the non-Russian republics of the
Soviet Union. The classification schedule History-
Class D contains the "tables for countries and regions
with single numbers or Cutter numbers." These tables
have been applied not only to the states created after
World War II in Africa and elsewhere but also to
several republics of the Soviet Union.
Yet, the Library of Congress practice does not allow
cataloguers to use the local history number of the
tables for the local history of the non-Russian
republics of the Soviet Union. Instead, cataloguers are
referred to the local history of Russia. By doing so, the
Library of Congress not only commits a mistake, but
also unnecessarily antagonizes some segments of our
population. To classify, for example, Kiev as a
Russian city is no less offensive to a Ukrainian
American than it would be to an Irish American to
classify Dublin as an English city.
Since there is no reason that cataloguers should not
use the local history number of the above-mentioned
tables for the non-Russian republics, I requested that
the Library of Congress change its policy as soon as
possible. I also asked the library to cancel the
restrictive notes, which tell cataloguers not to classify
the revolutionary periods of the years 1905-6 and
1917-21 within the history schedules of the non-
Russian republics, but as a local revolutionary history
of Russia (DK264.2 and DK265.8). Following these
discriminatory notes, cataloguers disperse the books,
which cover some very important periods, including
the period of independence of several republics
among materials covering the history of Russia.
Since I did not receive an answer to my letter of
March 10, 1982, on May 3 I wrote a letter to Richard
Richards, chairman of the Republican National
Committee, and to Sen. Richard G. Lugar, asking
them for their support of my action. I also sent a letter
to Augustus F. Hawkins, chairman. Joint Committee
on the Library, asking him for his intervention.
In my letter to Sen. Lugar I wrote: "Since, according
to the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, the Ukrai-
nian city Cbemihiv, for example, has been called
SUNDAY. OCTOBER 3.1982
at the Library of
Chernigov and classified according to the Library of
Congress classification schedules as a Russian city, all
American libraries, press, television, etc. regard this
Ukrainian city as a Russian one. It is laudable that
each year in Congress we celebrate the Captive Nations
Week and commemorate the independence of U-
kraine, Byelorussia, and some other captive nations
but it seems that these actions of ours become
meaningless when in everyday life we negate our
solemn addresses."
Finally I received an answer from the Library of
Congress to my letter of March 10. Lucia J. Rather,
director of cataloguing, informed me in her letter of
June 28 that the Subject Cataloguing Division had
agreed to relocate history schedules of some of the
non-Russian republics and to provide each of them
with its own local history number. However, the
library decided that "all matters involving the
Revolution should be classed in DK.265.95 according
to existing policy."
As far as Ukrainian local history is concerned, my
efforts brought a complete success. From now on, all
provinces, cities and towns of Ukraine will be
classified within the history schedule of Ukraine, and
not of Russia, as it was before.
In my answer to Ms. Rather of July 7,1 wrote: "If
the Library of Congress is not in the position now to
make a new schedule for the Soviet Union, then it
would be advisable to have the schedules of the non-
Russian republics outside the schedule of Russia. In
this way the Russian history material would be left
together and the material related to each non-Russian
republic would follow it according to the relocated
schedules. The best place for them would, in my
opinion, be between DK1000 and DK4000. In such an
arrangement the non-Russian republics would be
treated the same way as the Slovaks in the history
schedule of Czechoslovakia and the non-Serbs in the
new schedule of Yugoslavia."
In regard to the library's refusal to remove the
restrictive notes concerning the revolutions in the
former Russian Empire, I brought several arguments
which ought to prove that the present Library of
Congress policy is neither just nor logical, but is a sign
of favoritism applied to no nation other than the
Russian.
I am glad that meanwhile the Media Action
Coalition published in The Ukrainian Weekly (May
23, 1982) the article "Toward accuracy in classification
systems" and recommended writing letters to con-
gressmen and senators concerning the Library of
Congress cataloguing policy. The MAC's action dis-
turbed the Library of Congress. Mary K. D. Pietris, chief,
Subject Cataloguing Division, prepared the "Library of
Congress Statement on Subject Headings for Russians
and the Soviet Union" and sent it to Rep. Hawkins,
who forwarded it to me.
In my letter to Ms. Pietris of August 3,1 stressed
that her complaint that The Ukrainian Weekly "has
misunderstood and misrepresented the position of the
Library of Congress" was not justified. The Ukrainian
Weekly did not change her statement. It only informed
its readers about the library's decision to use
"Russian" as the general adjective for citizens of the
Soviet Union and recommended action against it. The
non-Russians who constitute about one-half of the
entire population of the Soviet Union simply do not
wish to be called "Russians" and there is nothing
wrong with it.
The book titled "Soviet Cooking Today" should
never have the heading "Cookery, Russian," but only
"Cookery, Soviet." It is quite true that "most educated
Americans fail to distinguish the subtle difference
between 'Russians' and 'Soviet people' and use the
terms interchangeably." However, it shows that these
Americans, although well educated in their fields, are
quite ignorant in the field of Soviet studies. It is sad
that the Library of Congress has contributed much to
this ignorance by its outdated classification and
incorrect subject headings.
The Ukrainian community should not be silent
when misinformation about Ukraine and Ukrainians
is constantly disseminated. Thanks to my and other
librarians' efforts, the Library of Congress made
several changes in its cataloguing and classification.
Now Ukraine's name appears after the geographical
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names of Ukraine (e.g., Brody, Ukraine, and not
Brody, Russia, as it was until 1967) and in indirect
subdivisions (e.g., Agriculture — Ukraine — Crimea,
and not Agriculture — Russia - Crimea), the Soviet
Union is no longer called "Russia," and the Ukrainian
provinces, cities, towns, etc. will be classified within
the history schedule of Ukraine. Still there are many
other changes which ought to be made.
The Library of Congress has to stop treating
Ukraine as a province of Russia, as reflected in the
Class A (4th ed., 1973) and in some other classification
schedules. Each Soviet republic should have its
classification schedules outside and not inside the
classification schedules of Russia. It is not enought to
change the heading "Russia" to the "Soviet Union"
and to have the outdated classification schedules
unchanged. The classification schedules related to the
Soviet Union have to be elaborated. All constituent
republics of the USSR should be listed in the tables of
subdivisions in the various classification schedules,
especially in the "Tables of Geographical Divisions" of
the Class H and the "Tables of Subdivisions" in the
Class N.
The Library of Congress has to remove all traces of
misconceptions based on the outdated assertions that
the USSR is Russia and that all Eastern Slavs are
Russians. Furthermore, the Library of Congress has
to make the necessary changes in its classification
schedules and subject headings related to history,
language, literature, etc. of Kievan Rus'. We cannot be
silent as long the Library of Congress deprives us of
our glorious past and the rich cultural heritage of
Kievan Rus'. We also have to protest to the U.S. Board
of Geographic Names against use of the Russian form of
the geographic names of Ukraine. The Library of
Congress will stop using the Russian form only after
the U.S. Board on Geographic Names accepts the
Ukrainian form.
Immediate action should be led by our representa-
tion in this country, as well as by our scientific
societies, institutes and professional associations.
Library of Congress statement
on subject headings for
Russians and Soviet Union
In the May 23, 1982, issue of The Ukrainian
Weekly, the following "Action Item" appeared:
"The Library of Congress, an official arm of the
legislative branch of our government, has unilate-
rally decreed that everyone in the USSR is a
Russian and every aspect related to the identity of
the 100 nations and nationalities within the
common framework of the USSR is Russian. This
is the type of information that the Library of
Congress will furnish to every federal legislator who
will request any information on the USSR.
"RECOMMENDED ACTION: Write to your
federal representatives, congressman and senators
and ask them please to investigate why the Library
of Congress intends to misinform them on the
subject of the USSR. Also write or call every
candidate running for a federal office and ask them
to express their position on this issue."
(Then followed information on how to discover
the names of congressmen and senators, and the
suggestion to send copies of the letters to "Mr. D. J.
Boorstine fsicj, librarian, and Office of the Director
of Cataloguing" and to Rep. Augustus F. Hawkins
and Sen. Charles McC. Mathias Jr.)
The Ukrainian Weekly has misunderstood and
misrepresented the position of the Library of
Congress. Below is a description of our actual
policies.
Until January 1981, the subject heading "Russia"
was used to describe the country of the Soviet
Union and its historical development from earliest
times through the centuries up to today. In January
1981, the subject heading "Russia" was replaced by
the subject heading "Soviet Union." All date
subdivisions formerly included under Russia are
 NsJfi. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. OCTOBER 3.1982 9

