The Ukrainian Weekly 1980-14

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( A ! SV O B O D A At ^ ^ U k r a i n i a n W e e k lN G L I S H - L A N G U A G E W E E K L Y E D I T I O N VV O L . I J C X X V I I . N o . SO T H E U K R A I N I A N W E E K L Y S U N D A Y . A P R I L 6 . 1980 25 CENTS

Khrystos Voskres Christ Is Risen

Symbol of rebirthO nce upo n a t ime a poor peddler went to the marketto sel l a basket of eggs. He cameupon a crowd, jeering a man who staggeredwi th a heavy, wooden cross on which he was about tobe cruci f ied. The peddler ran to his aid,leaving the basket by the roadside. Whenhe returne d, foe fou nd the eggs transformedinto intr icately designed, bright ly colored pysanky.The man was Jesus Chris t and the peddler, Simon.

And the pysanky became the symbol ofrebi rth for al l mankind.U K R A I N I A N FO L K T A L E

To all our readers we extendour sincerest best wishes on theoccasion o f I he Easter feast.Khrystos Voskres!

S o v ie t a u t h o r itie s a r re s t M a tu s e v y c h T h o u s a n d s a t t e n dJERSEY CITY . N.J. - Olha HeykoMatusevych. a member of the Kiev-based Ukra in i an Pub l ic Gro up toPromote the Implementation of theHelsinki Accords, was arrested lastmonth after a search of her apartment,dissident sources in Moscow told Reuters on April 2.They said Mrs. Matusevych wasdetained on March 12, but it is notknown where she was being held. Theofficial w ho led the search said shewould be charged with anti-So vietslander which car r ie s a max imumsentence of three years in jail. Reuters

reported.Mrs. Matusevych. a philologist bornin 1953. is the wife of Mykola Matusevych. a Kiev group member who wassentence d in Ma rch 1978 along withfel low Helsinki mon' tor MyroslavMarynovych to 12 years of imprisonment and internal exile on the charge ofanti-Soviet activity.In October 1977, severaj mon ths afterthe arrests of her husband and Marynovych, Mrs. Matusevych w rote a letter tothe. Supreme Soviets of the Ukrainian

SSR and the U SSR in which she revealed the investigations, interrogations,insults, harassment, surveillance andbodily searches she and her family hadbeen subjected to by the KGB." L a c k e y s of the KGB! You haveboundless authority. The new constitution has completely untied your hands.You have taken away from me myhusband, my parents; for all practicalpurposes you have left me withoutliving quarters; you canfireme from myjob and not give me the opportunity tosettle down somewhere else, therebycompletely denying me the basis for anexistence; you can even arrest me andincarcerate me in a psychiatric hospital- I am not afraid of this. I will notrenounce my husband whom I dearlylove, an d I will not betray Myroslav(Marynovych), whom 1 love as my ownbrother: 1 will not cease standing up intheir defense," she asserted in the letter.

Soon after the trial of Matusevychand Marynovych had concluded, Mrs.Matusevych, who was the youngestmember of the Ukrainian Helsinkiiiroup. withdrew from membership in` , Y (C i i i i i i i i t i r i l i 4 i I . ' l

Bishop Gabro 's fun era lCHICAGO, 111. - Som e 2,000 faithful, led by Archbishop-MetropolitanMyroslav Ivan Lubachiwsky, coadjutorof Patriarch Josyf I, paid their Finalrespects to the Bishop Jaroslaw Gabroof the St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic 'Eparchy, who died on Friday, March28, after a serious illness. He was 60years old.. Concelebrating the D ivine Liturgyand the Requiem at St. Nicholas Cathedral here Tuesday, April 1, with Archbi

shop Lubachivsky were Archbishop-Metropolitan Maxim Hermaniuk ofCanada and Archbishop-MetropolitanStephen J. Kocisko of the Byzantine`Ruthenian Rite Eparchy of Pittsburgh.Also present were C a r d i n a l J o h nPatrick Cody, Roman Catholic archbishop of Chicago, B ishop Basil Losten ofStamford, Bishop Neil Savaryn andAuxiliary Bishop Demetrius Greschukof Edmonton, Bishop Isidore Boreckyof Toronto, Bishop Andrew Roboreckiof Saskato on, B ishop Michael J. Du-l ( . . i n . i , m i l , , i t , . I f . ) Bishop Jaroslav Cabro


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Kiev group appea ls to col leagues in de fense of Ukra inian r ights act iv ists" H ELS INKI. Finland. - Members ofthe Ukrainian Public Group to Pro-mole the Implementation of the Helsinki A ccords appealed in an O ctober 6.1979. document to the Helsinki monitoring groups in the Soviet Union andthe United States and to the humanrigft"ts groups in Poland and - Slovakia, urging them: "raise your

. vpices in defense of Ukrainian defenders of rights."` - The appeal w as signed by OksanaMeshko, Nina Strokata. Iryna Senyk.Ivan Kandyba. V italiy Kalynychenko.V asyl S triltsiv, Vasyl S tus, V olodymyrMalynkovych. V yachaslav. Chornoviland the Rev. Vasyl Romaniuk. It is oneof the First documents of the Kiev groupwhich is signed by its newest members(Senyk. Stus, Chomovil. Romaniuk).The full text of the document inEnglish translation was released by the"S moloskyp" Information Service andis reprinted below. (Ellipses indicatepassages which were illegible in theoriginal copy.)We ask you to turn serious attention

to the ever-intensifying atmosphere ofterror in which the participants of theUkrainian movement in defense ofrights find themselves. As is known,Ukrainians form a majority amongthose who are repressed in the USSR.Members of the Ukrainian Helsinkigroup have been sentenced to manyyears of bondage of martyrs: the well-known writer Mykola Rudenko(founder and leader of the group).

pedagogue and professor OleksaTykhy. lawyer and publicist l.cvkoLukianenko. pedagogue-historian Mykola Matusevych. engineer MyroslavMarynovych. In 1979 the followingwere the victims of repression:O n July 5. Petro Sichk o. a member ofthe group and formerly a prisoner ofStalinist camps, was arrested. Twenty-three-year-old Vasyl Sichko. a memberof the group, was sent to a psychiatrichospital for examination; in 40 days hewas transferred to a KGB prison. B oth.,father and son. are charged with"spreading slanderous fabricationswhich discredit the Soviet state andsocial order." for their appearances atthe grave of the young poet and composer Volodymyr Ivasiuk. who diedunder suspicious circumstances.(A ccording to the official version.Ivansiuk had hanged himself.)O n A ugust 6. Yuriy Lytvyn, a poetand member of the group, was arrested.This is his fourth arrest on ideologicalgrounds: from I9S1 to 1977 he wasimprisoned for IS years. Two weeksbefore the most recent arrest Lytvynwas taken, completely sober, to adrying-out tank where, having boundhim to a bed. they beat him up; they beathim on the stomach...unhealed scarsfrom a recent operation (a stomachulcer.. .a hernia). A lthough Lytvynoffered no resistance, a case was initiated on a charge of "resisting the police."Vasyl O vsienko. a philologist andpedagogue who was released in 1977

after four .wars of imprisonment (hehad been charged with "anti-Sovietagitation and propaganda"), was sentenced in February of this year to threeyears of strict-regime camps under atrumped-up charge of "resisting thepolice."On March 6. the well-known writerO les B erdnyk. founding member andthe leader of the group, was arrested...Frequent searches were conducted inKiev and other cities. Berdnyk wascharged with "anti-Soviet agitation andpropaganda." At this time he remains inprison under investigation, in completeisolation. This is the second arrest forBerdnyk: he had been imprisoned forfive years and wa s rehabilitated in 1955.Mykhailo Melnyk. historian, pedagogue, had been persecuted in recentyears... (particularly, he was deprived ofthe opportunity to work in the field ofhis specializatio n and worked as aguard): he committed suicide after asearch on March 6-7 . which was accom panied by the threat of further, moresevere repressions.

On April 23. Yuriy Badzio wasarrested for the second time this year.D uring the search a handwritten copyof his major historiographic work " TheRight to Live" was confiscated...charges of "anti-Soviet agitation andpropaganda."By means of unrestricted searchesthey take away all unofficial information (notes in one form or another),personal literary creations, personal

correspondence and also uncensorcdliterature, samvydav and literaturepublished outside the borders of theUSSR. They systematically cut offcontacts, opportunities for meetings,direct commun ication and. not infrequently, also correspondence amongdefenders of rights, among people whoarc suspected of dissent, their relativesand friends. A long with this they exhibitan arrogant disregard for human rightsand human dignity.Here is one of many examples. InA pril of this year, during a search of theliving quarters of group member NinaStrokata. she and O ksana Meshko. whowas there, were subjected also to apersonal search - just as in prisonstripped naked, the seams in theirclothing inspected inch-by-inch etc. (Inthe city of Tarusa. Kaluga Region.Strokata lives under administrativesurveillance, deprived of the right totravel outside the boundaries of Tarusa.and from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. does not havethe right to leave her living quarters...tounwarranted raids by the police).The authorities attempt to discreditdefenders of rights , taking every advantage of disinformation and slander.And so they spread rumorsabout groupmember Meshko. that she keeps....trades in valuables, engages in currencytransactions.V olodymyr M alynkovych (radiologist), soon after he became a memberof the group, was beaten on the street

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Arrests of Christians in USSR continuesBelow is the text of an appeal on behalf of Christians in the USSR, written anddistributed hy Pastor Georgi Vins in February. Pastor Vins, a former political

prisoner, has been l iving in America since April 1979 when he. Valentyn :.Mark Dymshyts. Exivard Kuznetsov and Aleksamlr Ginzburg were exchanged bythe Soviet governme nt for two Soviet spies in the United States."Remem ber them that are in bonds, as hound withthem..." Hebren-s 13:3.

