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Madrid Conference reconvenes U.N. demonstration honors

MADRID - The Madrid Confe­ mit the signatory states to allow their
rence to review implementation of the citizens to form free trade unions and to Ukrainian Helsinki Group
197S Helsinki Accords on European freely monitor compliance with the
,,jtion resumed here on Novem-
І9 with Western states, making
demands on the Soviet bloc to
accept free trade unions and therightto
political self-determination, reported
The New York Times.
The conference, which first convened
in November 1980, had been in recess
since last March. Its purpose is to
review compliance with the accords'
provisions since the last review meeting
held in Belgrade in 1977. Thirty-five
states, including the Soviet Union and
the United "States, signed the original
agreement.
A list of suggestions that appeared to
be both an effort to bridge the gap
between Western Europe and the United
States and a response to the situation in
Poland was put forward by the 10 states
of the European Economic Community.
Thomas Rechnagel, the Danish dele­
gate to the conference, said that the
EEC states felt a need to respond to
-the aFdlffibiriast month of the Soli­
darity Polish union, to Moscow's elimi­
nation of direct-dial overseas telephone
connections and to the Soviet reduction
of emigration permits.
The Western proposals would com­
human-rights provisions of the Helsinki
Final Act. Since the March recess,
members of the Moscow Helsinki
Group who remained free announced
they were disbanding the committee due
to official harassment.. In addition,
most members of monitoring groups in
other Soviet republics, including U-
kraine, are either imprisoned, doing
forced labor or in internal exile.
The new proposals would also insert
into a concluding document criticism of
"actions hindering the effective exercise
of the right of all peoples to determine,
in full freedom, their internal and
external political status and to pursue as
they wish their political, economic,
social and cultural development," the
Times said.
When the conference adjourned on
March 12, the U.S. delegation, led by
Max M. Kampelman, insisted that the
declaration of martial law in Poland
had made "business as usual "impossible
at the Madrid meeting. In an address to
the conference one month prior to the
adjournment, then-Secretary of State
Alexander Haig implied that the "mas­
sive violations"of theaccords engendered
(Continued on page 11)

Leonid Brezhnev dead at 75

MOSCOW - Soviet President
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, who led the
country for the last 18 years, died
suddenly here on November 10 at
approximately 8 a.m. Moscow time. He
was 75.
Although the official announcement
of Mr. Brezhnev's death was not made
until the next day at 11 a.m. (Moscow
time), Soviet television abruptly re­
placed normal programming in the
evening of November 10 with classical
music, a common practice when a
member of the leadership dies.
Because there is no clear front-runner
in the battle to succeed Mr. Brezhnev,
most experts feel that some kind of
temporary collective leadership will be
established. In addition to being general
secretary of the Communist Party, Mr.
Brezhnev was also the chairman of the
Council of Ministers (premier) and
chairman of the Politburo (president).
Hie Brezhnev years
Mr. Brezhnev came to power in
October 1964 following the ouster of
Nikita Khrushchev. At first, as general
secretary of the Communist Party, he
shared power with Premier Alexei
Kosygin and President Nikolai Pod-
gorny. But he eventually consolidated
his rule, first assuming the title of
premier and later, in 1977, becoming
president as well.
The first eight years of the Brezhnev
era were marked by severe repression of
dissidents, the strengthening of the
Soviet military, a marked improvement
in Soviet living standards due partly to a
marked decentralization of industry,
and tightening of Soviet control over
the Warsaw Pact countries — the
"Brezhnev Doctrine"— which culmi­
nated with the invasion of Czechoslo­
vakia in 1968 to squelch the liberaliza­
tion process under Alexander Dubcek.
By the early 1970s, however, the
Soviet economy began to falter, and
following a disastrous grain harvest in
1972, the Soviet Union was forced to
contract huge wheat purchases from the
West.
Perhaps Mr. Brezhnev's major diplo­
matic triumph of the early 1970s was the
establishment of detente, highlighted by
President Richard' Nixon's visit to the
USSR in 1972 and the signing of the
SALT I strategic arms agreement. Mr.
Brezhnev visited the United States in
1973, and hosted Mr. Nixon on his
return visit in 1974y
The early 1970s were also marked by
a new clamp-down on domestic dissent,
with mass arrests of activists, parti­
cularly in Ukraine. , President Ronald Reagan, which de­
(Continued on pa(e 13)
Gen. Petro Grigorenko addresses demonstrators.
by Marts Kolomayets
NEW YORK - Petro Grigorenko
and Rep. Bill Green (R-N.Y.) were
among the speakers at a demonstration
held here on Tuesday, November 9, to
mark the sixth anniversary of the
founding of the Ukrainian Helsinki
Group. The demonstration also called
upon the Madrid Conference, which
reconvened on the same day, to demand
compliance with the Helsinki Final
Act's human-rights provisions.
According to police estimates, about
125 people attended the demonstration
held across the street from the United
Nations in Ralph J. Bunche Park.
The demonstration, organized by
members of the External Representa­
tion of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group
and an ad hoc planning committee, was
inspired by the proclamation signed by
clared November 9 a day in tribute to
George Zi гуску
the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. His
proclamation came on the recommen­
dation of both houses of the U.S.
Congress, which passed a concurrent
resolution in June, confirming that the
Soviet Union continues to violate
national and human rights in Ukraine.
The program, which began 20 minutes
past noon, was conducted by Albert
Kipa, a member of the planning com­
mittee, who also served as interpreter
for three former dissidents who spoke at
the demonstration. The program com­
menced with a prayer delivered by the
Rev. Sebastian Shewchuk of St. George
Ukrainian Catholic Church in New
York.