ACTION ITEMS Write to: Jack Anderson, care of your local

Library of Congress revisited
Many persons who wrote to their federal represen­
tatives after reading the Library of Congress "Action
Item" in the May 23 issue of The Ukrainian Weekly
received responses which included the library of
Congress statement printed in this MAC edition.
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Write back to your U.S. representative and
senators, and indicate that the Library of Congress
statement is full of inaccuracies and only reinforces the
purpose of your original letter. Dr. Andrew Turchyn's
response to the Library of Congress (also published in
this MAC edition) raises several valid points for you to
consider in your own response.
Public concern via congressional inquiry about the
Library of Congress Subject Headings practice
resulted in response from the Library of Congress.
This process should be encouraged through continued
correspondence with members of Congress. Our
federal representatives'awareness of inaccuracies will,
in turn, be reflected in changes to the cataloguing
system.
Send copies to: Dr. Andrew Turchyn, librarian and
professor emeritus, Indiana University Library,
Bloomington, Ind. 47405; and to the president of the
Ukrainian Library Association of America: Dr.
Dmytro Shtohryn, Special Languages Department,
University of Illinois Library, Urbana, 111. 61801.
Jack Anderson's columns
newspaper.
Send copy to: the editor of your local newspaper.
U.S. News A World Report
In reply to an inquiry as to why the U.S. News A
World Report interchangeably uses the terms "Russia"
and "USSR," Ben. F. Phlegar,executive editor, stated
the following:
"While using 'Russia' and 'Soviet Union' inter­
changeably may be technically inaccurate, we believe
that common and conversational usage makes them
acceptable. As you know, the practice is common in
magazines, newspapers, radio, television and in
books. We do not believe the oversimplification
misleads any reader or listener, which is the important
thing."
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Since this is the same standard answer that the U.S.
News A World Report has been using for the last four
years, write to Ben F. Phlegar and tell him that, yes
you are confused by their practice and that you indeed
expect more from their publication than just simple
oversimplifications.
Write to: Ben. F. Phlegar, executive editor, U.S.
News A. World Report, 2300 N. St., NW, Washington,
D C . 20037.
Send copies to: M. L. Stone, editor; L. Tanzer,
managing editor; J. H. Sweet, publisher.
Ben Wattenberg
with the entire families of the principals of the Helsinki
movement. The Sichkos, father and son, were
reaching the end of their term; now they have been
resentenced to an extra three years. The leader of the
Ukrainian movement, Mykola Rudenko, and his wife
are in jail. He has spinal injuries. There is no
medication made available to him."
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
If your local newspaper carries Mr. Wattenberg's
column, write to the letters editor and express your
appreciation of this fact. If not then write to Mr.
Wattenberg directly and thank him for bringing
information about Ukraine to the attention of the
American public.
Write to: Ben. J. Wattenberg, c/o American
Enterprise institute, 1150 17th St., NW, Washington,
D.C. 20036.
Lucy S. Dawidowkz
Ms. Dawidowicz, seeker of truth and inveterate
chronicler of the "evil" Ukrainians, in her book "The
Holocaust and the Historians" (Harvard University
Press), makes the following observations: "The
Ukrainians became Germany's most diligent colla­
borators. They even turned up as helpers in the murder
of the Jews as far from home as the Warsaw ghetto,
where they served as auxiliaries to Gen. Jurgen
Stroop's SS troops in putting down the uprising in the
Warsaw ghetto in April-May 1943."
Are these the type of "facts" that Ms. Dawidowicz
advocates should be taught as a mandatory curriculum
on the Holocaust in our public schools?

Most recently, nationally syndicated columnist RECOMMENDED ACTION:

Jack Anderson has published two columns dealing
with Ukraine and I or Ukrainians. On September 19 his
column compared the plight of a Swedish family with
the case of Walter Polovchak. Three days later, Mr.
Anderson wrote a lengthy column discussing Soviet
oppression of Ukraine and its relation to the Solidarity
movement.
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Let Mr. Anderson know of your appreciation for his
efforts in publicizing the repression in Ukraine.
Secondly, remind him tactfully that Walter Polov­
chak's parents returned not to Russia, but to Ukraine.
Ben Wattenberg, United Features syndicated
columnist as well as an eminent scholar and an
assistant to former President Lyndon B. Johnson,
recently wrote two columns which included informa­
tion on Ukraine.
In a column for the week of September 7, he wrote:
"The Russians, as of this moment, still make up 52
percent of the USSR's population. The 'Slavic'
republics, which include not only Russians but 50
million Ukrainians, make up 72 percent of the USSR
(although many Ukrainians also feel captured, not
captivated, by the Russians)."
In a column for the week of September 20, he wrote:
"In fthej Ukraine, the authorities have taken to dealing
Write to Ms. Dawidowicz and ask her if she is as
ready to condemn the whole Jewish nation for the
bloody pogroms in Lebanon and the Rosh Hashanah
massacre in Beirut as she is so eager to condemn every
Ukrainian?
Write to: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, 200 W. 86th St.,
Apt. 20L, New York, N.Y. 10024.
Send copies to: A. J. Rosenthal, director, Harvard
University Press, 79 Garden St., Cambridge, Mass.
02138; and to: Prof. O. Pritsak, director, Harvard
University Ukrainian Research Institute, 1S83
Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Mass. 02138.