D ear brothers and sisters in Christ!On behalf of the persecuted Christians in the Soviet Union. 1 greet you and callyou to prayerful unity with all those who are persecuted for their faith in God in theUSSR. I want to inform you of new facts concerning the increased religiouspersecution in 1980 in the USSR.D eath in Tabaga labor camp.O n January 27 . in Tabaga. a strict regime labor camp located 26 kilometers(16.12 miles) from Yakutsk. Vladimir Shelkov died. Shelkov was the leader of theUnion of Seventh D ay A dventists. and had spent 23 years of his life in labor camps.Camp Tabaga is located in an area similar to the regions of the far north. In thewinter temperatures drop to -6 4 C. The 84-year-old Shelkov was from Tashkent, asouthern city, and was sent specifically t o a camp in the north with the objective ofphysical annihilation.I am well acquainted with the conditions in this camp, having spent the last fouryears of my imprisonment there. The camp is specially controlled by organs of theKGB and the camp administration is experienced in the battle with religiousactivists in conditions of imprisonment.Tt-e director of Camp Tabaga is Major Trofimov. The director of operations(KGB ) :s Captain Pinchuk. The camp address is: Yakutskaya A S S R. g. Yakutsk,pos. Tabaga. p ya Ya D - 40 7.In providing the address I want to direct the attention o f Christians throughoutthe world to this camp of death, which is becoming a traditional place of Christianbondage in the USSR.The arrest of staff workers of The Christian publishing house in Ukraine.A group of workers at the publishing house The Christian was arrested onJanuary 19 in Ukraine: Serhiy Bubryk. age 23: Liubov Kosachcvich, age 28:Tamara B uistrova. age 31: and Galina Yudintseva. age 32.They were arrested while at work at 8 a.m. in the village of Stari .D nipropetrovske oblast. 4 Chlakov S i.

D ue to the great tack of spiritual literature. Evangelical Christian- ! ists in theUS S R organized the The Christian publishing house which was forced to printillegally bibles, copies of the New Testament and other Christian literature. D uringthe past 10 years the publishing bouse printed about 500.000 religious boo ks inmany ethnic languages of the Soviet Union.The Christian publications are circulated among the people of the USSR andespecially am ong Christians of various denominations: Baptists. Orthodox.Catho lics, Lutherans. Pentacostals. Adven tists and others. The organs o f the KGBare cruelly persecuting the staff of the The Christian publishing house.Intensification of persecution of the Union of Churches of Evangelical Ch ristian-Baptists (I CECB).O n January 28 , M ikhail Khorev. age 49 . was arrested in Leningrad. PastorKhorev is tne minister of the church in Kishinev. Moldavia, and a member of theUCECB in the Soviet Union.

S ince 1961 the KGB has been continuously and severely persecuting thc'UCECBfor its faithful service to God . The U CECB stands for complete separation olchurch and state, absolute freedom of conscience, the absolute authority of theBible in all questions of life and faith, and the widespread preaching of the Gospelto all peoples of the USSR.Mikhail Khorev was arrested for the third time. He has served five and one halfyears in prisons and camps for his faith in God.O n January 19. M ykola K abysh. age 52 was arrested during a church service inthe D nipropetrovske ob last of Ukraine. Kabysh is a candidate for membership inthe CUECB.B esides Khorev and Kabysh. the following members of the UCECB are now inprisons and camps: I . Ya. A ntonov, N.G. B aturin. Ya. G. S korniakov.P.T.Rytykiv.O n January 13. KGB organs in Estonia raided the house of UCECB memberD mitri V asilievich Minyako. intending to arrest him. M inyakov managed to hidehimself. A s a result. Minyakov must now carry out his ministry in an illegalsituation similar to that of Gennadi Kryuchkov. president of the UCECB.O n January 19. in the Ukrianian village Krupskc. Pastor Konstantyn S mirskywas arrested.In January 1980 there were mass house searches in believers' homes inLeningrad. Novosibirsk and Kishinev with the objective of confiscating religiousliterature.In spite of increased persecution. Christians in the USSR continue their sell-sacrificing service to Go d. A s the Word of says: "No weapon that is formedagainst, thee shall prosper." Isaiah 54:17.D ear brothers and sisters in Christ, pray lor the work of the Gospel in the SovietUnion , for the persecuted staff o f The Christian publishing house, for servants ofthe UC ECB . and for all Christians in the US SR who are being persecuted lor faithin God!

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Plyushch: Make us e o f "rea l powers" t o a id UkraineJERS EY CITY. N.J. Leonid Plyushch. a formerpolitical prisoner and now a member of the ExternalRepresentation of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group,stressed tha t Ukrainians in the West must m ake use ofthe "real powers" in the world in their struggle toobtain human and national rights for Ukraine and itspeople.Among these powers are governments, universities,the intelligentsia, professionals and the media, he said

during a visit to the Svoboda editorial offices andUNA Main Office here on Monday, March 24.Later that day . M r. Plyushch participated in a paneldiscussion about the November 1980 Madrid Co n-.ference which is to review signatories' implementationof the Helsinki Accords provisions. The otherparticipants of the panel, held at the UkrainianNaitonal Home in New York City, were Gen. PetroGrigorenko. Nina Strokata-Karavansky and NadiaSvitlychna.In the struggle against Soviet totalitarianism. Mr.Plyushch said, the nations enslaved by the USSR,including Ukrainians, should be flexible enough andready to use those forms of political activity which at agiven time are the most effective and expedient.He added that in no case should mass actions,

demons t ra t ions , man i fes ta t ions and the l ike berejected as vehicles in this struggle, because they notonly show broad-based involvement of the Ukrainiancommunity in the liberation movement, but also

strengthen the liberation processes in Ukraine itselfand reveal the lies disseminated by the Soviet regime.On the other hand. Mr. Plyushch noted, "behind-the-scenes" political and diplomatic contacts with theworld, preparation of explanatory materials, generalact ivi ty aimed at increasing the world public ' sawareness of Ukraine's plight, contacts and influenceon the information media and scholarly institutionsare extremely important and irreplacable. We shoulduse these vehicles much more and much better, on ahigher level, than we do now, he said.In response to a question about whether a trueUkrainian state could exist in any form of federationor commonwealth with Russia. Mr. Plyushch repliedthat a true and long-lasting Ukrainian state is possibleonly in com plete, uncond itional sepa ration fromRussia.And for this to be possible, taking into account thesize and strength of the R ussian n ation, as well as theGerman factor, he explained, close ties, a politicalunion and economic cooperation are needed amongthe countries which are neighbors of these two giants.Ukraine. C/echo-Slovakia, Poland. Rumania, theBaltic nations and others cannot forget that powermust be countered by power, he emphasized.Mr. Plyushch said that the main goal of his activity

among European socialist and liberal circles is to makethem understand that "bolshevism. as such, andLenin, as such, are only a socialistic mask for a muchdeeper process of totalitarianism." Leonid Plyushch

Archbishop Bukatko resignsVAT ICAN . CITY. - ArchbishopGabriel Bukatko announced his resignation from the post of archepa rch ofBelgrade. Yugoslavia, that is. leader ofUkrainian Catholics in that country,according to the March \`\ issuerlof"L'Osservatore Romano."-fhe officialpublication of the Vatican:Pope John Paul II accepted thearchbishop's resignation and appointed

Msgr. AloysiusTurk o, a-member of theBelgrade archdiocese, to replace him.Reasons for Archbishop Bukatko'sresignation were not cited in the newspaper story, but it is known that theprelate has been seriously ill for quitesome time.The decree which establishes therights and duties of bishops of theCatholic Church, provides that bishopsmay resign from their duties afterreaching the age of 75, or due to illnessor other serious reasons. The "L'O sservatore Romano" storv noted that

W C F U of ficers m eet wi th e xi led dissidents

Archbishop Gabriel BukatkoArchbishop Bukatko had resigned inaccordance with this decree.

NEW YORK , N.Y. - Members ofthe Presidium of the World Congress ofFree Ukrainians' Secretariat met withfour exiled Ukrainian dissidents at theUkra in ian Ins t i tu te o f Amer ica onMarch 23 to discuss future actions indefense of huma n, national and religious rights in Ukraine.The WCFU was represented by My-kola Plawiuk, president; Archbishop-Metropolitan Mstyslav Skrypnyk, IvanBazarko , execu t ive v ice p res iden t ;Msgr. Myroslav Charyna, OleksandraKowalsky, Prof. Bohdan Hnatiuk, Dr.Roman Tratch and Dr. Walter Dush-n y c k , m e m b e r o f t h e I n f o r m a t i o nCommission.The three dissiden ts, who representedthe Ex te rna l Represen ta t ion o f theUkrainian Helsinki Group, were PetroGrigorenko, its head, Leonid Plyushch,and Nina Stro kata. Nadia Svitlychnawas invited to participate as a memberof the group in Ukraine.

UC G p r e s id ium , a u d it in g boa r d m e e tWIN NIPEG , Man. - The presidiumand the auditing board of the UkrainianCanadian Committee held their annualplenary meetings on Sunday, March 17,with 27 persons present.A detai led w ri t ten repo rt of theactivity of the UCC during 1979 wasprepa red by`"l)r. Simon .larosla\ Kalba.and A.I. Yaremovych, chairman of theHuman Rights Commission, reportedon the organization's actions in defenseof Ukrainian political prisoners, notably Yuriy Shukhevych.O. Slyvynsky reported on the fund-raising campaign for the Social ServiceFund of Ukrainian. Canadians "Po-

mich Ukrayini." He said that during1979 522,791.04 was raised by the socialservice 's branches in Toronto, St .Catharines. Thunder Bay. Montrealand Winnipeg. Mr. Slyvynsky reportedtha t S I3 .0 I2 .3 I was d i s t r ibu ted toUkrainian dissidents and refugees in theWest.He added that the money raised bythe Edmonton branch of the socialservice was not counted in the totalbecause that branch is not part of thenational network.