Remarking that "it is no accident of
fate that this day, the anniversary of the
founding of the Ukrainian Helsinki
Group is also the same day the CSCE
meeting reconvenes in Madrid," Dr.
Kipa read the proclamation signed by
(Continued on pa(e 4)
 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1982 No. 46

Ukrainian Helsinki monitors: members of the camp-based group

NAME: Sviatoslav Karavansky by Nadia Svitlychna
BORN: 1920
OCCUPATION: poet, journalist In early May 1979, the information
1 .MARITAL STATUS: married to Nina bulletin USSR News Brief, edited by
-Strokata Cronid Lubarsky, released the follow­
і itjTEST ARREST: 1965 (forced to ing news under the headline "Helsinki
sesve remainder of previous sentence) Group in Mordovian Camp": "A new
' ,C||ARGE: probably "anti-Soviet agi- Helsinki group has been formed in the
"Cation and propaganda" special-regimen political camp in the
SENTENCE: nine years of previous town of Sosnovka, Mordovian ASSR..."
- -term; eight years' prison and labor camp The group was composed of Lev
fifcO) Lukianenko and'Oleksiy Tykhy, both
' PREVIOUS TERM: 1945-60 members of the Ukrainian Public
fURRENT STATUS: In 1979, Mr. Group to Promote Implementation of
Karavansky and his wife were allowed the Helsinki Accords; Balys Gajauskas,
to emigrate from the Soviet Union. who later joined the Lithuanian Hel­
sinki Group; and Ukrainian Bohdan
Rebryk. Others members were Edward
NAME: Oksana Popovych Kuznetsov, a member of the Moscow
BORN: January 30, 1928 Helsinki Group, and Aleksandr Ginz-
OCCUPATION: worker burg (until their emigration from the
MARITAL STATUS: unmarried USSR in April 1979),as well as the Rev.
LATEST ARREST: October 28, 1974 Vasyl Romaniuk (until he began his
CHARGE: "anti-Soviet agitation and term of internal exile in 1979).
propaganda"
The group released three documents.
SENTENCE: eight years in a labor The first covered the topic of the
camp; five years' exile death penalty. The group reported that
PREVIOUS TERM: 1944-54 in each of three small oblasts - the
RELEASE DATE: 1987 Brianska, Kaluzhskaya and Zhy-
MOTHER'S ADDRESS: tomyrska oblast — five to six persons
Olena Popovych each year are given the death penalty.
Ukrainian SSR The group said it knew the names of 20
m. Ivano-Frankivske persons who died in this manner
vul. Pavlika Morozova 15, kv. 1 between 1976 and 1978. If these figures
are applied to the entire USSR in
NAME: Bohdan Rebryk proportion to the population, this yields
BORN: June 30, 1938 a number of 1,300 deaths per year.
OCCUPATION: teacher The group's second document stress­
MARITAL STATUS: divorced, one ed the necessity of combining political
daughter and military disengagement and of
LATEST ARREST: May 23, 1974 abolishing compulsory military service
CHARGE: "anti-Soviet slander" in countries where this has not yet been
SENTENCE: seven years in a labor done.
camp; three years' exile The third document dealt' with the
PREVIOUS TERM: 1967-70 persecution of religious believers in the
RELEASE DATE: 1984 camps: the prohibition against perform­
EXILE ADDRESS: ing religious rites and the confiscation
474230 of crosses, yarmulkes, religious litera­
Kazakhskaya SSR ture, letters on religious topics, etc.
Tselinohradskaya oblast I do not know if these documents
Kurhaldzinsky raion reached the West. But, in the following
pos. Kenbidaik year, 1980, via samvydav channels, the
Western press received copies of other
NAME: Yuriy Shukhevych documents of the Camp Helsinki Group,
BORN: March 28, 1934 as this group is commonly called. (Its
OCCUPATION: worker full name is the Group to Promote
MARITAL STATUS: married, two Implementation of the Helsinki Ac­
children cords in Places of Deprivation of
LATEST ARREST: March 1972 Freedom.) These documents, according
CHARGE: "anti-Soviet agitation and to press releases of the Ukrainian
propaganda" Supreme Liberation Council (abroad),
SENTENCE: 10 years in a labor camp; were published by Ukrainian news­
five years' exile papers in the West in April and May
PREVIOUS TERMS: 1948-56, 1956- 1980.
58, 1958-68 These documents included the follow­
RELEASE DATE: 1987 ing memoranda and appeals:
WIFE'S ADDRESS: 1. "A warning to the West" - a
Valentyna Trotsenko memorandum addressed to the leaders
400026 and parliaments of governments signa­
g. Volgograd
ul. Fadieyeva 6, kv. 30
tory to the Helsinki Accords. It was
signed by members of the Group to
Promote Implementation of the Hel­
sinki Accords in Places of Deprivation
. of Freedom, Mykola Rudenko, Mr.
Rebryk, Danylo Shumuk, and victims
of the genocide against dissent Yuriy
Shukhevych, Vladimir Balakhonov...
Mikhail Kazachkov, Anatoly Shcha-
ransky. (See Svoboda, April 26, 1980;
The Weekly, May 18, 1980.)
2. "Soviet prisoners recommend the
creation of a judicial organ for the
implementation of provisions of the
Helsinki Final Act" - a memorandum
addressed to all nations, parliaments
and governments of the states partici­
pating in the Helsinki Conference. It
was signed by members of the camp
group Messrs. Gajauskas, Ginz-
burg, Kuznetsov, Rebryk, Rudenko
and Shumuk. (See Svoboda, April 24,
1980; The Weekly, June I, 1980.)