being transferred to the new heading. These
changes will appear in the January-June 1981 issue
of the supplement to Library of Congress Subject
Headings to be published this summer.
This practice cbrresponds with our general
practice of using as a subject heading only the latest
form of name for a country. Under this latest form
of name are included those historical date subdi­
visions back to the earliest time period when both
the geographical extent of the country and its name
may have been different. This practice is similar to
the practice in general encyclopedias such as the
World Book, where, in the article on Russia, its
history is described as beginning around 1000 B.C.,
and the history of the United States is described
starting "more than 20,000years ago."In both cases
the history of the currently existing country is
described as beginning long before the present
government came into existence.
In our subject heading system, the republics of
the Soviet Union, such as Ukraine, Latvia and the
Uzbek SSR, and the states of the United States,
such as Pennsylvania, Delaware and Utah, exist as
separately named entities. Under each of these there
may also be historical dates listed. However, for the
United States, no history period is given before the
"Colonial period, ca. 1600-1770." The republics of
the Soviet Union are treated differently, in that
early history may be covered by an indication that
works are written about the area up to a certain
significant date, such as "Ukraine — History - To
1648" and "Latvia - History - To 1562." Specific
time periods may be added as warranted by the
books catalogued at the Library of Congress.
When we adopted the term "Soviet Union" in
1981 we decided to retain the language and
nationality adjective "Russian" and to continue our
60-year-old practice of using "Russian" as the
general adjective for citizens of the Soviet Union
instead of introducing the adjective "Soviet." We
recognize that this practice requires the word
"Russian" to do double duty, first as a specific
nationality designation, and second as a collective
word describing all Soviet citizens. We are well
aware that not all Soviet citizens are "Russians" in
the limited nationality sense. We were, however,
persuaded to continue our practice of using
"Russians" in a broad sense because the distinction
between Russian and Soviet is not commonly made
by persons using library card catalogues, nor by
many authors of general books. To require that
both users and cataloguers distinguish whether, for
instance, the movie "The Russians Are Coming,
The Russians Are Coming" was really about people
of the Russian nationality or about Russians,
Ukrainians, Byelorussians, etc. so that the term
"Soviet" could be used, places an intolerable
burden on people to make a distinction where none
may have been intended or can be possible.
People should be assured, however, if a work
were catalogued that is specifically and unam­
biguously identified as concerning one specific
republic or nationality within the Soviet Union,
such as on Ukraine or Ukrainians, it would receive
an appropriate and specific heading. Similarly, if a
work were catalogued on two republics or nationa­
lities such as Ukraine and Lithuania, it would
receive an appropriate heading for each. If a work
were catalogued on three of the nationalities in the
Soviet Union, it would receive headings for all
three. However, only if the work covered four or
more nationalities or republics would the heading
"Russians" (in this case meaning "citizens of the
Soviet Union ") or "Soviet Union" be used. This is our
general rule of three: if more than three similiar
headings --are needed, assign the next
broader heading available. We accept: the
ambiguous use of "Russian" as ч language, a
nationality, and a substitute for "Soviet" on the
basis of convenience for cataloguers and for general
users of catalogues. Regardless of the technically
narrow meaning of the term "Russian," we accept
that most educated Americans fail to distinguish
the subtle difference between "Russians" and
"Soviet people" and use the two terms inter­
changeably.
To ensure understanding of our practices, here is
another example. If we catalogue a book titled
"Soviet Cooking Today," it would receive the
subject "Cookery, Russian" in two cases: 1) if it is
about cookery in more than three republics or
reflecting more than three nationalities in the
Soviet Union, or 2) if it is limited to cookery in the
RFSFR fsicj or by people of the Russian nationality. A
work on Ukrainian cookery will receive the heading
"Cookery, Ukrainian," a work on Uzbek cookery
the heading "Cookery, Uzbek," and so forth.
We hive no intention whatsoever of ignoring the
nationalities that make up the Soviet Union and
will recognize them whenever appropriate to do so
in our cataloguing. We also have no intention of
misinforming congressmen and senators on the
subject of the USSR. The author of "Action Items"
has misinterpreted our practices. — Mary K. D.
Pietris, chief, Subject Cataloguing Division,
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540.
Comment on statement
by Library of Congress
This is my comment on the "Library of Congress
Statement on Subject Headings for Russians and
the Soviet Union," which you presented at the
conference of the Ukrainian Library Association of
America in Philadelphia. I am sorry that I cannot
agree with your arguments. The fallacy lies in your
regarding "Russia" and the "Soviet Union" as
identical terms. Russia (RSFSR) is not the Soviet
Union, but a part of it. The Soviet Union is not the
latest form of name for the country called Russia, as
your statement mistakenly implies. Therefore, you
(Continued on pap 12)
 10
MEDIA ACTION COALITION
COMBAT
CORRESPONDENCE
Ш "Twenty-two years ago I sent my first memo­
randum to the Library of Congress concerning the
necessary changes in its main entries, subject headings,
and classification schedules, which were dictated by
the political changes in Europe after 1914. The Library
of Congress, as well as many other libraries could have
avoided many problems and unnecessary expenses, if
the LC would not have ignored my suggestions for
many years, but had accepted them in time, when
Slavic collections in North America were still
relatively small. ...
"1 do know the reasons why a few years ago the LC
had temporarily to postpone working on further
changes. Although it seems to me that the situation has
changed recently for the better, nevertheless in this
letter I would like to propose nothing else but a
cancellation of some discriminatory notes, the
removing of which requires neither additional funds
nor personnel, and could be done in a few minutes.
"Several years ago the LC accepted the regional, or
ethnic principle in the new history schedule for
Czechoslovakia. Now the local history of Slovakia is
included in the history schedule of Slovakia and this
fact allows libraries to keep all historical materials on
Slovakia together. However, the LC does not want to
apply this principle to the non-Russian republics of the
Soviet Union. ...
"My final request to the Library of Congress is to
cancel also the restrictive notes, which tell cataloguers
not to classify the revolutionary periods of the years
1905-6 and 1917-21 within the history schedules of the
non-Russian republics, but as a local revolutionary
history of Russia (DK264.2 and DK26S.8). Following
these discriminatory notes, cataloguers disperse the
books, which cover the very important periods
including the period of independence of several
republics, among materials covering history of
Russia...." - Andrew Turchyn, librarian and professor
emeritus, Indiana University Library, Bloomington,
Ind., in a letter to William J. Welsh, deputy librarian
of Congress, Washington.
Ш "...The action you have taken thus far appears to
be correct. However, if you have not already done so,
it would be beneficial to write to the chairman of the
Joint Committee on the Library who has oversight of
Library of Congress administration. ...
"I appreciate your support and wish you every
success in your endeavors." - Richard Richards,
chairman, Republican National Committee, in a letter
to Andrew Turchyn.
Ш "In 1960, when I was head of the Slavic Section
and associate head of the Catalogue Department,
Indiana University Library, Bloomington, Ind., I sent
a memorandum to the Library of Congress in which I
suggested many changes in its main entries, subject
headings and classification schedules dictated by the
changes in the political map of Eastern Europe.
"It was hard to believe that the Library of Congress,
which ought to be the center of correct and up-to-date
information, would as late as I960 still use the
unrevised classification schedules which reflected the
political situation in Eastern Europe before 1914.
"For many years the Library of Congress continued
to refuse to make the necessary changes. Only after
pressure was exerted by the Slavic and East European
Section of the Association of College and Research
Libraries, as well as the American Association for the
Advancement of Slavic Studies did the Library of
Congress finally make some of the suggested changes.
However, it still regards the non-Russian republics of
the Soviet Union as provinces of Russia and classifies
their regions and cities as Russian ones. By doing
so, the Library of Congress not only misinforms our
public, but also supports the Russians and discourages
the enslaved peoples in their struggle for freedom.
"Since in the past the Library of Congress refused to
make the necessary changes supposedly for economic
THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3.1982 No. 40
reasons, in my letter of March 10, a copy of which is that we are not able to follow through on it, since to do
enclosed, I suggested only such changes which would so would violate our policy for the treatment of wars,
require no additional funds or personnel. Yet, to this revolutions, etc. Today we provide only one block of
day, even the receipt of my letter was not acknow­ numbers for an event of this kind in the schedule,
ledged. ..." - Andrew Turchyn, in a letter to Rep. including provision for local history. If exceptions do
Augustus F. Hawkins, chairman, Joint Committee on exist in the various history schedules, they stem from
the Library, Washington. earlier times when other policies may have been in
effect. Therefore, all matters involving the Revolution
Ш "Several years ago, when I had pleasure of
should be classed in DK265-265.95 according to
existing policy. We do not wish to disperse the
meeting you at a sports event in Bloomington, I talked material. ..." - Lucia J. Rather, director for cata­
with you about my disappointment with the Library of
Congress concerning its policy of cataloguing Slavic
loguing, Library of Congress, Washington, in a letter
to Andrew Turchyn.
and East European materials. At that time you
expressed your willingness to do whatever might be
Ш "I am grateful to you and glad that I finally
appropriate in order to improve the situation. Now it received the answer to my letter of March 10,
seems to me that I have to ask you for your help.
addressed to Mr. William J. Welsh, deputy librarian of
"For several decades the Library of Congress Congress. ...
neglected to recognize many changes that occurred on
"The Library of Congress has heard many times and
the political map of Europe in the 20th century, when from many persons that the classification schedules
several East European countries, previously ruled by
related to the area and peoples of the Soviet Union
Austria, Germany, Russia and Turkey, became either have been in the most urgent need of revision. Yet, the
fully independent states or federated republics.
answer usually has been that such a revision has not
According to the Library of Congress classification been possible at the present time, although at the same
schedules, such Czechoslovak territories as Moravia
time entirely new classification schedules were being
and Slovakia, for example, as late as 197S still were prepared for several countries (Albania, Czechoslo­
regarded as the Austrian provinces; ... There was a
vakia, Poland, Yugoslavia, etc.) and major shifts in
similar situation with Poland. The Polish provinces, collections were being made....
cities, etc. were classified as Austrian, German or
"In LC Classification" Add it ions and Changes, list
Russian ones as if Poland still was partitioned in'
205, January-March 1982, the Library of Congress
1975. ...
presents an entirely new history schedule for Yugo­
"...Only in the 70s the Library of Congress started toslavia. At the beginning of it there is a note: For works
make some changes under the pressure of the Slavic
limited to specific republics, see the individual
and East European Section of the Association of republic.... Why, then, is it not possible to rework in
College and Research Libraries as well as the
the same way the classification schedule for the Soviet
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Union, or at least to apply the same principle of
Studies. However, the most urgent changes, related to
keeping together all materials on a specific republic
Russia and the Soviet Union, have been postponed. even within the present, classification schedule? ...
For the Library of Congress, our de facto national
"In regard to my second proposal, you write that the
library and supposed center of up-to-date and correct LC is not able to follow through on it, since to do so
information, the Soviet Union did not even exist in
would violate our policy for the treatment of wars,
1980. ... revolutions, etc." In spite of the fact that the LC has
"Instead of demanding from the Russians that they
special schedules for both world wars, the years 1914-8
respect the rights of the non-Russian republics, and 1939-45 are not eliminated from the history
provided in their constitutions, we ourselves treat
schedules of individual countries, are they? I also do
these republics as colonies of Russia. not know what other revolutions, besides the Russian
"The Library of Congress, by its policy of cata­
ones, you have in mind, which are treated the same
loguing materials related to these republics, has been way. Besides, the LC does not apply the restrictive
creating the public opinion that these republics are
notes to the entire area of the former Russian Empire,
indeed the provinces of Russia.... but only to those republics which have not been
"As far as the Library of Congress is concerned, 1 successful in their struggle for independence. Although
wish nothing else from our de facto national library today the status of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania is
but accurate information for our public about Russia' not better than that of Ukraine (which is a member of
and the non-Russian republics of the Soviet Union.... the U.N.), there are no restrictive notes in their
"I shall appreciate, if you, Dear Sen. Lugar, and schedules, not mentioning. Poland and Finland,
perhaps some of your colleagues in the Congress former parts of the Russian Empire. ...
would be willing to investigate the situation at the "I assure you, Dear Ms. Rather, that all librarians
Library of Congress and to press for the necessary
dealing with the Slavic and East European.materials
changes. ..." — Andrew Turchyn, in a letter to Sen. would be delighted if the LC would apply the same
Richard G. Lugar, Washington. principles in cataloguing materials related to the non-
Russian republics of the Soviet Union, which the LC
Ш "I was very glad to receive your recent letter not long ago started to apply to the constituent
mailed upon your return from Urbana, 111. republics of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, as is
reflected in their new history schedules." — Andrew
"When I received a copy of your previous Turchyn, in a letter to Lucia J. Rather.
correspondence to me concerning Library of Congress
cataloguing of Slavic and East European materials, I
wrote immediately to the librarian of Congress, Mr. Ш "Thank you for bringing to public attention the
Daniel Boorstin. distinctive role Ukraine plays within the Soviet Union,
"I requested Mr. Boorstin to have someone on his and the fear Ukrainian nationalism instills in the
staff address the concerns you have about Library of Russian Communist hierarchy ('Kremlin Fears
Congress policy and its failure to recognize the current Restive Ukraine', September 22). It is high time that
geographic situation...." - Sen. Richard G. Lugar, in the West recognizes the powerful allies it has in the
a letter to Andrew Turchyn. non-Russian republics of the USSR. ...
"My only disagreement with the article deals with
your description of Ukrainian support of the Germans
U "Your letter in which you proposed that the against the Russians. While it is true that at the
library initiate several changes in the text of Subclass beginning of the war Ukrainians expected the German
DK of the LC Classification' System, was referred to troops to be civilized Western liberators, and so
me for reply as I have overall responsibility for the proclaimed independence in 1941, they all too quickly
cataloguing processes at the Library of Congress. „. realized that their German invaders were just as
"These proposals were referred to the Subject tyrannical and brutal as the Russians. The Organiza­
Cataloguing Division, the division that is charged with tion of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian
the responsibility for developing and maintaining the Insurgent Army began a two-front war against both
LC Classification System. In reviewing the first the Nazis and the Russians. In fact, it was the
proposal the division did agree that a few simple Ukrainian army that assassinated Victor Lutze,achief
rearrangements in Subclass DK were possible along the of the Nazi SS forces and one of Himmler's most
lines that you suggested.... With the exception of the trusted aides in 1943.
localities of the Russian SFSR, all of the localities "Hence Ukraine should not be considered an ally of
currently provided for under DK511 or DK651 would the Germans, but rather a country which faced the
be shifted to their corresponding numbers under the impossible task of struggling against two hostile forces
individual republics. The localities of the Russian simultaneously. The fight against Berlin has ended;
SFSR, however, would remain where they are, and the the one with Moscow has been - and will be —
span DK511-651, would be used henceforth solely for continued." - Katberine C. Chumachenko, director,
localities of this republic. „. Ukrainian National Information Service, Washing­
"In regard to the second proposal we wish to state ton, in a letter to Jack Anderson, Washington.
No. 40 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. OCTOBER 3.1982 11