Participants of the annual meeting of the UCC presidium and auditing committee,seated, left to right, are A.I. Yaremovych; I. Ivanchuk, A. Bann, chairman of theauditing committee; H. Kohusky, Serge Radchuk, president of the UCC; V.Buchynsky, Dr. P.A. Kondra, L. Fil, and A . Kachor; standing, left to right, are M.Lekhiv, P. Bashuk, Dr. I.Simon Jaroslav Kalba, I. Onufriychuk, O.Slyvynsky, M.Kohut, Dr. Borislaw Bilash, S. Kachor, M. Minenko, I. Novosad, Y. Hvozdulych,Dr. I. Hlynka, Dr. L. Melosky, R. Savedchuk. O. Hay-Holovko, P . Danyliuk andDr. R. Romanovvch.Dr. B orislaw Bilash reported on threeprojects undertaken in 1979: two issuesof the Ukrainian Teacher in Canada

were published, Ukrainian languagecourses in grades 7-9 of Canadian

After an exchange of ideas on thesituation in Ukraine and the arrests ofkey members of the Ukrainian PublicGroup to Promote the Implementationof the Helsinki Accords, the participants adopted the following points:1. The Ukrainian Helsinki group,formed in 1976 with Mykola Rudenkoas head, initiated a major campaign indefense of all national rights of theUkrainian people and it found supportfor its activities from Ukrainians inUkraine, publicity in the West as well assupport from Ukrainians in the West.2. The external representation of thegroup, consisting of P. Grigorenko, L.P lyushch and N . S t roka ta , has themandate to represent and defend theinterests of the group at internationalforums.3. The WCFU, in accordance withthe resolutions of the Third WCFU,supports the External Representationof the Ukrainian Helsinki Group in therealization of its mandate.4. The preparation of the Western,representation for the Madrid. Confer

ence and its proposal for participationin the conference should be lookedupon as a valuable initiative, whichdeserves the support of all Ukrainians inthe free world.5. The WCFU Human Rights Commission, on behalf of the Ukrainiancommunity in the free world, is preparing for the participants of the MadridConfe rence a majo r do cumen ta t ionabout the enslavement of Ukraine.6. In accordance with the appeal ofUkrainian national liberation movement to the WCFU, the Presidium ofthe Secretariat of the World Congresshas planned a major internat ionalaction aimed at the secession of theUkrainian SSR from the USSR.7. It has been observed that amongthe signatures on the first document ofthe Ukrainian National LiberationMove ment, there are names of membersof the Ukrainian Helsinki group and theUkrainian Nation al Liberation Movement.8. The External Representation ofthe Ukrainian Helsinki Group supportsthe efforts of the W CFU for the decolonization of the USSR and the separa7( ( nn i inurd on page 15) . , i


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U N A d i s t r i c t commi t tee mee ts Kulas meets Brzezinski,discuss plight of dissidentsSham o kin, Pa,

ASH LA ND, Pa. - Tymko Butreywas re-elected chairman of the Sh amokin UNA District Comm ittee during itsannual meeting here Sunday, March 23.Also elected were: Joseph Chabanand Marguerite Hentosh, vice chairmen; Helen Slovik, secretary; AdolphSlovik, treasurer; Joseph Sydor, chairman of the auditing committee; andMichael Chomyn and Danylo Treshko,auditing committee members.The meeting was opened with aprayer recited by long-time UNA`erPetro Geley and a moment of silence inhonor of deceased UNA'ers DmytroKapitula, a former Supreme President,and Michael Hentosh, a long-timechairman of the district.Mr. Butrey also called on the participants of the meeting to honor theAmericans being held hostage in Iran,among them a Ukrainian, Michael

Metrinko.The annual meeting was conductedby a presidium consisting of Mr. Butrey, chairman, and Mrs. Slovik , secretary.After greeting all persons in attendance, including Supreme O rganizerWasyl O richowsky, who representedthe Supreme Executive Committee atthe meeting, Mr. Butrey delivered hisreport. He noted that as chairman of theShamokin District Committee he hadparticipated in all UNA events and inmeetings of district chairmen and thathe had enrolled new members intoSoyuz.Mrs. Slovik then read the minutes of

the previous annual meeting, and Mr.Slovik submitted a financial report.A brief discussion followed the presentation of reports and. upon itsconclusion, Mr. Chomyn, auditingcommittee chairman, proposed that avote of confidence be given to theoutgoing executive board. This wasunanimously approved.Mr. Butrey then asked Mr. O richowsky to address the gathering. In hisremarks, the Supreme Organizertouched upon many UNA and community matters. He focused on Soyuz's

Tymko Butreyorganizing activity, noting that theShamokin District had surpassed itsquota by 6 percent. In recognition ofthis achievement he presented a plaqueto the district chairman.Mr. O richowsky also honored thefollowing UNA'ers who had becomemembers of the UNA Champions Clubby presenting them with gold stars: Mr.Butrey, who had organized 37 membersin 1979; and Mr. Chaban. secretary ofBranch 242 - 31 members.He also thanked the following secretaries who had organized members lastyear: Mrs. Slovik, Branch 7 1 4members; Mrs. Hentosh, Branch 305 -10; Mr. Chomyn, founder of Branch389 - 14. Mr. O richowsky expressedthanks to John Petruncio. Branch 78secretary who was not present at themeeting, for enrolling nine new members although he was in poor health.In conclusion, Mr. O richowskycalled on all present to intensify theirwork for the good of the UNA and the,entire Ukrainian community.After elections of a new executiveboard were completed, a discussiontook place. The meeting was adjournedwith a prayer and the singing of "Mno-haia Lita" for the new district com mittee officers.Refreshments were served after themeeting.

Rights groups hold 24-hour vigilfor Shukhevych in W ashington, D.C.

WASHINGTO N. D.C. (UNIS). -Amid anti-nuke demonstrations andthe annual Cherry Blossom FestivalParade, Washington witnessed onFriday and Saturday, March 28-29. yetanother, more unusual event.Several members of Ukrainian human rights organizations from NewJersey, Philadelphia. Pa., and Detroit.Mich., joined local Washingtoniansina24-hour strike in protest against thecontinued incarceration of Yuriy Shukhevych. long time political prisoner inthe USSR and member of the Ukrai

nian Helsinki monitoring group inKiev.Among those participating in thehunger strike, which was coordinatedby the Ukrainian National InformationService in Washington, was Dr. NinaStrokata Karavansky, Dr. Karavan-sky. a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki monitoring group and now amember of its external representationwho spent four years in Soviet labo:camps before coming to the UnitedStates only four months ago, was joined

in the strike by her husband, SvyatoslavKaravansky. on Saturday morning.The hunger strike was held on thecorner of 16th and K streets, near theSoviet Embassy, and lasted from 11a.m. Friday to 11 a.m. Saturday.This is not the first time that Dr.Karavansky has come to the aid ofYuriy Shukhevych. In the fall of 1971.Dr. Karavansky. who had lost her job inO dessa because of her human rightsactivities and had moved to Nalchik inthe Caucasus to be near friends, gaveShukhevych. his wife and their twoinfant children living accom odations inher Nalchik apartment.The following organizations wererepresented during the protest: theUnited Ukrainian Human RightsGroups Comm ittee, the D etroit Committee for the Defense of Human Rightsin Ukraine, the New Jersey-basedAmericans for Human Rights inUkraine Com mittee, the Human Rightsfor Ukraine Committee in Philadelphia."Sm oloskyp" O rganization for the.Defense of Human Rights in Ukraineand the,UNIS:'-

Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski meets with Julian Kulas.WASH INGTO N, D.C. - Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, national securityadviser to President Jimmy Carter,pledged to continue working for therelease of Ukrainian political prisonersduring a private meeting here withJulian Kulas, president of the Ukrainian American Dem ocratic O rganizationof Illinois and vice president of theChicago UCCA branch.He also stressed during the Monday,March 10, meeting that the Carteradministration will continue to treat the

question of human rights as an integralpart of its foreign policy.Dr. Brzezinski, who was named Manof the Year by. Chicago Ukrainiansduring this year's Ukrainian Independence Day observances, asked Mr.Kulas to convey his thanks to theUkrainian community for bestowingthe honor upon him. He added that he

has a special sentiment for the Ukrainian nation, which, he said, is the mostoppressed Slavic nation. `Mr. Kulas came to the United Statesin 1950 as a young boy w ith his parents.After living in Georgia, the familymoved to Chicago, where Mr. Kulascompleted his high school and university studies. He also become a memberof the Chicago S UM-A branch.Mr. Kulas is active in Ukrainiancommun ity and political affairs, and inaddition to holding the position of vicepresident of the local UCC A, is president of the Security Ukrainian Savingsand Loan Association. He has"a lawpractice and is a colonel in the U.S.Army Reserves.During the third World Congress ofFree Ukrinians in November 1978, Mr.Kulas was chairman of the presidiumthat conducted the proceedings.

Shwed re-elected presidentof Anti -Defamation League

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - Alexandra Shwed was re-elected president ofthe Ukrainian Anti-Defamation Leagueat its annual meeting, February 23,here.The following were also elected to theleague's executive committee: SlavkaStefanyshyn, vice-president; V6lody-myr Iwashkiv, secretary; Lesia Sta-chniw-Diachenko, press secretary;Melanie Sarachman, treasurer; IhorMirchuk, communications secretary,Ms. Stefanyshyn, cultural secretary;Nilia Pawluk, organizational secretary;and Ihor Kushnir, school secretary.The league was founded two yearsago by Mrs. Shwed after the movie"Holocaust" falsely depicted Ukrainians as assistants in the implementationof the "final solution."With the principle role of rectifyingmisinformation about Ukraine andUkrainians, the members of theleague attended various meetings andconferences pertinent to its objectives.In her report Mrs. Shwed enumeratedall the tasks accomplished by the leaguewithin the two-year period with the helpof the following members: Ivan Cienki.Mrs. Diachenko, Slavka Halaway. Mr.Iwashkiw, Daria Kushnir. Mr. Kushnir.Mr! Mirchuk, Mrs. Pawluk. Ms.:Sarachman. Patricia Sawchak, Roman

Shwed, Roksolana Sira, Ms. Stefanyshyn and Yaroslav Tatomyr.During the meeting 200 letters toPresident Jimmy Carter were signed bythe participants of the meeting urgingthe president to appoint Ukrainian-Americans to serve on the HolocaustCommission.Ninety telegrams were also sent toPresident Carter in support of hisdecision to boycott the Summer Olympics in Moscow.Mrs. Shwed Isited several projects ofthe league for the month of March: theleague will be meeting with Ukrainianschool representatives suggesting lessons to be taught to young studentsabout'the history of Ukrainians in theyears of World War II; the league will

also be meeting with Mayor WilliamGreene of Philadelphia to discuss thepossibility of a monument commemorating the Ukrainian holocaust - theartificial famine - in 1932-33.The league also invited two notedUkrainian historians, LewShankowskyof Philadelphia and Dr. Taras Hunczakof Rutgers University, to present theirviews about the defamation of Ukrainians in Ukraine in the past and present.A discussion followed the speakers'remarks.