3. "Medical treatment in places of
deprivation of freedom is a mockery of
human dignity" — an appeal addressed
to the president of Amnesty Interna­
tional (with a copy to the vice president
of the International League for Human
Rights, Andrei Sakharov). It was signed
by Messrs. Gajauskas, Ginzburg,
Sviatoslav Karavansky, Kuznetsov,
Rebryk, Rudenko and Shumuk. (See
The Weekly, May 11, 1980.)
As we see from the above, the
composition of the camp group changed
somewhat, and it was not limited to
prisoners of the Sosnovka special-
regimen camp. Mr. Rudenko, for
example, at that time was incarcerated
in the town of Barashevo, Mordovian
ASSR.
In May-June 1980 Ukrainian
newspapers in the West re­
ported on a document that had
been prepared a year earlier by mem­
bers of the Group to Promote Imple­
mentation of the Helsinki Accords in
Places of Deprivation of Freedom —
Mr. Gajauskas, Mr. Ginzburg, Razmik
Zohrabian, Mr. Kazakchkov, Oksana
Popovych, the Rev. Romaniuk, Mr.
Rudenko, Iryna Senyk, Mr. Shukhe­
vych and Mr. Shcharansky —
under the title "The government of the
USSR is an occupational administra­
tion of collaborators,' say Soviet politi­
cal prisoners; new mandates for the
WCFU" (World Congress of Free
Ukrainians). (See Svoboda, May 22,
1980; The Weekly, June 8, 1980.)
Political prisoners of various na­
tionalities act in solidarity in the camps
and defend their rights before the
administration and the government —
and not only within the framework of
the Camp Helsinki Group. Recently,
many joint documents from the camps
(Continued on page 13)

NAME: Danylo Shumuk

BORN: January 30, 1914
OCCUPATION: worker, writer
MARITAL STATUS: separated, two
Ukrainian WeeHV
FOUNDED 1933
children
LATEST ARREST: January 12, 1972 Ukrainian weekly newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal
CHARGE: "anti-Soviet agitation and non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St, Jersey City, NJ. 07302.
propaganda" (The Ukrainian Weekly - USPS 570470)
SENTENCE: 10 years in a labor camp; Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper.
five years' exile
PREVIOUS TERMS: 1935-39, 1945- The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA:
55, 1957-67 (201) 434-0237,434-0807 (201) 451-2200
RELEASE DATE: 1987 (212) 227-4125 (212) 227-5250
EXILE ADDRESS: Yearly subscription rate: S8, UNA members - |5.
Kazakhskaya SSR
Uralskaya oblast Postmaster, send address changes to:
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P.O. Box 346 Associate editor. George Bohdan Zarycky
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Boarding house, Rm. 1
No. 46
New book by former OS I staffer CIA report: 4 million Soviets at forced labor
accuses the OUN of Nazi collaboration report
WASHINGTON - A new CIA
WASHINGTON - In a just-pub­
lished book, John Loftus, a former
prosecutor of the Office of Special
Investigations, charged that the Organi­
zation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN)
was a collaborationist group which
made a "significant" contribution to the
German war effort, reported the Wash­
ington Post.
In the book, titled "The Belarus
Secret," Mr. Loftus wrote: "The secret
internal files of the OUN clearly show
how most of its members worked for the
Gestapo or SS as policemen, execu­
tioners, partisan hunters and municipal
officials."
He also reiterated charges, first made
last May on CBS's "60 Minutes/ that
the U.S. intelligence community re­
cruited alleged Byelorussian collabora­
tors in its Cold War operations.
For over two years, Mr. Loftus was a
prosecutor at OSI, a branch of the
Justice Department responsible for
finding and bringing to trial alleged
Nazis and collaborators living in the
United States. Most of the 28 persons
already brought to trial are from Eastern
Europe and the Soviet Baltic republics,
leading many emigre leaders to criticize
the OSI's use of Soviet-supplied evi­
dence and witnesses in the court pro­
ceedings.
Reached by The Weekly in his Wash­
ington office, Allan A. Ryan, director of
the OSI, said that Mr. Loftus no longer
has any connection with his office and
that he was probably "dribbling out
these charges" to promote sales of his
book.
Mr. Ryan, who had earlier dismissed
Mr. Loftus'saccusations concerning the
Byelorussians in a letter to "60Minutes"
and The New York Times, and again at
a recent meeting of the Ukrainian
American Bar Association, also said
that he does not plan to contact the Post
in this matter.
Freedom House wants monitoring groups
to be part of Helsinki review process
NEW YORK - Freedom House
proposed on November 8 that the
Helsinki Review Conference should
make voluntary "watch groups" a
formally recognized part of the Helsinki
review process. The conference recon­
vened in Madrid on November 9.
Most members of the five Helsinki
watch groups in the Soviet Union — the
Moscow, Ukrainian, Lithuanian,
Armenian and Georgian groups — and
others in Eastern Europe have been
harassed and imprisoned.
The United States delegation was
urged to propose that the conference
guarantee the right of non-govern­
mental watch committees to exist.
Under the proposal, countries would
guarantee the right of such groups to
exist, recruit and publicize the com­
pliance of their own and other govern­
ments with the Helsinki Accords ap­
proved in 1975.
The Freedom House executive com­
mittee, making the proposal, would
have the signatories agree to prevent the
imprisonment of watch-group members
or the creation of government-spon­
sored committees masking as indepen­
dent groups.