Ukrainian street names abound throughout U.S.

by Stephen P. Holutiak-Hailick Jr.
Scattered throughout the United States are
numerous areas which bear Ukrainian names. Taken
as a whole the collection of cities, villages, post offices,
parks, bridges, vacation resorts and streets totals, to
date, approximately 150.
In recent articles the two most common Ukrainian
placenames in the United States - Mazeppa and
Odessa — were presented. The purpose of this
discussion is to catalogue the streets which bear or
bore Ukrainian names and influences.
The majority of Ukrainian immigrants settled in the
industrial center of the United States. However, the
trappings of city life or mining-steel town did not stop
them from leaving an imprint of their culture. Tothisend,
one could say that these circumstances served to
strengthen their will to ensure that others knew who
Ukrainians were. The American way of life has
affected all ethnic communities; some for the better,
others for worse. Yet, as the old neighborhoods
disappear, certain landmarks, such as streets, remain
to remind one, if so inclined, of the past — if only in a
name!
An analysis of the street names in our collection
reveals certain generalizations. First, some names are
transplanted geographic features which remind people
of their Ukrainian homeland. Other names are in
honor of prominent historic and literary figures .of
Ukraine. Interestingly, a number of streets are named
in honor of Ukrainian immigrants or their American-
born offspring who made lasting contributions or
sacrifices to the United States. Such cases are reserved
mostly for U.S. servicemen killed in action or for
prominent citizens. Lastly, there are streets which bear
organization or family names of early settlers and or
land developers.
How each street name came about is not our
purpose, although information is available.1 Here, our
purpose is only to form a registry.
Existing streets
11. Geba Road, Glen Spey, N.Y. (circa 1966 -
present).
12. Ginda Avenue, Carteret, N.J. (mid 1950s -
present).
13. Halko Drive, Township of Hanover, Morris
County, N.J. (early 1960s - present).
14. Ivanitsky Terrace, Carteret, N.J. (mid 1950s -
present).
15. Hollowaty-Kozak Road, Glen Spey, N.Y. (circa
1966 - present).
16. Hunczek Boulevard, Glen Spey, N.Y. (circa
1966 - present).
17. General Samuel Jaskilka Highway, Shelton,
Conn. (1980 - present).
18. Kindrachuk Road No. 1, Glen Spey, N.Y. (circa
1966 - present).
19. Kindrachuk Road No. 2, Glen Spey, N.Y. (circa
1966 - present).
20. Kuzyk Road, Creamridge, N.J. (circa 1952 -
present).
21. Lepky Avenue, Creamridge, N.J. (circa 1952 -
present).
22. Maliniak Street, Monessen, Pa. (1925-present).
23. Markowitz Street, Carteret, N.J. (mid 1950s -
present).
24. Mazeppa Road, Mazeppa, N.C. (? - present).
25. Minue Street, Carteret, N.J. (1954 - present).
26. Niader Court, Clifton, N.J. (1974 - present).
27. Odessa A v e n u e , Van N u y s , Calif. (1923 -
present).
28. Odessa Drive, Yorba Linda, Calif. (1968 -
present).
29. Odessa Place, Pittsburgh (East Liberty), Pa.
(pre-1913 - present).
30. Pitio Road, Glen Spey, N.Y. (circa 1966-
present).
31. Rohatyn Street, South Plainfield (Nova
Ukraine), N.J. (1927 - present).
32. St. John's Parkway, Johnson City, N.Y. (1953 -
present).
33. St. Josaphet Drive, Warren, Mich. (1973 -
present).
(Continued oo pare 12)

1. Stephen T. Holutiak-Hailick Jr., "Slavic Toponymic . Holutiak-Hailick Jr.

1. Andrew Drive, Sterling Heights, Mich, (mid
Atlas of the United States, Volume I: Ukrainian''(New York:
1950 - present).
Slavic Onomastic Research Group, 1982), 145 pp. Carpathb Street in South Plainfield, N J .
2. Bandera Drive, Ann Arbor, Mich. (1964 -
present).
3. Baran Drive , Glen Spey, N.Y. (early 1960s - U.S INITIATIVES TO CHANGE AN EXISTING N A M E
present). TO ONE BEARING A UKRAINIAN N A M E
4. Bohdan Place, South Plainfield (Nova Ukraine),
N.J. (1927 - present).
5. C a p p Street, Carteret, N.J. (mid 1950s - Year Location From To Results
present).
6. Carpethia Street, South Plainfield (Nova 1. 1958 - Panne, Ohio Marioncliff Drive Shevchenko Boulevard not attained
Ukraine), N.J. (1927 - present).
7. Dibrova Drive, Brighton, Mich. (1955 - present). 2. Kiev or Lviv Street not attained
1958 Parma, Ohio 33rd Street
8. Fanok Road, Township of Hanover, Morris
County, N.J. (early 1930s - present).
3. 1961 Passaic, N.J. Hope Avenue Shevchenko Avenue Obtained
9. Franko Avenue, South Plainfield (Nova
or Taras Shevchenko
Ukraine), N.J. (1927 - present).
President Street Park in 1964
10. Ivan Franko Road, Glen Spey, N.Y. (circa 1979-
present).
4. 1968 Carnegie, Pa. Mansfield Boulevard Kiev Boulevard not attained