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Philadelphians raise 32,000for Ukrainian Encyclopedia Ukra in i an doc t o r s hos t Ka r avanskysPHILA D ELPHIA , Pa. - The localUkrainian community raised S32.0OOfor the Ukrainian Encyclopedia fundand honored the encyclopedia's editor.Dr. Volodymyr Kubijovych, during areception at Manor Junior College onSunday, March 23.The gathering was organized by acommittee of local Ukrainians underthe patronage of the S hevchenko Scientific Society and the Ukrainian FreeAcademy of Sciences. The committeealso included representativies of theUkrainian. Catholic and O rthodoxChurches. It was chaired by D r. V olodymyr Pushkar.The reception honored D r. Kubijovych on the occasion of his 80th birthday. It was officially opened with briefremarks by D r. Pu shkar and a prayerrecited by the R ev. D r. John B ilanych,vicar general of the M etropolitan See ofthe Ukrainian Catholic Church in theUnited States.

The keynote address was delivered byD r. A tanas Figol, chief administrator ofthe Ukrainian Encyclopedia, who spokeabout the many years of work whichwent into the preparation of the Ukrainian Encyclopedia and called the project the concern of the entire Ukrainiancommunity.In turn, D r. Kubijovych addressedthe audience speaking about his life inLemkivshchyna, Lviv and Cracow.

Ukrainian youths also greeted thejubilarian during the reception. AndriyB oyko expressed greetings on behalf ofs tudents , and O lha Mychaj luk onbehalf of Plast.D i Petro S tercho, president of thePhiladelphia U CCA , spoke on behalf ofthe Ukrainian community of the area.The reception was concluded with abenediction delivered by the Very Rev.Protopresbyter Stephan Bilak.

Stebelsky re-elected presidentof Newark's "Chornomorska SitchNEWA RK, N.J. - Myron Stebelskywas re-elected to his ninth consecutiveterm as president of the UkrainianA thletic and. Cultural A ssociation"Chornomorska Sitch" at its annualmeeting on March 15 at the " Sitch"Home at 680 Sanford Aye.A lso elected to the executive boardwere: I wan Chamulak, vice president;Petro S emeniuk, vice presidentj-RomanPyndus, secretary; D mytro B obelak.financial secretary; Joseph Trush,

sports secretary; Om elan Twardowskyand Walter Bodnar, press secretaries;Roman B oyko, business affairs director; O leksander Napora and D mitroO lijnyk, dance chairmen.Members of the executive board andsports chairmen include Wasyl B asniak,Eugene. Chyzow ych, Wasyl Matiash,Peter Smook, George Savaryn, MariaHanych. Nestor Paslawsky, BorysKuchynsky, Roman S lysh, Dm ytroKulyk, Andrij Gbur, Marian Hamulak,John Kalynowych, Jr. and WalterWasylak. The auditing board includesJohn O ryniak, O syp Holynsky, andJohn S tefurysyn, and R oman Lapy-chak, Petro Buniak and V ictor Rohow -sky serving on the arbitration board.Elected as lifetime members were LevMular, thefirstsecretary of the "Sitch,"and long-time activist William Ku-chkuda.Some S40.000 was spent on varioussports programs in the past year, thereports revealed, with the greatest sumexpended on the "Sitch" Sports Schoolprogram which has gained wide appeal.It was also reported that the varsitysoccer team won second place in the

Schaefer League and was promoted tothe Major D ivision for 1980. The teamalso won the Blue Ribbon Tournamentand was the champion of the A ssociation of Ukrainian Sports Clubs ofNorth America (USCAK-East).The second team won first place inthe Winter Tournament at. RocklandCommunity,College in New York, whilejunior team won the soccer tournamentin Ellenville, N.Y.The " Chornomorska Sitch" tennisplayers, table tennis teams, swimmersand volleyball teams also met withsuccess during 1979 . The women'svolleyball team was ranked number onein the USCAK-East standings.In recognition of their work with the"S itch" S ports S chool, which has beenin operation for the past 10 years at theResort Center "V erkhovyna" at GlenSpey, N.Y.. plaques and scrolls werepresented to Messrs; Stebelsky, Twardowsky, Chyzowych, Matiash, andV olodymyra and Yaroslav W asylak. Itwas stated that registrations are alreadybeing accepted for the 1980 session.In addition to its sports program,

members of "Sitch" have been involvedin Ukrainian commu nity affairs. JosephTrush, D mytro B obelak, George Chra-newych and Eugene Chyzowych haverepresented "S itch" in the UCCA . A ndMessrs. Stebelsky Twardowsky andChranewych, A lexander Napora, andWolodymyr Loyko have representedthe association on the executive boardsof the central U krainian sports organizations.

O D W U p l a n s u p d a t e d h i s t o r y b o o kJERSEY CITY, N.J. -T hen atio nal

executive board of the O rganization forthe Rebirth of Ukraine (O D WU) announced that it will publish a new booktracing the 50-year history of theorganization.The temporary three-member executive board consists of Stephan Kuropasand Walter Riznyk, honorary vicepresidents of the O D WU , and EugeneSkocko, former secretary of the executive board. ` - '-''- ' V 'V .'The editorial board will be collectingmaterial on the history of the O bW U

from its members, archives and otherorganizations. The board said thatunfortunately many documents weredestroyed during World War II.The O D WU was established in theUnited States by the Command ofUkrainian Nationalists. Its purpose wasand continues to be to assist the Ukrainian people in its struggle for independence.The executive board of the organization issued an appeal to Ukrainians whohave documents detailing'the O D WU'shistory^ to. j'enfl' them to'j he editoria lboard.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Nina StrokataKaravansky, a physician, and herhusband Sviatoslav Karavansky, apoet, met here at the Ukrainian Instituteof A merica with members of the m etropolitan New York branch of theUkrainian .Medical A ssociation ofNorth America on Saturday, March 29.During the first part of the meeting.Dr. Karavansky spoke about the stateof medicine in Ukraine and the USSR,and about medical conditions in concentration camps and in exile.The former political prisoner's narrative elicited many questions from hercolleagues, to which she and her husband responded, providing a glimpse ofthe primitive medical methods used inthe Soviet Union.The couple noted that the Sovietsproduce much propaganda about me

dical achievements which do not existand that foreigners are shown notPotemkin villages, but Potemkin hospitals.A discussion with the two Karavanskys followed, and topics such as theiractivity in Ukraine, emigration to theWest and their plans for the future weretouched upon.The couple asked all doctors andothers to help D r. Mykola Plakhotniuk,who since 1972 has been confined in theD nipropetrovske psychiatric hospitalfor his Ukrainian patriotism. Theystressed that if Ukrainians in the Westdo not save Plakhotniuk, he will die.D r. Karavansky forwarded materialsabout the political prisoner to Drs.Stepan Woroch and Oleh Wolansky asan aid to further action on his behalf atvarious international forums.

Plas t p l ans 8 t h wo r l d cong r essNEW YO RK, N.Y. - The eighth

congress of the Conference of Ukrainian Plast O rganizations, the international body of Plast Ukrainian YouthO rganization, will be held at the Soy u-zivka U NA estate in Kerhonkson, N.Y.,Thursday, April 17, through Sunday,A pril 20.A lthough the m ain session of thetriennial congress will be held Saturdayand S unday, A pril 19-20, several preliminary meetings are scheduled forThursday and Friday, April 17-18.Representatives of national Plastcommands will meet on Thursday.Friday will be devoted to matters ofyouth education as Plast leaders andactive youth counselors will meet.Conferences of the highest-rankedcounselors of "novatstvo" ("Orlynyi

Kruh") and "yunatstvo" ("S kobynyiKruh") will take place that day.v vThe Conference of Ukrainian Plast'O rganizations will officially convene at10 a.m. on Saturday and will continueits business sessions and discussionsthrough Sunday when the conference isscheduled to adjourn at 2 p.m.

Participants of the conference willelect members of the Supreme Plast"B ulava," the Supreme Plast Counciland a permanent committee on theelection of '. " nachalnyi plastun."D elegates and guests may register forthe conference from 10 a.m. Thursdayuntil Saturday's opening session.Information about the conferencewas released by the New York head

quartered Supreme Plast "Bulava."Russian books in U.S.outnum ber Am er ican nove ls` there

NEW YORK , N.Y. - A reportreleased by the U.S. Helsinki WatchCommittee indicates that modern Russian literature is available in the UnitedStates to a far greater degree than isfrequently charged by S oviet publishingofficials.A ccording to Winthrop Knowlton,chairman of the board of Harper andRow Publishers and head of the Helsinki Watch subcommittee which commissioned the report, the special studywas requested because "unlike theSoviet Union, where publishing activities are centralized, there are hundredsof individual publishers in the UnitedStates. We don't have statistics readilyavailable with which to evaluate Sovietassertions that they are printing more ofour literature than we are of theirs."Robert L. B ernstein, chairman of theHelsinki Watch Committee and president and chairman of the bcurd ofRandom House, added that the report"clarifies many misconceptions aboutpublishing practices in the UnitedStates and the Soviet Union. It demonstrates that simple numerical calculation of annual publishing and translation statistics can be very misleading.". Compiled for the Helsinki WatchCommittee by Prof. Maurice Fried:berg, chairman of the department ofSlavic languages and literatures at theUniversity of Illinois, the report is partof an ongoing effort to documentcompliance w ith the H elsinki Final Act.It deals, in particular, with the provisionwh'jch calls upon the .signatory nationsto " facilitate the freer ana', wider dissemination of information of all lands."

Titled "A Helsinki Record: TheA vailability of S oviet Russian Literature in the United S tates." the Fried bergreport goes beyond statistical analysisin exploring national attitudes towardliterature. It acknowledges the validityof S oviet charges that Am ericans aremore interested in Soviet "dissident"writing than in S oviet novels written inthe official style of socialist realism.The report points out, however, thatthese attitudes are not products ofofficial decree or ideological bias, as theSoviets charge, but are thoroughlyconsisten t with A merican literarytastes."The A merican public does notexpect its country's writers to celebratethe virtues of the American way of life.A mericans generally agree that a writer's proper role is that of a critic of hissociety," said the report.S oviet officials often choose to translate and publish "dissident" A mericanliterature, for example, literature whichexpresses disapproval of many aspectsof life in the United States. Ironically,they are able to claim that it is representative of A merican literaturebecause these books are widely published and read in the United States.Prof. Friedberg points out that, inaddition to the "generous and representative sample of modern (20th century) Russian literature available toA merican readers...A merican libraries,archives, scholarly journals and publishers have, in effect, been the custodians of a significant part ol modernRussian writjng, that,portion of it tha^.