Such an agreement, said the state­
ment, would become an important part
of the Helsinki review process called for
in the 1975 accord. The first review was
THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY
The report estimated that under
made public on November 5 Stalin the camps reached a peak of
As to the OSI's stand on the OUN,
Mr. Ryan said that the OSI has no
official position on the OUN as a group,
noting that to date the only OUN
members who have been brought to
trial have been, accused of individual
acts of persecution against innocent
civilians.
In the book, Mr. Loftus cites a 1951
letter to the Immigration and Naturali­
zation Service by the late Frank Wisner,
identified in the book' as a State
Department official, who wrote that
"the main activites of the OUN in
Ukraine cannot be considered detri­
mental to the United States."
Mr. Loftus called Mr. Wisner's
account "a complete fabrication," and
accused him of recruiting anti-Commu­
nist collaborators to help U.S. intelli­
' gence efforts after World War II.
Mr. Loftus said that despite Mr.
Wisner's efforts, his organization was so
effectively penetrated by Soviet spies
that many of them lost their lives in the
Soviet Union or were unmasked as
American agents in Soviet radio broad­
casts.
"Soviet intelligence had penetrated
every corner of the Byelorussian net­
work," wrote Mr. Loftus, "The Byelo­
russians and the Ukrainian OUN were
all riddled with Soviet agents."
The book, published by Alfred A.
Knopf, should soon be available at most
major bookstores.
Several Ukrainian community repre­
sentatives have urged Ukrainians not to
buy the book, SUSTA, the national
Ukrainian student organization in the
United States, had indicated that it
plans to contact students suggesting
that they hot buy the book, the reason­
ing being that Ukrainians should not
help boost sales of the book. Spokes­
men for the group also said that they
plan to send excerpts of the chapters
dealing with the OUN to its branches.
held in Belgrade in 1977-78. The second
review was recessed this summer after
18 months of debate. The meeting was
deadlocked after condemnation by
Americans and West Europeans of the
imposition of martial law in Poland last
December. The Western delegates said
they could not conduct "business as
usual" in the face of the Polish situa­
tion.
Freedom House, in November 1975,
first proposed the creation of Helsinki
watch groups in the West. Five unoffi­
cial committees in the Soviet Union and
similar groups in Poland, Czecho­
slovakia and other East European
countries were organized. In the United
States, there is the non-governmental
Helsinki Watch group as well as a watch
agency created by Congress that is
composed of representatives of the
executive branch as well as Congress.
Freedom House declared that its
proposal would strengthen the right of
peoples to "establish committees to
monitor the performance of their own
and other governments in the adherence
of international treaties." Such "peoples'
internationalism," said the statement,
could raise the standard of morality
among nations.
Freedom House, now in its 41st year
of existence,, monitors political. rights
and civil liberties around the world.
SUNDAY. NOVEMBER, Щ Щ 3
estimates that 4 million people in the perhaps 15 million persons in 1947, and
Soviet Union are compelled to work at after Stalin's death in 1953, the camps
some kind of "forced labor," 10,000 of were reduced in size, but the numbers
whom are said to be political prisoners, began to rise again in the 1960s.
reported The New York Times. Because the report deals with forms
The report was requested by Con­ of compulsory labor, it does not men­
gress last September when it asked the tion figures for persons in internal exile,
State Department to investigate charges a punitive measure which dictates where
that forced labor was being used to persons will live, usually in remote
build the controversial natural-gas eastern regions far from their original
pipeline from Siberia to Western homes.
Europe. What is significant about the current
Although the new study could not situation, the CIA report said, is the rise
substantiate reports that a large number in the use of convicts who are not
of inmates were being forced to work on confined and work off their sentences
the pipeline, the CIA estimated that 2 on specified construction sites.
million people were being confined, 85 "Given the worsening labor shortage
percent in forced-labor camps and the in parts of the Soviet Union, this
rest in prisons. It said there were more relatively efficient, flexible method of
than 1,100 such labor camps, or 200 deriving some economic benefit from an
more than in 1974. increasing crime rate is likely to con­
To complete the figure of 4 million, tinue to rise," it said.
the C'A said that 1.5 million convicts On the specific issue of the use of
have been given probation with "com­ penal labor in pipeline construction, the
pulsory involvement in labor," while report said that such workers have been
half a million have been paroled from "an integral part of pipeline construc­
confinement to perform forced labor tion work crews in Ukraine, Kazakhstan
for the remainder of their terms. and the central Russian republic." They
Although the CIA refused to disclose are mainly paroleesand probationers and
how it arrived at its estimates, it has have been used in clearing forests,
been reported that satellite photos have draining swamps and preparing roads,
been used to pinpoint labor camps, and the report said.
interviews with former inmates have The study said that, in view of the
provided information. (Continued on page 13)
Catholic,, Orthodox hierarchs ask
U.S. to defend Churches in Ukraine
JERSEY CITY; B J i - H t U e beads of Resolution 18 and the House Con­
the Ukrainian Orthodox and Ukrainian gressional Resolution 123 of the 97th
Catholic Churches in the United States, Congress titled: "To seek the resur­
in a November 4 letter, appealed to rection of the national churches in
President Ronald Reagan to exert Ukraine." We appeal to you, Mr.
influence on the Soviet government President, in all earnestness and prayer,
"that it permit the renewal of the to implement this resolution in the
Ukrainian Orthodox and Ukrainian name of justice and human rights with
Catholic Churches in Ukraine." all haste wherever this is possible.