5. 1968 Philadelphia, Pa. Street in Logan Shevchenko Avenue Obtained

or Oak Lane area Taras Shevchenko
Park in 1969
instead

6. 1979/81 Uniondale, N.Y. Newport Road Shevchenko Avenue Local opposition

of residents

7. 1981 Honolulu, Hawaii (new street) Liasiansky Avenue In organizational

planning stage

8. 1982 Syracuse, N.Y. (new street) Shevchenko Avenue Resolution

approved by City
Council, pending
vote

9. 1982 Johnson City, N.Y Ukrainian Place Letter sent

from Umman
to City officials
requesting street
Ukraine Road in Hanover Township, N J .
 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 , 1 9 8 2 No. 40

recommended action against it. The non-Russians In your statement you wrote that "most educated
Comment on statement... who constitute about one-half of the entire Americans fail to distinguish the subtle difference
(Continued frowjpejeJ) population of the Soviet Union simply do not wish between 'Russians'and 'Soviet people'and use the
committed a great mistake when you transferred all to be called "Russians," and there is nothing wrong two terms interchangeably." I agree with you that
date subdivisions formerly included under Russia in it. such a sad situation exists. Many Americans, well
to the heading "Soviet Union." Russia did not In your statement you have mentioned the educated in their fields, quite often are ignorant in
disappear when the Soviet Union was created". You library rule of three. However,'you have wrongly the field of foreign affairs. I am sorry to say that the
should not be misled by the fact that the Russians applied it in the case involved. The term "Russian" LC has contributed much to this ignorance by its
have ruled the Soviet Union and have kept the non- in no way can be regarded as the next broader outdated classification and wrong subject headings.
Russian peoples in captivity. heading for "Russian," "Estonian," "Latvian," and I hope that you, Ms. Pietris, willfindmy criticism
all other "non-Russian" elements in the Soviet objective and constructive. Since 1960, when I sent
Your complaint that The Ukrainian Weekly of Union. The next broader heading is "Soviet." The my first suggestions to the LC, my only wish has
May 23, 1982, "has misunderstood and misrepre­ book titled "Soviet Cooking Today" should receive been to improve LC cataloguing and classification.
sented the position of the Library of Congress" is the subject "Cookery, Soviet" and not "Cookery, Looking at my long correspondence with the LCas
not justified. You yourself wrote in the statement: Russian." well as my publications, one may see now whether I
"When we adopted the term 'Soviet Union'in 1981 was right or wrong. Many changes have already
we decide to retain the language and nationality If a book is titled "Soviet Literature Today" it been made by the LC although the unnecessary
adjective 'Russian' and to continue our 60-year-old should not be classified as Russian literature. We delays have been costly. Much still has to be done
practice of using 'Russian'as the general adjective might have the subject heading "Jews, Russian," if and I perceive it as my duty to serve our de facto
for citizens of the Soviet Union instead of intro­ we deal with Jews in Russia. However, if Jews are national library with my experience. — Andrew
ducing the adjective 'Soviet.' " The Ukrainian related to several republics, or to the Soviet Union Turchyn, professor and librarian emeritus, Indiana
Weekly did not change your statement. It only in general, the subject heading "Jews, Soviet" University Library, Bloomington, Ind., in a letter to
informed its readers about the LC decision and should be used. Mary K.D. Pietris.

Ukrainian street.. 50. Stefanyk Road, Glen Spey, N.Y. (circa 1966 -
present).
(CoBtinowlfrompettn) 51. Stanley Switlik Drive, Hamilton Township, N.J.
34. St. Michael's Street, South Plainfield (Nova (1980 - present).
Ukraine), N.J. (1927 - present). 52. Sunflower Drive, Glen Spey, N.Y. (circa 1966-
35. St. Olga's Place, S o u t h Plainfield ( N o v a present).
Ukraine), N.J. (1927 - present). 53. Teliska Avenue, Defreetsville, N.Y. (1949 -
36. St. Vladimir Street, Los Angeles C o u n t y , present).
California (? - present). 54. Ukraine Road, Township of Hanover, Morris
37. Sarniak Street, Monessen, Pa. (1925 -present). County, N.J. (1961 - present).
38. Sheptytzky Avenue, Creamridge, N.J. (circa 55. Ukraine Drive, Columbus, Ga. (1967 - present).
1952 - present). 56. Ukrainian Street, M o n e s s e n , Pa. (1925 -
39. Shevchenko Drive, Ann Arbor, Mich. (1964 - present).
present). 57. Wortylko Street, Carteret, N.J. (mid 1950s -
40. Shevchenko Avenue, Auburn, N.Y. (1957 - present).
present).
41. Shevchenko Avenue, Creamridge, N.J. (circa Private streets t h a t " w e r e "
1952 - present).
42. Taras Shevchenko Road, Glen Spey, N.Y. (1965 1. Burztyn Drive, Columbus, Ga. (1964-81).
- present). 2. Demianow Drive, Columbus, Ga. (1964-81). SS.P. Holutiak-HallickJr.
43. Shevchenko Place, New York, N.Y. (1978 - 3. Galicia Drive, Columbus, Ga. (1964-81). Shevchenko Place in Spring Valley, N.Y.
4
present). 4. Kiev Drive, Columbus, Ga. (1964-81).
44. Shevchenko Avenue, Piscataway Township and 5. Kuropatnik Drive, Columbus, Ga. (1964-81). 4. Halich Street, South Plainfield (Nova Ukraina),
S o u t h Plainfield ( N o v a U k r a i n e ) , N.J. ( 1 9 2 7 - 6. Lviv Drive, Columbus, Ga. (1964-81). N.J. (1927-34).
present). 7. Shevchenko Drive, Columbus, Ga. (1964-81). 6. Leo Place, Piscataway Township (Nova U-
45. Shevchenko Drive, Amherst, N.Y. (circa 1968- kraina), N.J. (1927-35).
present). "Paper streets": undeveloped by planners 7. Lessenko Place, Piscataway Township (Nova
46. Shevchenko Place, Spring Valley, N.Y. (circa Ukraina), N.J. (1927-35).
1963 - present). 1. Dnieper Street, South Plainfield (Nova Ukraina), 8. Prut P l a c e , Piscataway T o w n s h i p ( N o v a
47. Skitka Avenue, Carteret, N.J. (1952 - present). N.J. (1927-34). Ukraina), N.J. (1927-35).
48. Skurkay A v e n u e , M o n e s s e n , Pa. (1925 - 1 Dniester Street, South Plainfield (Nova U- 9. Simon Street, South Plainfield (Nova Ukraina),
present). kraina), N.J. (1927-34). N.J. (1927-34).
49. Spoganetz Avenue, Carteret, N.J. (early 1950s - 3. Eugene Place, Piscataway Township (Nova 10. Ukraine Street, Desert H o t Springs, Calif.
present). Ukraina), N.J. (1927-35). (1950s - present).

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is sponsoring its DISTRICT COMMITTEE OF UNA BRANCHES
ANNUAL AUTUMN DANCE fc PRIZES OF PITTSBURGH AND WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA
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20,000 attend Rhode Island Heritage Festival