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4, SVOBODAU k r a i n i a n W e e k lNew beginnings

As the Easter season arrives, we cannot help but be filled with happiness,newfound inner strength and a sense of spiritual renewal when recalling thatit was on this feast day that our Lord. Jesus Christ, rose from the dead infulfillment of ancient prophesy.

Our feelings of spiritual well-being are greatly enhanced by the physicalreawakening taking place as nature is revived from its winter sleep - as thedull gray of winter is transformed into the vibrant green of spring brightenedby freshly bl ooming flowers and as the birds sing praises to his beauty createdby God.

Most of all. the new beginnings in evidence all around us during the Easter-spring season elicit a spirit of boundless optimism.

Let us. then, make use of this spirit to lay aside our petty grievances,quarrels and misunderstandings . And let us transform the unity we feel whenwe gather on Easter morning with our families for the traditional Ukrainian"Sviachene" into a unity among all Ukrainians - those in the homeland andin the diaspora alike.

For only in unison, with the help of God, can we hope to alter the sad fate ofthe U krainian nation and look to a day when, if not we, then our children willbe able to see a free Ukraine determining its own future course.

Khrystos Voskres - Voistynu Voskres!

An untimely deathThe death of Bishop Jarosla vGabro of the St. N icholas Ukrainian Catholic

Eparchy of Chicago came as a shock to Ukrainians of all faiths. At a timewhen the Ukrainian Catholic Church is experiencing historic changes and ison the doorstep of a new era. Bishop Gabro's presence and guidance wouldhave greatly helped the Ukrainian Catholic Church find its new course.

Throughout the 35 years of his pastoral service. Bishop Gabro was knownand loved for his modesty and cooperative and tolerant nature. Hiscounsel ing als o contributed to the resolution of several painful cleavageswhich developed in our community.

His absence from Ukrainian Church and commu nity affairs will be felt byeveryone.

Letters to the editorsUnderlines importance of census

Dear Editors:As a demographer and sociologist

well aware of the great importance of adecennial enumeration of the population . I wou ld like to com mend theeditors and staff of The UkrainianWeekly who were responsible for thearticle "Hel p you rself - Help ourcom mun ity Answer the census "which appeared in The U krainianWeekly on March 23. The article notonly underscored the importance ofanswering the census , but it als o explained the questions concerning ancestry (Nos. II . 13. 14) which appear onthe long form of the questionnaire. Theimportance of answering these questions correctly cannot be overemphasized.

No one will ever know how manyUkrainian immigrants misreportedtheir native land by either respondingerroneously or not object ing to immi-

t^pswatf^wwiiôgH^-sKtstiwccw'aw^âcaaot^ttttiiHtottwtwwwftwtcc-aw^Join the UNAand readr the WeeklyS t S S S ^ U f t W M e W K f l H W ^ W t ^ t t O T r a M W O T W S W W C H '

gration officials labeling them Austrian.Hungarian. Polish. Russian or German.Thus, the question of ancestry was oftendecided on the basis of the currentgovernment in power in the homelandor the port of departure.

Let us not make the same mistakeagain . We are Ukrainians , and weshou ld be counted as such in the 1980census. Italians. Irish and Spanish areproud of their ancestry and heritage.We should be just as proud of ours. Wemust-not undercount ourselves. Sincemisreporting is not done on purpose,but is usually just a matter of beinguninformed, making all of us aware ofthese important census questions wasone of the best public services that TheWeekly could d o for the entire Ukrainian community.

Ann Lencyk Pawliczko,Instructor of sociology.Fordham University

Enjoys Nowytski's filmsDear Editors:

On Saturday, March 1, the UkrainianSocial Club of Sacred Heart UkrainianCatholic Church showed two films onUkrainian topics: "Pysanka" and "TheImmortal Image" films which havewon awards for Slav ko Nowyt ski,producer and director of the films.

"The Immortal Image" is a filmabout Ukrainian-Canadian artist Leo , wh o illustrates his technique bycreating the bust of Ukrainian composer Myko la Lysenko. "Pys anka"gives the historical background andillustrates the making of a UkrainianEaster egg. The films were made available free by the Binghamton PublicLibrary and shown by George Schuterof the library's audio -visual department.

At a time when the popularity ofUkrainian art such as Ukrainian Easter

go unrecognized as Ukrainian, it isespecially important that we assurefilms on Ukrainian topics are seen byour youth and made available. I strongly recommend that Ukrainians checkwith their public libraries' audio-visualdepartments to see if there are suchfilms available. If not, recommend thatthe libraries purchase such films.

This is not a solicited advertisementfor the films of Slavko Nowytski, butafter seeing the films, I only hopi thatMr. Nowytski will produce more filmson such topics as Ukrainian embroidery, church architecture, etc. Hedeserves our encouragement and support.

1 have been told that the films aredistributed by Filmart Inc. , 199 E.Annapolis, St. Paul, Minn. 55118;telephone: (612) 291-2563.

Lubomyr M. ZobniwBinghamton, N.Y.

News quizThe quiz covers the previous two issues of The. Ukrainian Weekly. Answ ers

will appear with the next quiz.

1. Who called the synod of Ukrainian Catholic bishops which recentlytook place in Rome. Italy?

2. Who was named coadjutor with the right of success ion to Cardinal JosvfSlipyj?

3. How many persons serve on the UNA Supreme Auditing Committee?4. Who is Zynov iy K"rasivsky?5. Which organizations participated in the youth panel recently held in

New York City?6. Who was appointed to the National Advisory Council on Ethnic

Heritage Studies?7. Where did a group of judges appeal for Ukrainian pol itical prisoners?8. Who is the new member of the Svobo da editorial staff.'9. What is the name of the political organization recently founded in

Washington. D.C.?10. For how many years of pastoral service was the Very Rev. Dr.

Volodymyr Gavlich honored?

Answers inprnunis quiz ilw Sliamokiiiaml tt'Hkex-Burre I V.I ,lisiri,inimmiiires: Mary I.ft-, k: I krainian Siml,nis ( uHii,m I I'liila,lelpJiia: ilu; ( , i r /mi l i ian Ski (tub IK IK): a SImillion t VI ( iili,iral Fimmluiimi: thy I 'krainian I'liblit Group in ' , , Iniplanentuiiiin`t 'l ; ,- . .- , . St,-plwn (hir,msky ami I'nr,i larmm,ki: ,ii,mh,r ,,f ihr fm,irih'iì/mWm - S,Hu.mih(,,iirr l.,rlrh,m Ijlmi, Affairs: -;iifr,i'i- `/a,t,r,r Sir/U,lla I',-lr,t - S " M (V - - . i. f .' . 'i .. - . '- . , .' -, ., r , . r i t l . . , . - . - .r .


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Th e C hu rch in U kraine is al ive r?oftm m .Below is the text of the 1980 Easter Pastoral of the Ukrainian Catholic hierarchyin the United States.

"I assure you among those standinghere there are some who will not tastedeath until they see the kingdom ofGod set up in power" (Mark 9:1)

. Christ is Risen!In his gloriousresurrection rom thedead these words of our Lord, JesusChrist have been fulfilled before oureyes. We are the witnesses to thefulfillment of this prophecy of C hrist aswe behold the Lord destroying sin,trampling on death and crushing thevery gates of hell through his victoriousdeath on the cross and his triumphantresurrection from the grave. Truly hasthe kingdom of his Father been set up inpower in our midst.Jesus came to proclaim salvation andforgiveness from his Father and by hisdeath and resurrection he appearsbefore us both as savior and redeemer(A cts 2:36). He came to announce hisFather's kingdom and by his death andresurrection he is constituted king. Hewalked among the disciples as one whoserved (Mark 10:43). In his resurrectionwe behold him as Lord of Lords (Revelation 19:16). Jesus taught the crowdsunassumingly in the name of God. In hisresurrection we see this very namebestowed on him as his right ( pians 2:9 and Revelation 19:12b-13).He spoke to the people as the prophet ofthe Lord. In his resurrection we lookupon him as all prophecy fulfilled (Luke

24:2 7).,. . . ,. , / ; ` . ` . ; ; . , . . ; . , ` .This glory w hich is his is ours as well.For he goes before us as the first fruitsfrom among those w ho sleep in death (1Corinthian 15:20), preparing a pathwayfor the resurrection of all flesh from thedead (Anaphora of St. B asil). But thispromise and pledge of future glory hasbegun even now in our midst. St. Paultells us that in our baptism we too havebeen raised up to glory (Roma ns 6:3-4).What has been begun now in ourChristian lives will be brought to fullcompletion on the final day of glory.

St. Paul also tells us that all creationgroans in travail while it waits for theday of G od's deliverance (Roma ns 8:22-23). A ll creation what a wonderousidea! Think of it: all is being m ade newthrough Christ. It follows then that we,his disciples, do not reach out one-on-one for this great salvation flowing fromhis resurrection. We do not stand insolitary aloneness, but come beforehim as part of a family, part of acommunity, part of a nation. Resurrection is held out to each of us but only inthe context of our human condition.In this Year of the Family howmeaningful Christ's resurrection is foreach of our families to know that boundtogether by ties of Christian love andnurtured o n the truths of Christ we willrise together as one in praise and gloryto the Lord who lifts us up.Yet even now before the day of finalglory we b ehold the pattern of transformation taking place: the binding up ofwounds and the healing of spirits.Nation s enshrouded in the dismal deathof repression are being quickened withthe new life that co me from Christ in hisresurrection. The Ukrainian nation is acase in point. Viewed through the eyesof the world its plight seems hopeless.But seen through the light refractedfrom the radiance of Christ's resurrection we see a vigrant and new lifestirring the inward soul of our valiantpeople; our brothers and sisters. TheChurch in Ukraine, bo nded, persecutedand outlawed is alive, because its Lordlives: He is Risen! The dynamic life ofthe Ukrainian church in the homeland isboth an earnest and a pledge that thenation too shall rise even in our daybefore the final transformation lifts usall to glory.O n this D ay of Resurrection we viewthe great and final wonder of our God:Christ has passed over from earth toheaven! Let us pause then to fill ourhearts with those glorious words fromResurrection M atins. "You are ourpassover, all fragrant and filled withlight. You are the salvation of theworld."