Archbishop-Metropolitan Mstyslav The Ukrainian Orthodox and Ukrai­
Skrypnyk of the Ukrainian Orthodox nian Catholic Churches operate freely
Church and Archbishop-Metropolitan and flourish in all countries of the free
Stephen Sulyk of the Ukrainian Ca­ world, whereas in Ukraine they were
tholic Church expressed appreciation forcefully absorbed into the Russian
for the passage of Senate Resolution 18 Orthodox Church. Their bishops and
and House Resolution 123, which call priests were either arrested or liqui­
for the resurrection of national Churches dated. Thus, these churches can exist
in Ukraine. but in the underground with the threat
They went on to ask President Rea­ of persecution and arrest of their
gan "to implement this resolution in the faithful adherents ever imminent.
name of justice and human rights with We ask you, Mr. President, to do all
all haste wherever this is possible." in your power and exert influence on the
The full text of the letter follows. government of the USSR that it permit
the renewal of the Ukrainian Orthodox
and Ukrainian Catholic Churches in
Ukraine as well as in other Communist
Dear Mr. President: states.
We, the undersigned spiritual heads We shall be eternally grateful for all
of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and your help and intervention in this
the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the matter.
United States of America, wish to With sentiments of the highest
express our heartfelt thanks to you for esteem, we remain.
the approval of Senate Congressional Devotedly in the Lord.
Economist offers HURI famine data
WASHINGTON - A top U.S. go­ most scholarly work to date on the
vernment agricultural economist has famine.
volunteered his collection of informa­
tion on the Ukrainian famine of 1932-33 Though he found it impossible to
for possible use in the Harvard Ukrai­ continue his studies of the Ukrainian
nian Research Institute/Ukrainian famine because of other pressing duties,
National Association-sponsored mono­ Dr. DaJrymple had maintained a note­
graph on that topic. book of further English-language refe­
Dr. Dana Dairymple is the author of rence on the famine. It is this notebook
a two-part article, "The Soviet Famine that he has offered to lend to Prof.
of 1932-34," which appeared in the Robert Conquest and his junior colla­
British journal Soviet Studies (No. 3, borator, Dr. James Mace, who are
1964 and No. 4,1965). The article is the working on the famine monograph.
 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY
Providence Association to mark 70th
with New York liturgy, luncheon
NEW YORK - The Providence
Association of Ukrainian Catholics in
America will mark the 70th anniver-
sary of its founding in New York on
Sunday, November 21.
The day's events will begin at noon
with a special divine liturgy and memo-
rial service for deceased Providence
members at St. George Ukrainian
Catholic Church.
A jubilee luncheon will follow in the
St. George School auditorium. The
program will include greetings from
Ukrainian Catholic hierarchs, addresses
by Ivan Bazarko in Ukrainian and
Stepan Jarema in English, remini-
scences of Providence pioneers and
U.N. demonstration...
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President Reagan. Copies of the procla-
mation, as well as materials on the
Ukrainian Helsinki Group, including
the November 7 special issue of The
Weekly, were available for participants
of the demonstration and curious
passers-by. Large, poster-size proclama-
tions were also on display.
lrena Kurowycky of the Ukrainian
National Women's League of America
introduced the first official speaker of
the demonstration, Rep. Green, who
initiated a letter in Congress urging the
Soviet government to release Zinoviy
Krasivsky. He spoke about the need for
a continued struggle for human rights.
We "bear witness that the Soviets have
treated the Helsinki agreement as a
scrap of paper," he said, and we must
constantly question their position on
human rights.
Rep. Green said that he was honored
by the fact that he had been asked to
speak at the same demonstration as one
of the great heroes of the 20th century,
Gen. Grigorenko, a former Red Army
officer-turned-dissident.
Rep. Green greeted the general with a
warm handshake and a smile as the
general made his way to the micro-
phone. Rising slowly with the support
of a cane, the general who is one of the
founding members of the Ukrainian
and Moscow Helsinki groups, began his
Ukrainian-language remarks by saying
that "this is indeed a great and joyous
day, not only for the Ukrainian Helsinki
Group, but for all Soviet Helsinki
groups." Touching upon past events in
the history of the Ukrainian people,
Gen. Grigorenko remembered with
tears welling up in his eyes the famine of
50 years ago, when "Ukrainian peasants
were being exterminated by the millions
and not one voice was raised in their
defense. No one knew that a nation like
Ukraine even existed," he said.
Forty years ago, the struggle for
national independence in Ukraine was
simply not heard of around the world,
he added. Those who wished to escape
the USSR had to deny their existence as
Ukrainians; they had to present them-
selves as members of different nationali-
ties, he continued, his voice choked with
emotion.
But this is no longer true, he added,
and for this we have to thank my dear
friends , whose portraits are hanging on
the staircase. The staircase, near the
Isaiah Wall, is known as the Shcharansky
Steps. It was hung with portraits of Vasyl
Sichko, Mykola Matusevych, Oles
Berdnyk, Lev Lukianenko, Mykola
Horbal, Petro Sichko and Myroslav
Marynovych. Representatives of the
UNWLA and Plast held portraits of
artistic performances.
The Providence Association was
established in 1912 under the patronage
of the first Ukrainian Catholic bishop in
America, Soter Ortynsky. The first
branch founded was St. Michael the
Archangel Branch of New York
City.
Among those expected to participate
in the jubilee celebrations are Arch-
bishop-Metropolitan Stephen Suiyk,
Bishop Basil Losten of Stamford,
Conn., and Auxiliary Bishop Robert
Moskal of Philadelphia. Members of
the Providence executive board, headed
by its president, Msgr. Stephen Chomko,
will attend.