PROVIDENCE, R,I. - More than
20,000 people attended the fifth annual
Heritage Festival held on Sunday,
September 19,reportedthe Providence
Journal-Bulietin.
The festival, which included Ukrai­
nian cultural booths, Ukrainian food
and a dance presentation, was sponsored
by the Rhode Island Heritage Commission
and was held on the front lawn and mall
of the State House.
The Ukrainian subcommittee of the
Rhode Island Heritage Commission is
headed by Dimitri Sarachmon and
includesrepresentativesfrom all church
and various other Ukrainian organiza­
tions in Rhode Island.
They all contributed to the beautiful
displays of Ukrainian folk art and food
booths. Many helped sell the various
Ukrainian arts and crafts to curious
festival-goers.
Also included at this year's festival The Ukrainian American Youth Association Dancers perform for festival-goers.
was an exhibit of photos of prominent
Ukrainians. Polish, Native American Indian, British,
However, the highlight of the day was
the Ukrainian entertainment supplied
Latin American, Brazilian, Cape Ver-
dean, Italian, Indo-Chinese, Arab,
To err is human
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Association Dancers under the direc­ Lithuanian, Armenian, Greek, Chinese, Day weekend swim meet at Soyuzivka,
tion of John Baryski. The dance group's Filipino and black peoples. The 11 a.m. the name of the winner of the girls' (age
performance was filmed by a cable TV opening ceremony featured the Rhode 8-Ю) 25-meter freestyle, 25-meter butter­
station. Island Colonial Militia; entertainment fly and 4x2S-meter freestyle was in­ Little John A. Hicks, ton of Charles and
by the various ethnic groups was fea­ correctly given, in accordance with Virginia Woznik Hicks, is the newest
Labeled "an international experience," member of UNA Branch 292 in Detroit,
the festival also featured the foods, arts tured throughout the day, on the mall information received from the swim
before the State House on Smith Hill. meet committee, as Talia. Buzan. The His mother is the daughter of John and
and crafts and entertainment of the Wilma Woznik. His great-grandfather
winner's name is Puala Buzan.
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typified by the Army daily's (Narodna prison sentences are imposed for terms Charter TJ also issued a number of
The Madrid... Armiya) characterization of martial law ranging from one to five years or more other documents on subjects of extreme
(СоаНюи і tnm p p 7) as "the last resolute measure aimed at for crimes such as subversion, incite­ sensitivity to the authorities, including a
200 others "conditional leave,"a kind of stopping the process of destabilization." ment and parasitism. Although the lengthy document on the state of the
probation. However, neither Lech However, at the Ninth Bulgarian Trade number of trials and arrests in the last Charter 77 movement in its fifth year; a
Walesa nor the top leadership and Union Congress in April, the Bulgarian six months has not been as great as statement and study discussing the
advisers of Solidarity were among those leadership called for greater "socialist during the previous "reporting period, recent price increases and calling for
released. The Ministry of Interior democracy" in the trade-union move­ the'practice of isolated individual trials reform of the trade unions; and an open
cautioned that those released could be ment and criticized the unions for not of human-rights activists continues. letter to the writers' congress. The
reinterned if they did not take up "a being sufficiently sensitive to the needs As previously reported, in May 1981 statement on price increases and trade-
normal life." of the workers. at least 30 persons were arrested in a union reform was a particularly com­
The practice of summary internment crackdown against Charter 77, VONS pelling document which concluded that
did not end. Slightly more than 2,000 CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Czechoslo­ and the underground Literature and correcting the unfavorable state of the
union and human-rights activists re­ vak implementation of the final act Information Network. Eighteen per­ Czechoslovak economyrequireddemo­
mained confined in 25 detention centers remains fundamentally flawed, parti­ sons faced up to 10 years in prison on cratization of the economy and of
and prisons around the country on May cularly on Principle VII, human-rights charges of subversive ties with foreign society. It urged the authorities not to
I. Not affected by the release were those issues. Continuing Czechoslovak ner­ countries. By late October, seven of the regard "criticism of existing negative
serving prison sentences ranging from vousness, uncertainty and heightened persons arrested in May remained aspects as subversion" and charac­
two to 10 years for political offenses sensitivity bver events in Poland have confined although no trial had taken terized reformed trade unions as "the
after the imposition of martial law. caused a government normally suspi­ place. On March 22, journalist Karel natural basis for defending the econo­
The relaxation measures were merely cious of dissent and reform to become Kyncl, sociologist Jirina Siklova, Eva mic interests of citizens." In addition,
modest and partial actions which did even more intolerant. Kanturkova and Jan Ruml were re­ there have been many VONS bulletins
not seriously affect the major issues of There are two primary groups within leased from prison but the charges were which comment on and detail the arrest
releasing the still-interned Solidarity Czechoslovakia that concern them­ not dropped. Three others, Jiri Ruml, and detentions of various Czechoslovak
leadership and other political prisoners selves with humanrights.One is Charter Dr. Jan Mlynarek and Dr. Milan human-rights activists. In response,
and returning to a national dialogue. 77; the other is the Committee for the Simecka, were not released until May Czechoslovak authorities temporarily
Also, military discipline remained in Defense of the Unjustly Prosecuted 29. In a related development, for the detained and warned two of the three
major factories and coal mines. At the (VONS). Charter 77 is a movement of first time in recent memory Czechoslo­ Charter 77 spokesmen plus their families
same time, the military authorities intellectuals, workers and students vak President Husak pardoned a politi­ not to publish material on sensitive
warned that they would deal harshly which has been seeking to persuade the cal prisoner. Drahomira Sinoglova was topics. In addition, Ladislav Hejdanek
with "agitators" and stood ready to Czechoslovak government to abide by serving a one-year sentence for "incite­ and his family were detained and told to
"reimpose the rigors of martial law its own laws and international commit­ ment to rebellion" for publishing al­ disband the Jan Patochka seminars
should excesses and social unrest" ments regarding human and civil rights. legedly illegal material by contempo­ which frequently feature foreign guests
develop. The nature of this threat Charter 77 has issued several studies on rary Czechoslovak writers. The case of lecturers.
became evident a few days later when topics such as the standard of living, the Mrs. Sinoglova, a mother of three It should be noted that although
the authorities employed ZOMO and plight of pensioners, and the right to expecting her fourth child, aroused Czechoslovakia is a signatory to the
regular police forces ruthlessly through­ travel abroad. VONS concentrates on considerable world sympathy during CSCE Final Act, the Czechoslovak
out the country against those who abuses of the judicial system and uses her imprisonment. government has reacted strongly to
protested, at first peacefully, against public records and reports from friends Pressure also has continued on reli­ expressions of concern about human-
martial law in connection with activities and relatives of the accused to issue gious activists, another focus of human- rights violations in Czechoslovakia by
commemorating the Polish Constitu­ communiques on cases where it believes rights activity. Church-staterelationsin other governments or non-governmen­
tion on МаУ 3, 1791. By May 4, the the police, the courts or the prisons Czechoslovakia are widely thought to tal institutions. Czechoslovakia con­
rigors of martial law had returned. For have abused citizens' civil or human be the worst of all the East European tinues to place a heavy emphasis on the
example, the curfew was reimposed in rights. These communiques are distri­ countries. There are indications that the final act's principle of non-intervention.
Warsaw and elsewhere, telephone com­ buted to Czechoslovak authorities. authorities, ever fearful of events in It asserts that it is in full compliance with
munications disrupted, some public the final act andregardsoutside investi­
gatherings prohibited, and use of pri­ As a result of their activities, mem­ Poland, want to prevent the Catholic gation or comment as interference in its
vate vehicles banned. The authorities bers of both these groups have suffered. Church from developing any similar internal affairs. Since recent events in
announced on May 10 that 2,269 per­ considerable persecution, including loss capability to influence events in Cze­ Poland, however, the Czechoslovak
sons had been arrested for martial law of jobs, detention, loss of educational choslovakia. government has been in the forefront of
Freedom of religious belief and
violations since May 1 and admitted that opportunities for their children, impri­ freedom to practice religion theoreti­ those who have accused the United
over 1.300 of these had received sen­ sonment and harassment such as sus­ States and certain West European states
tences of up to three months in jail. pension of driving licenses and sur­ cally are guaranteed in the Czechoslo­ of violating this principle with regard to
Another 211 persons were interned. veillance. More significantly, the go­ vak Constitution. Nonetheless, the the actions taken in response to the
Thus, after months of martial law, the vernment has attempted to suppress authorities rigorously regulate religious imposition of martial law in Poland.
widespread violation of internationally dissident activity by periodically arrest­ activity. Those who stray beyond the
recognized human rights in Poland ing, trying and sentencing leading narrowly defined permissible bounda­