"The Other Holocaust" a valuable bookletby A lexander Motyl

Bohdan Wytwycky. "The Other Holocaust. Many Circles of Hell." Washington,D.C.: The Novak Report on the New Ethnicity, 19 80 .

CHRIST IS RISEN!MyroslavMetropolitanArchbishop of Philadelphia

BasilB ishop of S tamford

JaroslavBishop of St. Nicholas in Chicago

The Holocaust - the killing of 6million Jews during World War II has recently become the topic of heateddiscussion and intense soul-searching inNorth A merica and Europe. Yet contrary to the widespread popular misconception, Jews were far from the onlynation to suffer terribly at the hands ofthe Nazis. For as D r. Bohdan Wytwycky makes agonizingly clear in hisrecently published booklet, "The OtherHolocaust," another 9- million people, consisting primarily of Gypsies,Poles, Ukrainians and B yelorussians,died in the other "circle of hell."Published in March 1980 by TheNovak Report on the New Ethnicity, a -research organization run by theologian, journalist and social activistMichael Novak, "The O ther Holocaust" is an extremely valuable contribution to our knowledge of Nazi policies of genocide, racism and anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe.Moreover, the book's value is enhanced by the fact that it is the firs tstudy ever to deal in an informed andlevel-headed manner with an issue ofsuch great importance not only toUkrainians, Poles and other Slavs, butalso to Jews all nations with a historyof unfortunate mutual relations whichDr. Wytwycky's study should do muchto improve by helping them realize thattheir common suffering makes of themnatural friends not enemies.The 96-page booklet includes a foreword by Rabbi Seymour Siegel of theJewish Theological Seminary of A merica, a publisher's preface by MichaelNovak, a select bibliography and anumber of charts and maps.The back cover is adorned with theendorsements of Jacob Neusner, professor of religious studies at BrownUniversity, Michael B erenbaum, professor of religion at Wesleyan University and former deputy director of thePresident's Comm ission on the H olocaust, and Rabbi Siegel. Prof. Berenbaum, for example, calls "The Other

Holocaust" "a most interesting and in

Bush seeks more funds fo r foreign broadcastingThe statement below by GeorgeBush, candidate for the Republicannomination for p resident, was sent tothe press by the Bush campaign committee. The Weekly will continue toprovide a forum for other presidentialcandidates.who speak out on topics ofinterest to the Ukrainian community.The. Carter, administration and theCongress must revital ize A mericanradio broadcasting operations, includ

ing the Voice of A merica, Radio FreeEurope and Radio Liberty as strategicweapons in our continuing struggle forfreedom, of thought of expression.This freedom is under increasing attackin the Soviet Union, in Eastern Europeand in m uch of the Third W orld. Yet, ata time when the Soviets have beenexpanding their international broadcasts, the United States has been slowly'dismantling its own facilities. . . .v This nation must look upon itsinternational broadcasting efforts as a,.::.,: ,j...,..^LL .: : ^ - i - . i . . . - : ....^,,.^.............

key part of its overall national securityeffort and as a key element of ourhuman rights policy in foreign affairs.Just as we are prepared to increasedefense spending, in a time of crisis, somust we increase the relatively insignificant sums we spend on broadcasting inorder to provide the people behind theIron Curtain with, information regarding the W estern wo rld, its freedoms andan alternative view beyond the SovietUnion.I am sharply critical of the B oard forInternational Broadcasting (B IB ), theagency created by Congress in 1974 tosupervise Radio Free Europe andRadio Liberty (RFE/RL). Since 1974,the fall-off in listenership, particularlyin the Soviet Union, has been alarming.While jamming accounts for some ofthe problems, the major reason is lackof signal strength.The action s of the Carter administration to replace 11 transmitters havebeen too little, too late, providing only

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half of the required transmission power.The stations will still be unable toprovide an adequate signal to much ofthe high-priority Russian and Ukrainian audiences of the European USSR.A major deficiency in our international broadcast effort is our failure toreach approximately 40 million Moslems living north of Iran and Afghanistan in S oviet C entral Asia. This gapwill continue so long as we have notransmitter facilities in the Middle East;yet there is no adequate provision forsuch facilities in the administrationbudget proposals now before Congress.The most immediate problem,however, is a SI.5 million shortfall inRFE/RL's current operating budget.Lack of money is forcing the station tocut staff and programming at the verytime they should be reaching out toadditional audiences. Unless Congress/moves quickly, the damage may beIrreparable. j '\ \; '-V -\V v' ,';, r\\

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many senses pioneering study of the fateof the many victims of Nazi oppression."D r. Wytwycky's work is divided intoeight major sections. Two deal with theideological underpinnings of the "NaziTheories of Racism and Imperialism"which justified the treatment of "Slavsand G ypsies as S ubhumans andA socials." The other six describe thetreatment of Gypsies, Poles Ukrainians, B yelorussians, prisoners of war andslave laborers. Each section gives aconcise and accessible for the laymanand scholar alike - overview of the incredible suffering undergone by thesepeoples.Of particular interest to the Ukrainian reader is the section dealing withGerman atrocities in Ukraine. /Ac cording to Dr. W ytwycky, `Tiklefyprojectedthe settlement of 20 millionGermans inUkraine within a period of 20 years.Those Ukrainians who would remainwould become their serfs or slaves.O thers would be killed or deported. Inorder to help rationalize this process,Ukrainians and Russians were claimeuto be semi-savage inferiors, incapable ofreason, more closely resembling machines or animals than human beings.Nazi officials referred to the localpopulation in occupation zone Ukraineas helots, subhumans and half-monkeys."Typical of this attitude, he writes,"Hitler decreed that education for theSlavs was dangerous. Himmler thenspecified that they were only to betaught how to sign their names, knowenough arithmetic to count to 500 andlearn 'that/,t was God's will that they beobedient, conscientious and politetowards the Germans.' "Yet, as D r. Wytwycky points out, thesuffering experienced by Jews, Poles,Ukrainians, Gypsies and Byelorussiansduring the war is indivisible. A nd just asJews dare not overlook the horrorsexperienced by the Slavs, so too Ukrainians must not forget that their suffering formed only one link in a chainbinding them to Jews and other nationsas well."We must be our brothers' keepers,"exhorts Dr. Wytwycky. "Therefore,anti-Semitism cannot be left to becomeof concern solely to Jews. The contempt, but thinly disguised in ethnicjokes and barbs, directed at timestoward P oles or in the far West inCanada toward Ukrainians, cannot beleft to become the concern solely ofPoles and Ukrainians, respectively. Norcan bigotry directed against Gypsies beleft to b ecome solely a. concern ofGypsies." The " vital universalist lesson," writes the author, is "that we mustjoin hands in moral undertaking."In the final analysis, it is Dr. Wytwycky's humanistic appeal for mutualunderstanding and the elimination ofracism, chauvinism and anti-Semitismthat is the most important message of"The Other Holocaust.""The O ther Holocaust" is availablefrom The Novak Report, 918 "F"Street, N.W., Washington, D .C. 20004,fo^S4`.95-j;rasS1 i.05 postage and hand-

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Byzantine choir plans second tour of North AmericaJERSEY CITY, N.J. - T h e Ukrainian Byzantine Choir of Utrecht, Holland, w ill 4our 14 major U.S . andCanadian cities from O ctober 2S toNovember 16 under the sponsorship ofUkrainian Churches and the UkrainianCongress Committee of A merica.The choir is composed of 40 malevocalists. It was established in 1950. byD r. Myroslav Antonov ych, a noted

composer and musicologist, who hasdirected the choir since its inception.D r. A ntonovych received his Ph.D . inmusicology from Utrecht Universityand later conducted post-doctoralresearch at Harvard University as aforeign exchange scholar.Though the choir members are allD utch, they have mastered Ukrainianmusic and song to such a degree thatthey are justifiably know as "The DutchCossac ks." T heir repetoire reflects thehistory and development of Ukrainianmusic and its close ties with the Ukrainian Churches.The Byzantine Choir of Utrecht hasappeared throughout Europe, its musichas been recorded and their concertshave been broadcast on radio andtelevision on numerous occasions. Theyhave appeared in all the major capitalsand cities of Europe including Brussels,Paris, A msterdam, Rotterdam, Luxembourg, Munich, Rome, London andBasle to name but a few. The choir hasalso given concerts in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, Notre Dame Cathedral inParis and Westminster A bbey in Lon don.The music critics in every city wherethe B yzantine choir has performed haveexpressed themselves very favorablyabout them. Here are a few excerptsfrom reviews:

"The Byzantine Choir conducted byD r. A ntonovych is undoubtedly one of

the most prominent vocal groups specializing in Ukrainian and Slavonicreligious music in Western Europe...Every phase of expression was maintained precisely and elegantly to thevery end. The choral power of thisrelatively small choir is impressive."("Rheinische Post")."What force was it, which compelledDutchmen to become propagators ofUkrainian choral music?... It is thattheir conductor knows and feels thebeauty of Ukrainian music so deeplythat this gives him the power to initiateothers into the mystery of the art."("Nieuwe Utrechtsche D agblad").Appearing with the Byzantine Choir

as guest-artist will be V olodymyr Luciv,

The Ukrainian Byzantine Choirtenor and bandurist of internationalstature. Mr. Luciv has toured the worldgiving concerts in A ustralia, Canada,the United States, Israel and Europe.He studied music and voice in London and Rome and achieved his proficiency on the bandura under GregoryNazarenko. A mong Mr. Luciv'sachievements are the first prize at theInternational Com petition of Vocalistsin B elgium, and his appearances at theBrussels.World's Fair and Prince AlbertHall in London.A nother guest-artist is pianist IreneusZuk, who was born in western Ukraineand received the greater part of hismusical training in Montreal, Que.Mr. Zuk is a graduate of McGillUniversity, the Conservatoire de Mu-

sique de la Province de Quebec inMontreal, the Royal College of Musicin London and holds a master of sciencefrom the Juilliard School in New York.He also studied at the InternationalSumm er Academy of the Mozarteum inSalzburg and at the University ofAlberta Banff School of Fine Arts.A t present he is a member of thepiano faculty at Queen's University inKingston, O nt., while completing hisdoctoral studies at the Peabody C onservatory in Baltimore, Md. Mr. Zuk hasperformed on CBC radio and television,has given num erous recitals in Canada,the United States and Europe, and hasappeared as soloist with several orches