Ivan Svitlychny, Mykola Rudenko and
Vasyl Stus.
Gen. Grigorenko, 75, went on to say
that although these dissidents cannot be
here today because they are incarce-
rated, they continue their struggle for
human rights. He also thanked the
Ukrainians in the United States espe-
cially members of Americans for
Human Rights in Ukraine, who
carry on their work silently, yet per-
sistently, writing letters, holding dis-
cussions with government officials and
putting in, time and effort toward the
human-rights cause.
Gen. Grigorenko proceeded to talk
about the Madrid Conference. He said
that this meeting should not accept
anything less than the immediate release
of all members of Helsinki groups from
Soviet prisons and the guarantee that
the human-rights groups can exist freely
in the Soviet Union. These proposals
have been sent to the Madrid Confe-
rence through the U.S. delegation, he
said.
He added that on this sixth anniver-
sary of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group
the group had issued its own statement
dedicated to the nationality question,
which states that the Soviet Union does
not have the right to limit Ukraine
within its own borders.
Throughout the demonstration,
to the left of the speakers' microphone,
a group of six Ukrainian girls, dressed
in historic costumes of the Kievan Rus'
period, surrounded a girl dressed in
black, who symbolized oppressed U-
kraine.
They sat on the obelisk platform, and
above them stood two young men
holding a green and gold felt banner
with the words "Free Ukrainian Politi-
Demonstrators assemble before makeshift podium.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1982
Church music conference planned
TORONTO — A conference on
Ukrainian Church music, sponsored by
the secretariat of the Central Jubilee
Committee for the celebration of the
millennium of Christianity in Ukraine,
will be held here on November 30-
December 2.
The secretariat has invited all music
professionals, directors of church choirs,
cantors, singers with advanced training
and priests who specialize in church
music to attend this conference, which
will try to organize all Ukrainian
Church music professionals.
Other topics to be discussed at the
conference include: making various
collections and pieces of Church music
available to these professionals, com-
piling a catalogue of all available
Church music, creating a coordinating
committee, diseasing the possibility of
cal Prisoners."
Habid Mayer, a representative of the
freedom fighters of Afghanistan, was
the next speaker at the demonstration
program. He stressed the need to work
together and the importance of captive
nations working together around the
clock until they could "shake commu-
nism and return to a free homeland."
Piotr Naimski, a representative of the
Committee in Support of Solidarity in
New York, saw the Helsinki Accords as
the final step in one era of European
history. He said it has been proven that
the Helsinki agreement doesn't work; it
has been proven in Afghanistan, Po-
land, Lithuania and Ukraine. Instead,
he said, "we need a different, new
approach in East-West relations in
order to achieve our human-rights
goals."
Ludmilla Alekseeva, who is the head
of the Moscow Helsinki Group's official
representation abroad, spoke in Russian
about the suffering the Ukrainian
Helsinki Group has experienced. She
said that the Moscow and Ukrainian
groups had worked together in the
human-rights struggle. She said she
firmly believes that if a people has the will
to be free, it will finally achieve freedom.
Also speaking in Russian, Aishe
Seitmuratova, a Crimean Tatar and
former dissident, praised Ukrainians she
had known in the Soviet Union. She
said that the Ukrainian Helsinki Group
had helped the Crimean Tatars who did
not have food and could not work
because of the laws the Soviet govern-
ment had inflicted upon them.
Ludmilla Thome, a representative
from Freedom House, a non-partisan
national organization devoted to the
strengthening of free societies, agreed
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a living library of records and tapes,
planning seminars and summer courses on
Church music, and organizing educa-
tional radio programs.
The conference is also organized to
encourage composers to write works for
the millennium celebration, to plan
concerts and shows for the celebration,
to inspire the teaching of the history and
development of Church music and to
further the teaching of the spiritual
value of Ukrainian Church music.
The conference sessions will be held
in the parish hall of the Church of the
Holy Eucharist, 515 Broadview Ave.,
Toronto. Registration for the confe-
rence must be made by November 20, by
writing to the Rev. Frank Shadiak, 515
Broadview Ave., Toronto, Ont., Canada
M4K 2N6.
with Gen. Grigorenko that the day was
indeed a great and joyous one, but
added that it was also a sad day because
today over 50 members of various
Helsinki Groups sit in prisons or in
exile. Twenty-three of them are Ukrai-
nians. It is also a remarkable day, she
added, because in spite of this, the
struggle for human rights will continue.
She stressed that two important de-
mands must be made on the Madrid
Conference. These are: the demand
that all Helsinki monitors be released
and that the Helsinki groups may exist
in the Soviet Union and around the
world and continue their work. She
added that on the eve of the reconven-
ing of the Madrid Conference Freedom
House issued a position paper listing its
recommendations for the review meet-
ing.
Mary V. Beck, former president of the
Detroit City Council, was the last
speaker of the hour-and-a-half demon-
stration. She, too, stressed the impor-
tance of freedom and the spirit of the
members of the Helsinki Group, whom
she called freedom fighters.
At the close of the demonstration,
Dr. Kipa thanked President Reagan for
acting on behalf of the Ukrainian
Helsinki Group and marking the day
with a proclamation. William Bahrey,
the president of the Ukrainian Evangeli-
cal Alliance of North America, closed
the demonstration program with a
prayer.
Among the participants present at the
demonstration were Nadia Svitlychna,
a member of the External Representa-
tion of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group,
and Victor Borovsky, a former Soviet
political prisoner.