continued. The situation in Poland members of the movement to prison ries are subject to punishment. For With regard to Poland, the Czecho­
remained tense and uneasy as the terms on changes of anti-state activities. example, Jesuit Frantisek Lizna, who slovak government refuses to acknow­
authorities were unable to resolve the Many people active in Charter 77 have previously received a sentence of 20 ledge the existence of any major CSCE
country's political, economic and emigrated in the face of harassment by months in October on charges of ille­ violations in that country and has been
social problems. the authorities, and some have been gally publishing and distributing reli­ an enthusiastic supporter of the esta­
stripped of their citizenship. The police gious material, subsequently was given blishment of martial law and the conse­
BULGARIA: Bulgarian implemen­ frequently detain human-rights activists an additional seven months in March quent "normalization" process there. In
tation of the final act deteriorated for 48 hours before releasing them with for allegedly providing two visiting February the party daily Rude Pravo
somewhat during the reporting period, warnings. Harassment of individuals German priests "information about accused the Catholic Church in Poland
remaining spotty at best. The Bulgarian detained in such circumstances also churches" in Czechoslovakia. More of exerting considerable influence on
government administers a system in often includes attempts to persuade recently, in Slovakia, Father Gabriel Solidarity's transformation into "a
which the exercise of civil and political them to emigrate. Indeed, during the Povala was sentenced to eight months counterrevolutionary social move­
rights is severely restricted. The deve­ reporting period, dissident musician for allegedly trying to influence young ment."
lopment of organized and vocal dissent and Charter 77 signatory Karel Soukup people toward religious vocations. In commentary related to Poland, the
is firmly discouraged. and his family emigrated in March Father Jaroslav Duba, a Dominican, Charter 77 movement has circulated
received IS months' imprisonment in
There are indications that the Bul­ under threats of trial on "breach of Plzen in December 1981 for allegedly material which has urged the Czecho­
garian leadership is concerned over the peace" charges dating from 1976. Souk­ obstructing state supervision of reli­ slovak government to address major
possible impact of labor unrest in up previously served 10 months in gion, and Father Josef Barta was political and social problems in Cze­
Poland. Official Bulgarian reaction to 'prison for "hooliganism"(singing sentenced in Liberec to 18 months in choslovakia which the Charter move­
the imposition of martial law in Poland "unauthorized" songs). ment believes are analogous to those
was overwhelmingly supportive as Occasionally, trials are held and prison on the same charge on April 6. which led to the present situation in
Despite harassment, Charter 77 Poland. Charter 77 also issued a com­
spokesmen and others continue to mentary on events in Poland and a
Looking for a second income? monitor and comment on the govern­ statement on a day of solidarity with
ment's failure to implement the Final Poland. The authorities have refused to
Become Act. For example, on March 3, new
Charter 77 leaders Dr. Radim Palous,
acknowledge or to respond to these
allegations and in fact took certain
AN ORGANIZER Anna Marvanova and Ladislav Lis
addressed an appeal on religious free­
measures immediately following the
declaration of martial law in Poland
for Ukrainian National Association dom to the Czechoslovak government.
The document called on the authorities
whose clear intent was to prevent any
dissident commentary on those events.
FULL or PART TIME to adopt an II-point program on A number of leading Charter 77 and
You could start this career by organizing your family and friends. freedom of religion in accord with the VONS figures, including Vaclav Maly,
provisions of the CSCE Final Act on Jiri Hajek and Ladislav Lis, were
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Essays on Austrian...
(Continuedfrompafe 5)
work is particularly useful to those who
mistakenly view Ukrainian-Jewish
relations as an unbroken history of
Ukrainian anti-Semitism confronting
Jewish Ukrainophobia.
To be sure, both anti-Semitism and
Ukrainophobia existed (one is hard put
to name any country, including the
United States, which has no history of
anti-Semitism), but this is hardly the
whole story. As Dr. Everett, a former
Research Associate of both the YIVO
Institute for Jewish Studies and the
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute,
points out, it was a Ukrainian, Iuliian
Romanchuk, who was the first to
advocate Jewish national autonomy in
the Austrian Reichsrat,
She further notes that his courageous
action was followed by Ukrainian
speakers addressing Jewish political
meetings, Jews addressing Ukrainian
meetings, Jewish-Ukrainian electoral
cooperation, and cases where Ukrainian
academics and intellectuals assisted
Jews in defending themselves from
Polish-inspired violence at the elections.
This is a picture quite different from the
one-sided stereotypes so often en­
countered in the American media.
While the attempt was made to incor­
porate all three of the major national
groups which inhabited Galicia, the
bulk of the material deals with Ukrai­
nians. Prof. Peter Brock's study of Ivan
Vahylevych helps explain the early
fragmentation of the Ukrainian move­
ment into Russophile and Polonophile
orientations in addition to mainstream
Ukrainian patriotism. Prof. John-Paul
Himka's lively written essay on Ukrai-.
nian voluntary artisan associations
attempts to explain the fundamental
problem of the Ukrainian movement's
failure to develop a strong urban base.
Prof. Martha Bohachevsky-Cho-
miak's work on Natalia Kobrynska
deals with the fascinating and long-
neglected subject of Ukrainian femi­
nism. Leonid Rudnytzky traces the
changing image of Austria in the writ­
THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3,1982 15
ings of Ivan Franko. Prof. Paul
Magosci's contribution on the language Twenty-three participate in
question in eastern Galicia deals with
what evolved into one of the central
issues facing the Ukrainian movement
Choral Conductors Seminar
right up to World War I, and his second
contribution, 4 historiographical guide by Nadia H. Skop Catholic Church choirs of Edmonton,
to the history of Ukrainians in Galicia, made up the choir which sang for four
EDMONTON -Twenty-threechoir
will long be invaluable both to scholars hours daily in preparation for the final
in the field and to anyone else who conductors from all parts of Canada concert in which each participant was
might want to read up on some aspect of and the United States gathered once required to conduct a selected song
Ukrainian history. again at St. John's Institute here in from the repertoire.
Alberta from August 14 to 27 to partici­
pate in the seventh annual Ukrainian In observance of the 100th anniver­
The publication of such an outstand­ Choral Conductors Seminar, organized sary of his birth, special re­
ing collection is a major event in by the Ukrainian Music Society of cognition was given to Kyrylo
Ukrainian studies and an indispensible Alberta. Stetsenko, a leading figure in Ukrainian
addition to the library of anyone Though the topics change from year musical history, whose nationalism,
seriously interested in Ukrainian his­ to year, the purpose of the seminar is to humanitarianism and optimism are
tory. Those who wish to order a copy gain knowledge about, practice in, and reflected in his works, two of which
may do so by sending S9.50 to: Harvard appreciation for choral conducting and were part of this year's repertoire.
University, Ukrainian Studies Fund, Ukrainian musical culture in general.
1383 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, This seminar was by no means a two-
Mass. 02138. The faculty, headed by Volodymyr week summer holiday. The schedule
Kolesnyk of Toronto, was comprised of was intense,rigorousand often frustrat­
Zenoby Lawryshyn, composer, con­ ing as the participants tried to absorb
Yuriy Badzio... ductor and musicologist from Toronto, the incredible wealth of information
Maria Dytyniak, conductor of the being offered. Classes were held from 9
(Continuedfrompap 2) a.m. to 10 p.m. daily with breaks only
Dnipro Choir of Edmonton and a
2 of the Soviet Constitution states that principal organizer of the seminar for for meals (or more appropriately,
power in the USSR rests with the the past four years, and a new member, bountiful feasts, prepared by St. John's
people, and since all his writings support Irene Tchoryk, a young conductor from kitchen staff).
Article 2 and the supposition that Edmonton. Students were quick to learn that any
Soviet power lies with the people, then This year's main topic was intona­ outside preparation, practicing or
he cannot be guilty of anti-Soviet tion: how to arrive at the best sound, recreation would have to be done in the
agitprop. timbre and color in a choir. Included late hours of the night. The words "free
Mr. Badzio concluded his statement also were courses in church music, time" are not in Mr. Kolesnyk's color­
by declaring a hunger strike to mark the music theory, music appreciation, ful vocabulary and his untiring energy,
1
second anniversary of his arrest, and to principles in conducting skills, and drive and love for Ukrainian musical
protest the chauvinism of the CPSU. private lessons with Mr. Kolesnyk. The culture inspired the participants to keep
23 participants, in addition to members going, even when mental and physical
Ms; Kyrychenko has suffered be­ of the Dnipro and St. Basil's Ukrainian
exhaustion finally caught up with them.
cause of her husband's activities and her
efforts in his defense. She was expelled
from the Academy of Science of the
Ukrainian SSR in 1972.
In December 1980 she was ordered to
A Ukrainian perspective
serve a term of three months' forced
labor as the result of an administrative on the news...
sanction leveled against her during her
husband's trial a year before..
The Badzios have two children, a 19-
year-old son and a 12-year-old daughter.
Mr. Badzio is not scheduled to be
released until 1991.