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WINNIPEG, Man. - Dr. SimonJaroslav K alba, who has been executivedirector of the U krainian. CanadianCommittee for 14 years, has announcedhis resignation from that post effectivein seven months, announced the UCC.His resignation comes has a result ofhis planned move from Winnipeg. Dr.Kalba also served as executive directorof the Shevchenko Foundation.D r. Kalba, 69, postponed his resignation from September 1 to the end ofO ctober at the request of the UCCexecutive board so that he could delivera report on the activity of the UCCduring the past three years at its 13thcongress O ctober 11-13. D r. Simon Jaroslav Kalba

Bryttan to conduct "La Bohem e`SO UTH BEND , Ind . - A dr ianBryttan, concertmaster of the SouthBend S ymphon y and assistant professor of music at Notre D ame Un iversity,will conduct two performances ofPuccini's opera " La B oheme" on April

19 at 8 p.m. and on A pril 20 at 2 p.m. atthe O 'Laughlin A uditorium in SouthBend.Mr. Bryttan will conduct the NotreD ame U niversity O rchestra, chorus anda children's chorus. He also has assembled an international cast of soloistsfor this production.James Schwisow, a leading tenor atChicago's Lyric O pera, will sing the roleof R odolfo. A nna Perillo, who will singthe role of Mimi, is a well-known soloistfrom Italy. William D iana, who will

perform the role of Marcello, was asoloist with the D usseldorf Opera andthe New York City Opera.Lida Petruniak-Collucci, a SouthBend artist, will design the sets. Mrs.Collucci is a well-known UkrainianA merican artist whose works haveappeared in the Ukrainan Institute ofModern Art in Chicago.Mr. Bryttan is a graduate of theManhattan S chool of Music wherehe received a master's degree inconducting. He is well known to theUkrainian Am erican community for hisappearances as a violin soloist and forconducting the Metropolitan Sh eptyt-sky. Choir at S t. George UkrainianCatholic Church in New York and the"D umka" chorus. , - . v v , .

Singer, bandurist are bighit at concert in WinnipegWINNIPEG, Man. - A concert atthe Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre "O seredok" on March 14 bysinger Ed Evanko and bandurist PeterKosyk received favorable reviews in theMarch 15 editions of The WinnipegTribune and the Winnipeg Free Press.The performance, held in a coffeehouse setting, consisted of several

classical and popular non-Ukrainiansongs as well as Ukrainian melodies.Chris Guly of TheTribune wrote thatthe performance was a success.. Commenting on Mr. Evanko's introductory remark that he "is constantlylearning new styles and adopting newforms," Mr. G uly wrote: " Goingthrough various styles usually bringshim success and Friday's concert certainly was no exception."

"A recent duo, these two performersdemonstrated a professional blendingin their music. The powerful yet soothing tenor voice of Ed Evanko together with the gentle tones of PeteKosyk's bandura served as the perfectcompliment to each other," wrote Mr.Guly.Mr. Evanko, who is known to Ukrainian audiences across Canada and theUnited S tates, studied at Britain's O ldV ic Company for six years and subsequently appeared in B roadways playsand Stratford festivals. Mr. Kosykbegan playing the bandura at 10 and at- 13he was theyou ngest bandurist to jointhe Ta ra s. Shevchenko BanduristCapella of D etroit, Mich.

Mr. Guly wrote that the transitionfrom classical to traditional compositions was "somewhat amusing.""With the classical, the audience wasattentive, yet once the concert took thetraditional aspect, the audience soonrelaxed and the atmosphere took on anew energy," wrote Mr. Guly.The effects of the m ixture of banduramusic and Mr. Evanko's singing ofclassical and popular songs "were bothpleasurable and professional," said Mr.Guly."However, if one is to judge anaudience by atmosphere and generalreaction; it is safe to say that thetraditional part of the concert had thegreater appeal. It appears as though EdEvanko has found therightpartner. Hehas plans of travelling to a few citieswith this type of concert, yet is stilluncertain what the distant futureholds," wrote Mr. Guly.. Casimir Carter of the Free Press alsosaid that the Evanko-Kosyk combin ation was a success, writing: "These twoartists should return soon, they will bewelcome."The Evanko-Kosyk duo "proved tobe one of the happiest collaborations ofvoice and strings heard here in a longtime."Writing about the Ukrainian portionof the concert, Mr. Carter said: "Thefirst two were songs of yearning for thehomeland. 'How Long is My Exile,' byKytasty was sung with.,a hauntingfervor. There was a felling of pathos(Continued 11) .-`'.-`


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P a n o r a m a o f U k r a i n i a n c u l t u r e in t h e B ig A p p l eby Helen Perozak Smindak

E a s t e r c e l e b r a t i o n4 The pageant that is UkrainianEaster is being celebrated this weekendin Ukrainian churches of New York, asit is elsewhere in the free world. Thesomber, drama of Good Friday andSaturday, with worshippers prayingbeside the Tomb of Christ, is now over.In many chu rches, baskets of food wereblessed on Saturday.Toda y, the voices of choir and con-greation blend in the ancient Easterhymn of triumph "Khrystos Voskres"(Christ has Risen!) as candles flicker atthe altar and worshippers kneel andstand alternately.A parish in New York which followsage-old rituals almost tc-the-letter is theHoly Tr in i ty Ukra in ian Or th odoxChurch on Broome Street in lowerManhattan. Traditional services beganon Saturday before midnight, with theVery Rev. Artem Selepyna, head of theU k r a i n i a n O r t h o d o x C o n s i s t o r y a tSouth Bound Brook, N.J,, leading theprocession of worshippers outside intothe street for part of the four-hourResurrection service. As in old Ukrain e,the blessing of baskets takes place afterthe Liturgy outside the church (unlessextreme cold or rainy weather makesthis inadvisable), .At St. George's Ukrainian CatholicChurch in Manh attan's "LittleUkraine" neighborhood, Easter baskets

were blessed on Saturday during theday and the Resurrection Liturgy beganat 9 p.m. At 1 p.m. today, after theLiturgy, traditional "hahilky" will beperform ed by children of the parish inthe front of the church on East SeventhStreet under the direction of DariaGenza.A few blocks away, parishioners ofAll Saints' Ukrainian Orthodox Churchwho gathered for Erster services lastnight at 10 p.m. came outside holdingflickering candles in their hands for aportion of the service. They will bringtheir Easter food baskets to church thismornin g to be, blessed by Rev. IvanTkaczuk after the morning Liturgy.

Uptown, at St. Vladimir's UkrainianOrthodox Church on West 82nd Street,some parishioners brought baskets forblessing on Saturday afternoon andothers brought Easter baskets withthem to the three-hour evening service.The Resurrection Liturgy scheduled for10:30 this morning will be celebrated bythe Very -Rev. Volodymyr Bazylevskyand the Rev. Konstantin Kalinowski.

Three Ukrainian Catholic parishes inQueens, three in Brooklyn and another inStaten Is land have scheduled theirResurrection Liturgies for 6 o'clock thismorning. They include the Annunciat ion of the Blessed Virgin MaryChurch in Fresh Meadows, the HolyCross. Church in Astoria, S t Mary'sChurch in Ozone Park, the St. NicholasChurch in Brooklyn and the HolyTrinity Church on Staten Island.

Avramenko marks 85th birthdayV asile Avram enko, a name synonymous with Ukrainian folk dancingon the North American continent,marked his 85th birthday on March2 2 . Born in Stebliv, Ukraine, in 1895,Mr. Avramenko was one of the pr inciple forces behind the popular riseo f Ukra in ian fo lk danc ing in theUnited States and Canada. In addition to teaching the art of Ukrainianfolk da ncing to three generations ofUkrainians in the New World, Mr.Avramenko d id much to in te res tnon-Ukrainians in that art.O n May 25, 1978, Mr. Avram enkomarked the 50th anniversary of hisf i rs t per fo rmance in the Un i tedStates at the W orld Women's Exh ibitin Chicag o. Soon after, Mr. Avramenko founded the f i rs t dance ensembles in Chicago, Detro i t andCleveland, and later in other U.S..cit ies.Mr. Avramenko's Ukrainian dancing groups appeared on stages inthe United States, Canada, Brazil,Argentina and countries in Europe.His most outstanding achievement was the Ukrainian program heproduc ed at the Metropolitan O pera

House o n A pril 25, 1931. O ver 600persons were on stage that evening,ranging from a young gir l of 6 to agrandfather of 6 0 - 1 0 0 s ingers and500 dancers in all .Henry Beckett of the New YorkEvening Post wrote in the April 27,1 9 3 1 , edition of the newspaper "Allin all, this performance provided ana b u n d a n c e o f me lo d y , h a rmo n y ,rhythm, color, energy, start l ing agil i ty and am azing mass effects, bothin tableau and violent motion. It was

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During the Solemn Divine Liturgycelebrated at St. Mary's in Ozone Parkby the Rev. Lubomyr Mudry, some 10to 12 college stud ents assisted by a fewolder parish ione rs will sing the responses in Ukrainian under the direction of Valentina Nalywajko. For Mrs.Nalywajko, who directs the choir ofHoly Tr in i ty Ukra in ian O r thodoxChurch in downtown Manhattan, it willbe a night without s leep. Worshipservices at Holy Trinity concludearound 4 a.m., while those at St. Mary'sbegin at six.Weather permitting, parishioners ofthe Holy,Ghost Catholic Church andtheir pastor , the Very Rev. GeorgeBinkowski , wil l walk around theirchurch three times during the Resurrection Liturgy which precedes the 7:30Liturgy this morning. They wil l beaccompanied by the church choir, ledby Lev Rejnarowych.At the Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral in Brooklyn, the Rt.Rev. Vital iy Sahaidakiwsky led hiscongregation at midnight in a procession around the cathedral that beganthe "Voskresna Utrennia." Parishioners' baskets were blessed in aceremony following the 2 a.m. Liturgy.