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Art notes
Toronto art exhibit will feature works
by four recent emigres from Ukraine
by Daria Darewych
TORONTO - Volodymyr Maka-
renko, Vitalij Sazonov, Anton Solo-
mukha and Volodymyr Strelnikov are
four notable Ukrainian artists who have
been allowed to emigrate or havefledto
the West and presently reside in Europe.
Although they gained a reputation in
the Soviet Union, they could not attain
official recognition of their art in
Ukraine because of the repressive
atmosphere and hostile creative envi­
ronment. As a result of numerous
unofficial exhibitions, they became well
known as non-conformist artists from
Ukraine.
The first North American group
exhibition of these newly arrived artists
from Ukraine will be held in Toronto on
November 14 through 27. The exhibit
will then travel to Winnipeg where it
will be on display December 4 through
January 15, and to Chicago from
February 18 through March 30.
In December 1975, three of them,
Messrs. Makarenko, Sazonov and
Strelnikov together with Feodoziy
Humeniuk organized the first group
exhibition of Ukrainian non-confor­
mist artists in the apartment of an art
collector in Moscow. Two Ukrainian
women artists, N. Pavlenko
and L. Yastrub also participated. This
exhibit was well-received by art lovers
and brought the artists to the attention
of the Western press. A second group
exhibit was held in March 1976. This
time 15 Ukrainian non-conformist
artists participated; . -.
An exhibition of "Contemporary Art
from Ukraine" was held in 1979 in
Munich and London which included
the works of 20 artists among them
Messrs. Makarenko, Sazonov, Solo-
mukha and Strelnikov. The catalogue
published in conjunction with this
exhibit included reproductions of paint­
Volodymyr Makarenko's "Kozak Mamay.
THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY
ings by all four artists. Mr. Solomukha
was art editor of the catalogue. In 1980
this exhibition was repeated in New
York, Philadelphia, Washington and
Cleveland.
At this time Messrs. Solomukha and
Strelnikov were already in the West.
Messrs. Sazonov and Makarenko were
allowed to leave the Soviet Union
shortly thereafter. This happy coinci­
dence made it possible to arrange a
group exhibition of their work in
October of this year at La Maison de la
Culture de Metz in France.
In the short time these artists have
spent in Western Europe, all four have
participated in numerous group and
one-man shows.
Mr. Makarenko was born in 1943 in
the village of Novo-Pushkarivka near
the city of Dnipropetrovske. He studied
at the Art School of Dnipropetrovske
and the Mukhina Institute of Applied
Arts in Leningrad from which he gra­
duated in 1969 with a diploma in
monumental art. That year he became a
member of the famous St. Petersburg
Group of Artists which became known
in the West as the Leningrad Group. In
1973 when Mr. Makarenko was forced
to leave Leningrad, he settled in Tallinn,
Estonia.
While in Tallinn, Mr. Makarenko
participated in numerous exhibits. In
1975 one of his works which was
accepted by the XI Biennale of Graphic
Arts in Ljuabliana, Yugoslavia, was
awarded first prize.
Mr. Makarenko's first solo exhibi­
tions were held in 1979 in Tallinn and
Paris. A catalogue of his watercolors
was published by the Hardy Gallery of
Paris.
Finally in 1980 Mr. Makarenko was
allowed to emigrate to the West. To­
gether with his wife and daughter he
settled in Paris. In 1982 he had one-man
shows in Paris, Stockholm and To-
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1982 5
шшшт
Volodymyr Strelrukov's "Prohulianka.
ronto. His triptych "Meditation" was reading of Wassily Kandinsky's "On
accepted by the "Ukrainian Artists the Spiritual in Art," after which he
International Exhibit" in Toronto in began to paint in an abstract manner. In
September 1982. 1975 he moved to Tartu, Estonia, where
Mr. Makarenko's next one-man he lived for a year before moving to
exhibit will be held at the Institute of Moscow. While in Moscow he partici­
Modern Art in Chicago in December. pated in numerous exhibits.
Mr. Sazonov was born in 1947 in In 1980 Mr. Sazonov was forced to
Siberia. He lived in western Ukraine emigrate to the West due to his involve­
and Crimea from 1952 to 1964 and then ment in demonstrations for freedom in
in Odessa until 1974. He studied at the art and literature. He has been living in
University of Odessa in the faculty of Germany since 1981.
history. Mr. Sazonov had a one-man show in
His interest in art began with the (Continued on pafe 12)
Lytvyn's art inspired by Ukraine
by Marts Korduba
JERSEY CITY, N.J. - The Ukrai­
nian art scene has a new energetic
addition to its ranks: Vitaliy Lytvyn.
This 45-year-old artist left Ukraine in
1979 and settled in Canada after spend­
ing eight months in Rome.
Mr. Lytvyn cites his "fresh impres­
sions" of Ukraine as the source of his
work's inspiration. Graduating from
the Lviv Institute of Decorative Arts in
1964, Mr. Lytvyn worked as an interior
and exterior designer in the city of
Rivno. At this time, he studied oil
painting, woodcutting and producing
works and stone, wood, metal and
mosaic.