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Monday, October 4
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y.: The Sko-
morokhy Dancers will begin registra­
tion for instruction in Ukrainian
dancing today. Registration for new
students from age 5 through 13
will take place at 7 p.m. in St.
Vladimir's Parish Center, 226 Union-
dale Ave. Registration for the older
age group (age 14 and up) will be held
at 8 p.m.
Roma Pryma Bohachevsky, a
renowned Ukrainian dancer and
choreographer will instruct the
classes; she has been with the Sko-
morokhy dancers for three years. For
more information, please call Ella
Kopyscianski (S16) 486-1710 or
Darka Mociuk (914) 793-4907.
Weekend of October 8
WILKES-BARRE, Рал The 44th
annual convention of the League of
Ukrainian Catholics of America will
be held here at the Sheraton Cross-
gates Hotel.
During the three-day convention,
which will be hosted by the North
Anthracite Council of the league, the
annual Ukrainian Layperson of the
Year award will be presented to a
dedicated individual, chosen by a
committee.
NEWARK, NJ.: St John's Ukrai­
nian Catholic Social Series here will
sponsor a trip the week of October 8-
14 to the World's Fair in Knoxville,
Tenn.
The bus leaves St. John's Ukrai­
nian Catholic Church on Friday,
October 8, and will travel via, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and
Virginia, stopping in Roanoke, Va.,
for the night.
The next day it continues on to
Nashville, Tenn., to hear the Music
City Jubilee. On Sunday, there is a
three-hour tour of Nashville, Fort
Nashboro, Premiss Alley and the
homes of famous Opryland stars.
The next stop on the tour is the
World's Fair, where the group will
stay for two days.
On the return trip, included is a
tour of Richmond, Va., and Wash­
ington before heading for home. All
interested should call Michael Gienga
as soon as possible at: (201) 372-
6662.
Saturday, October 9
NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Insti­
tute of America will present the first
fall lecture of the Harvard Ukrainian
Research Institute series. "The Origin
of the Slavs" will be delivered by
Prof. Omeljan Pritsak, at the UIA, 2
E. 79th St., at 5 p.m.
IRVINGTON, NJ.: Starshi plas-
tunky, "Chortopolokhy" are spon­
soring a dance at the Ukrainian
National Home, 140 Prospect St.
from 9 p.m. -1:30 a.m. Happy hour is
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THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOJP 3,1982
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ball will start at 9 p.m. with music
PREVIEW OF EVENTS provided by H. Zarycky's Halychany
orchestra. Tickets are S25 per couple,
from 9-10 p.m. 'Veselka ' orchestra tion today, at 2:30 p.m. on the south
will provide music for dancing. SI5 per person. For more informa­
stage. The festival, held at World tion, call the league at (313) 894-
Admission is S7. War II Memorial Park, features a
9334.
variety of foods, crafts and enter-.
Saturday, October 9 tainment. There is no admission charge Sunday, October 24
to the three-day festival, and the
HARTFORD, Conn.: The theatrical public is invited. ELMIRA HEIGHTS, N.Y.: The
ensemble "Tiazhko na Emihratsiyi," young adults of St. Nicholas parish
under the auspices of the M. Pav- BRIDGEPORT, Com.: The Ukrai­ here are sponsoring a winery tour.
lushko SUM-A branch in Chicago, nian Women's League of Bridgeport The day's schedule includes a 10:30
will present a revue titled "Inflation.''
is sponsoring a kaleidoscope of a.m. divine liturgy celebrated at
The evening of humor and satire will Ukrainian dance and fashion at 3:30 Christ the King Ukrainian Catholic
be held at the South Catholic High p.m. at Sacred Heart University, Church in Bath, N.Y. At 11:30 a.m.
School, 21S South St., at 7 p.m. 5529 Park Ave. (off of Merritt Park­ brunch win be served in the church
Tickets may be purchased for S5 at way, Exit 47 South, or 1-95, Exit 27 hall and at 12:30 p.m. everyone will
Arka and Surma in New York. For North). The Voloshky Dance En­ leave for a tour of the Gold Seal
more information, call (914) 969- semble from Philadelphia will per­ Winery. The tour and wine-tasting
7486. form Ukrainian dances. During begin at 1 p.m. At 4 p.m. the group
intermissions, authenic Ukrainian will leave for Elmira Heights, N.Y.
regional dress will be modeled for the (about 35 miles), where at 5 p.m. there
ABINGTON, Pa.: The Ukrainian audience. For more information, call will be a pizza party, films and
Savings and Loan Association in (203) 336-1332, or (203) 878-8856. socializing at the St. Nicholas Ukrai­
Philadelphia and Janney Montgo­ Tickets are available at the door. nian Catholic Church hall.
mery Scott Inc. are co-sponsoring For the convenience of the winery,
Saturday Financial Seminars at 1:30 the organizers of the tour need a
p.m. at the Ukrainian Educational Saturday, October 16 count of people going on the tour by
Cultural Center, 700 Cedar Road.
October 15. Please notify the rectory
The English-language seminars NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Insti­ by dropping a postcard to the St.
began on Saturday, October 2, and tute of America will present the Nicholas Rectory, 410 McCanns
will also be held on October 23 and opening of the Ukrainian Photo­ Boulevard, Elmira Heights, N.Y.
November 6 and 13. The subject of graphers' Association exhibition at 6 14903.
today's lecture will be a discussion on p.m. Featured will be photographs
how financial planning can help you by many Ukrainian artists including
attain your financial goals. The Alexander Suchenko. The institute is
speaker will be Andrew Palashew- located at 2 E. 79th St., (212) 288- Saturday, October 30
sky. 8660. CULVER CITY, CaHf.: West Los
Angeles College, 4800 Freshman
Sunday, October 17 Drive, is featuring a one-day (9 a.m.-
Sunday, October 10 5 p.m.) course on Ukrainian egg-
NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Insti­ dyeing. Course registration is S20.
NEWARK, NJ.: The New Jersey tute of America will hold its official The instructor is Cathleen Handlin;
Regional Council of the Ukrainian
opening of the fall season, today at 4 she will teach students the fine art of
National Women's League of Ame­ p.m. The day will include a special pysanka making. No previous art
rica is sponsoring a UNWLA Day
program with various guest perfor­ training is necessary. For more
from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at St John the mers. The institute is located at 2 E. information call the college registra­
Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church
79th St., (212) 288-8660. tion office at (213) 559-7993.
hail. The day's program includes a
lecture by Di\ Bohdan Cymbalisty at
WASHINGTON: The Ukrainian Sunday, October 31
1:15 p.m., fine art and crafts exhibits, Women's League is sponsoring a
a book sale, baked goods sale and a
children's masquerade at the Holy NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Insti­
raffle. Family Center, 4250 Harewood
tute of America/ Ukrainian National
Road, N.E., at 2:30 p.m. The emcee Association Performing Artists
YONKERS, N.Y.: The theatrical of the event will be Martha Bazarko. Group will present the first in a series
ensemble "Tiazhko na Emihratsiyi "' of concerts for the fall season. "An
will present a revue titled "Inflation" Afternoon of Classics" will be held
at the. SUM-A Home, 301 Palisades Saturday, October 23 today at 3 p.m. at the Ukrainian
Ave. Tickets may be purchased at Institute of America, 2 E. 79th St.
Arka and Surma in New York. For WASHINGTON: The Ukrainian The program includes performances
further information, call (914) 969- Women's League is sponsoring an art by three outstanding artists: Laryssa
7486. exhibit, featuring the works of Krupa, pianist, Stefka Nazarkewycz,
Bohdan Borzemsky at the Holy actress, and Laryssa Magun-Huryn,
Family Center, 4250 Harewood Road, soprano.
BOSTON: A concert of dances and N.E. The opening is tonight at 7:30
songs of Ukraine will highlight the p.m.; on Sunday, October 24, the
30th anniversary celebration of the
Ukrainian American Youth Associa­
exhibit will be open from 1 to 3 p.m.
The public is cordially invited to
Patriarch's pastoral...
tion (SUM-A) of Greater Boston, 2 attend. (Continoed from page 1)
p.m. at West Roxbury High School, of your homeland and the fulfillment of
1205 VFW Parkway. your responsibilities toward it. In order
The Ukrainian American Youth MAPLEWOOD, N J.: The Womenfc to love your homeland, you must
Association's ensemble, which has 40 Club of Holy Ascension Ukrainian recognize the beauty of the language,
young dancers and singers, is direct­ Orthodox Church will sponsor a the history of the land and its people;
ed by John Baryski. The anniversary Chinese Auction at 6:30 p.m. in the then your love becomes an offering. The
program will feature a variety of parish hall at 652 Irvington Ave. offering of such a love resulted in the
Ukrainian folk dances ranging from There will be door prizes, gifts, formation of the Ukrainian Insurgent
the Kozak Sword Dance to the raffles and arts and crafts. Dessert Army, which became a living strong­
Hopak. Ticket sales will benefit the and coffee will be served. Tickets hold, a true symbol and a burning
association, a non-profit organiza­ must be purchased in advance by banner for future generations."
tion. Prices in advance tickets are: S5 calling Anna Chudzey, club presi­ Observing that "although each war is
for adults, ІЗ for youth. At the door, dent at (201) 789-2346. Proceeds will so inhumane," Patriarch Josyf states
the charge is S7 for adults and SS for be used for the church building fund. that any nation that respects itself and
youth. Further concert information Vespers will be offered in church at its identity, its sense of belonging to a
may be obtained by calling Michael 5:30 p.m. people, has not only the right, but the
Nosal at (617) 668-7808. responsibility to defend the noblest
DETROIT: The Ukrainian Michi­ qualities of its people, the qualities of
gan League will bold its 50th anniver­ liberty, fairness, national independence,
WOONSOCKET, R.I.: The Odessa sary banquet and ball at the Ukrai­ freedom to express belief in God, have
Ukrainian Dancers of Rhode Island, nian National Temple. The keynote its own Church and express its wish for
sponsored by St. Michael's Ukrai­ address will be delivered by commu­ God's peace around the world. It must
nian Orthodox Church, will perform nity activist Dr. Mary Beck. The do everything in its power to pave the
at the annual Autumnfest celebra- banquet will begin at 7 p.m.; and the way for God's commandments to be
established in its land."