E g g s U k r a i n i a n - s t y l e' Ukrainian pysanky continue to winthe admiration of the press and thepublic.A bold front-page headline in theMarch 28 edition of the New YorkDaily News "Easter Eggs How toPaint Them Ukrainian-Style" pointedreaders to the first page of the Fridaysection, where a feature article aboutUkrainian Easter eggs and a phot ograph of pysanky directed those interested in the craft to visit the UkrainianMuseum.The result? Over 500 persons (most ofthem non-Ukra in ian , accord ing tomuseum officials) streamed into themuseum on lower Second AvenueMarch 29-30. They watched closely asTania Oberyshyn, Ah`na Gbur andSophia Zieluk applied beeswax designsto eggs and dipped them into dyes,viewed Slavko Nowytski'sfilm "Pysan-ka" to get a full understanding of thebatik method of decorating eggs, andtook in the museum's exhibit of 300exquisite Ukrainian Easter eggs.The museum's gift shop w as "swamped with buyers' who purchased decorated supplies.At J.C . Penney's corpo rate headquarters in midtown M anhattan, Christine Fiore and Mar ta Xacuszko demonstrated the Ukrainian art on March24 and 25 in the employee lounge andthe executive cafeteria.Gimble's 33rd Street store showcaseda display of handpainted eggs fromApril 3 to 5 on its fifth floor, w here Miss

Oberyshyn, Miss Gbur and Mrs. Fioretook turns showing Gimbel's customershow to "paint" Ukrainian eggs.

E g g s t h a t b l o o m i n t h e s p r i n g' The New York Botanical Garden'sSpring 1980 education program included Ukrainian Easter egg decoration,identified in the NYBG catalogue as

course CR F 257 and described as a one-day lecture, demon stration and workshop.Offered on M arch 28 and 29 in theWatson Building, the course gave 22students the opportunity to practice theintricate work of floral and geometricdesigns and to take home their mina-ture "masterpieces."

M r s . Jacuszko spoke about the traditions and history of the craft /as sheshowed students how `iCs dfyhe. Thelecture-workshop was accompanied byan exhibit of pysanky. decoratingsupplies and Easter cards provided bythe "Arka" Company of Manhattan.(gbgg^(SW o r k s h o p s

Irena Harmaty and her 17-year-olddaughter, Halyna, residents of Queens,work as a team to show parishioners ofSt. Mary's Church in Ozone Park howto decorate Ukrainian Easter eggs. On arecent Sunday, the two held a decorating session in the church hall forseveral would-be artists. As in pastyears , Mrs. Harmaty explained themeaning of symbols and described thedecorating procedure as her daughterplied a "kiska" and drew designs on anegg. ^In Manhattan, two decorating workshops offered for SUM-A members onMarch 15 brought out 60 youngstersand teenagers to learn the craft underthe guidance of Iryna Hoshowsky. ^ ( S p r i n g c a l e n d a r

4 A display of glasspaintings andother recent work by Yaroslava Sur-mach Mills continues at Hopper House,82 Nor th Broadw ay , Nyack , NY . ,through April 13. Fridays noon-4 p.m.,Saturdays and Sundays 1-5 p.m. "Pysa nka and i t s Sym bols ," adisplay of 300 Ukrainian Easter eggsfrom the private collection of TanyaOsadca, is at the Ukrainian Museum,203 Second A ve., to June 1. Wednesdaythrough Sunday, 1-5 p.m. April 12 A videotaped performance of the Metropolitan Opera's"Do n C arlo" with Paul P lishka in aprincipal role will be broadcast on thePBS network.(Channel 13 in New YorkCity) at 8 p.m.' April 12 - Two egg-decoratingworkshops for children at the Ukrainian Mu seu m, 9 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.Children under 12 free. Phone 228-0110for reservations.' April 13 Egg-decorating workshops for adults , 9:30a.m. and 1:30 p.m.Reservations required. Fee, S10; members, S8.50.' April 13 - , Children of the HolyTrinity. Churc h on S taten Island willperform "hahilky" at the parish's community Easter dinner.

' April 13 New Yorkers planningto attend traditional "Providna Nedil-ia" ceremonies at South Bound Brook,N . J . , can board buses at St. Vladimir'sUkrainian Orthodox Church, 160W. 82St., a t 8 a.m. Buses will make a stop atthe Ukrainian National Home onSecond Avenue to pick up passengers.

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Emig re a r t is ts t e l l o f d if fic u lt lives f o r no n -c on fo rmis t s in USSRStory and photos by Marco Levytskv

Toronto, Ont.There is a popular joke in the SovietUnion and it sounds like this:"What's the difference between naturalists, impressionists and socialist-realists?"Natural is ts paint what they see,impressionists paint what they feel andsocialist-realists paint what they aretold."This , in a nutshel l , sums up thefrustrations of artists trying to workunder the rigid confines of so-calledsocialist-realis m, the officially sanctioned art form in the Soviet Union.Basically, the definition of socialist-realism is simple. Realism means justthat, and socialist means the work mustserve a useful political purpose."To work under such circumstancesis impossible," said Anatole Krinsky,one of two dissident artists who recentlyexhibited his works in Toronto at theUkrainian Canadian Art FoundationGallery.Mr. Krinsky and Igor Siniavin areboth residents of New York City. Thiswas the first time either of them hadexhibited their works in Canada.As Mr. Krinsky explained, an artistwho wishes to have his work exhibitedmust f i rs t obtain approval from aspecial art comm ittee. The first time hebrings his piece in, the artist might get acomment l ike, " this suggests Chinabecause there is a dragon in it," said Mr.Krinsky.He returns and gets another commentlike, "it's fine, but this part here we don' t 'like, so do it over again, "continued Mr.Krinsky, saying this procedure contu v

Anatole Krinskyues until the censored work has finallymet the approval of the committee.Messrs. Krinsky and Siniavin werevictims of a 1976 purge which saw up to100 of the brightes t S oviet artist s fallfrom grace. In Mr. Siniavin's case hewas simply told to leave or face arrest.This followed a period of harrasme nt,firings, house arrest and a 10-day prisonstint for allegedly assau lting a militiaman. Mr. Sinivian was subjected to thisfor his role in organizing exhibits of"non-conformist art."Mr . Krinsky had app lied for an. exitvisa and was promptly fired from hisj ob . His unemployment lasted s ixmonths until he was finally allowed toleave.Messrs. Krinsky and Siniavin are just

Igor Siniavintwo members of a community about 40dissident artists currently living in NewYork. Another 30 live in Paris.The artists say the 1976 purge followed two years of relative liberalizationwhich resulted from the bad publicitythe Soviet government received following a part icularly heavy-handedshow of repression in 1974 when Sovietauthorities bulldozed an outdoor exhibit of modernist art in Moscow.Unfortunately for them, the eventwas witnessed by Western reporters andsubsequently played up in the Westernpress.According to Mr. Krinsky, the Moscow exhibit was "a planned provocationby artists" who wanted to get theirmessage across to the West.

Neither Mr. Krinsky nor Mr. Siniavin participatd in that particular exhibit, but they did in many others like itacross the Soviet Union.During the l iberal izat ion periodmany more exhibits were held. At oneexhibit in Moscow in 1975 people stoodin line for three hours in order to view

the w orks of 165 dissident a rtists, saidMr. Krinsky.Eventually, though, the authoritiesfigured the best way to solve the problem was to get rid of the troub lemakers. `V "They thought, weltr-we won't havethem, but at least, they won't botherus," Mr. Krinsky said. 'Both artists were born in 1937 - Mr.Krinsky in the Ukrainia n city of Khar-kiv and Mr. Siniavin in Leningrad.Both are modernists, Mr. Krinsky'swork shows a cubist influence, Mr.Siniavin's work is abstract.Although it was the clash between themodernist and socialist-realist schools

which ca used the initial conflict between artists and the state, Mr. Siniavirfeels that particular aspect of it may bedrawing to a close. This does not ,however, mean artistic Jreedom, headded."The authorities thought modernismwas impossible to control, but latelythey have seen that it can be used, forpropaganda purposes," he said.Which brings to mind another popular anecdote."Did you see any abstract painters inthe Soviet Union?"Oh yes, I saw one. And there weretwo socialist realists following him inplainclothes."

Fifth Ukrainian street fairto be held in New York

Concordia students hold Ukrainian WeekNEW YORK, NY. - The fifthannua l U krainian Street Fair will takeplace on East Seventh Street, betweenSecond and Third avenues here, onMay 16, 17 and 18.This festival has become a traditionalcultural event in the sect ion of theLower East Side which has come to beknow n as "Little Uk raine" as a result ofthe many Ukrainian shops, restaurantsand other businesses located in the

vicinity.. Con tinuou s live entertainment will beprovided throughout the three days andnights. Singers, dancers and musicianswill perform on an outdoor stage whilecrowds mill throug h the various exhi

bits of Ukrainian art, such as pysanky,ceramics and beautifully embroideredtowels and pillows. Many of the exhibited items will be offered for sale.Homemade Ukrainian food, including varenyky, holubtsi and variouscakes and pastries will also be available.The fest ival is sponsored by St .George Ukrainian Catholic Church, thelargest Ukrainian parish in America.

All proceeds of the festival benefit thechurch.Festivals hours are: Friday, May 16 4 p.m.-l 1 p.m.; Saturday, May 17 -11 a.rn.-l a.m.; S unday , May 18 1p.m.- p .m. Admission is free.

April 3 0 is dead l i ne for U0L scholarsh ipALIQ UIPP A, Pa. - The UkrainianOrthodox League of the United Statesof America has announced that thedeadline for applications for the 1980Lynn Sawchuk-Sharon Kuzbyt Memorial Scholarship is April 30.The criteria by which the applicantswill be considered are: performance as a

member o f a jun io r UOL chap te r ,se rv ice to the Ukra in ian Or thodoxChurch, academic performance in highschool, involvement in extracurricularand civic activities, and moral character.The first Sawchuk-Kuzbyt memorialscholarship was awarded during the

29th UOL Convention in 1976.The scholarship was established inhonor of Miss Sawchuk who died in1974 an d M iss K uzbyt wh o died in 1975.Both were active members of the league.Miss Sawchuk was president of the St.Vladimir Junior UOL chapter in Philadelphia, Pa., and Miss Kuzbyt waspresident of the Holy Ascension juniorchapter in Clifton, N.J.For further information about thescholarship contact: Dr. Stephen Sivu-lich, chairman of the scholarship committee, 529 Redfern Lane, Bethlehem,Pa. 18017.

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MON TREA L, Que. - Ukrainianstudents at Concordia University heresponsored a weeklong Ukrainian program at the university February 11-15.The official opening of UkrainianWeek was held on Monday, February11, with the unveiling of an exhibit ofart, ceramics, woodwork, embroidery,pysanky, literature, stam ps and coins ofthe Ukrainian National Republic anddissident l i terature. Visi tor

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