Mr. Lytvyn's work gradually evolved
into a marriage of his two loves: history Vitaliy Lytvyn
and art. The artist's passion for Ukrai-
. nian history is illustrated in his prolific his wife and two daughters, divides his
series of oil paintings and woodcut time between historical research,
prints based on 17th, 18th and 19th painting and teaching. He founded
century historical events. an art school in Toronto for Ukrainian
"I strive for authenticity in my work," Canadian children, where he conducts
says Mr. Lytvyn, "and thoroughly weekly courses for approximately 15
researching my subject matter is essen­ students.
tial." Mr. Lytvyn relies on archaeolo­ A traveling art exhibit featuring art
gical findings and scholarly works to for and by children will tour Toronto,
recreate historical scenes. One of his New York and other major North
most extensive projects is a series of American cities began at the end of
prints, "Kozak Graves." and He has October. The exhibit includes the work
also created a series titled "Lisova of his students, as well as that of illustra­
Pisnia" based on the play by Lesia tors of children's books.
Ukrainka. What course will Mr. Lytvyn's work
Among his Clients are Ukrainian take, now that he has settled into the
organizations who have purchased his mainstream of Ukrainian Canadian
work to be displayed in their buildings. life?
"Part of my obligation as a Ukrainian "I will continue to incorporate Ukrai­
artist," said Mr. Lytvyn, "is to depict nian historical themes into my work. In
Ukrainian themes; to tell the history of Canada and the United States, it is
our people and to preserve our past especially important for artists to
through my work." convey our past to our children and to
Mr. Lytvyn has exhibited his work in share it with non-Ukrainians. I plan on
Toronto, Montreal, Baltimore, Phila­ dedicating work to the millennium of
delphia and, most recently, in the Ukrainian Christianity, and to themes
Ukrainian Literary and Cultural Club found in Shevchenko's works," he said.
in New York. He is known to narrate his "Children's education is very impor­
art shows, supplying the historical tant," he added "Art is the perfect vehicle
background of his work to observers. by which we can share our heritage with
The artist, who lives in Toronto with our children."
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Less is not always more The Washington Post
November 8
government certified the OUN as not
being in any way implicated with
Nazi collaboration. That certifica­
The November 9 demonstration in front of the United Nations to In a page 2 news story, "Nazi tion has never been challenged,
commemorate the sixth anniversary of the formation of the Ukrainian Collaborators Were Recruited as except by innuendo and smear tactics,
Helsinki Group in accordance with President Ronald Reagan's 'Asset,' " Washington Post staff mostly from the Soviet Union's
proclamation was noteworthy for two reasons — one good, the other writer Thomas OToole reports on a propaganda machine.
bad. recently published book, "The
The good thing was the timing. Not only was November 9 the Belarus Secret" by John Loftus, a WRITE TO: Letters Editor, The
anniversary of this Helsinki group, but it also marked thefirstday of the former prosecutor with the Justice Washington Post, 1150 15th St. NW,
Department's Office of Special In­ Washington, D.C. 20071.
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basis on which the group was formed. In addition, the fact that it was And while dealing with allegations with The Washington Post's om­
on a weekday rather than on a weekend afternoon ensured that there concerning U.S. recruitment of Nazi budsman by calling (202) 334-7582.
would be people there to see it, a point all too often missed by our collaborators from Byelorussia, the
community. book's author and the correspondent SEND COPIES TO: Howard
The unfortunate aspect was that there was little to see because few seriously implicate members of the Simons, managing editor; Thomas
people showed up to demonstrate. The sight of a small group of Organization of Ukrainian Nationa­ OToole, staff writer; as well as to
conscientious community members — many of them pensioners — lists, calling the OUN a strictly Kateryna C. Chumachenko, director,
huddled around a podium is not exactly an attention-grabber. The "Nazi-sponsored" organization. Ukrainian National Information
Mr. Loftus also states: "The secret Service, 810 18th St. NW, Washing­
only ones who probably did take notice were Soviet observers usually ton, D.C. 20006.
present at such gatherings, who were happy to report that the internal files of the OUN clearly
demonstration was small, muted and unlikely to get any media show how most of its members
worked for the Gestapo or SS as
attention. The New York Times
policemen, executioners, partisan
More to the point, the demonstration was inspired by the second September 4
hunters and municipal officials. The
presidential proclamation ever to deal with a specifically Ukrainian OUN contribution to the German
issue, and the iact that our community stayed away in droves could war effort was significant, including The following Action Item was
the raising of volunteers for several published in the October issue of
lead people in Washington to think (incorrectly, we hope) that its
SS divisions." ELTA Information Bulletin, which is
issuance, and the fates of such men as Mykola Rudenko and Yuriy sponsored by the Lithuanian Na­
Shukhevych, mean very little to the community. Or, at worse, it can be The article is simply a reiteration tional Foundation.
interpreted to mean that there really is no Ukrainian community as of the book's insinuations without One of the most influential news­
such, just a bunch of special-interest "political" factions out only for any apparent effort by the reporter to papers in the world, The New York
themselves. verify or question the legitimacy of Times, also has the sad distinction of
the book's allegations or the authen­ being regularly confused about the
Regardless of what one may think of the Helsinki Accords, the fact ticity of the author's facts, though
remains that most members of the Kiev-based Ukrainian Helsinki nationalities comprising the Soviet
Mr. Loftus's allegations have been, Union. In an article titled "U.S. and
Group, who come in every political stripe, are behind bars or in exile. discounted by the OSI director
The president has finally singled out this important group and its Soviet Editors Share Dream" (Sep­
himself. tember 4) Dudley Clendinen des­
members, vowing to work for their release. Inexcusably, but perhaps Curiously, though only four pages cribes a meeting of Soviet and Ame­
predictably, the community, save for some dedicated people, chose to of the 180-page book deal with rican editors on the campus of Colby
show its appreciation, its partriotism and its concern for Messrs. Ukrainians, the bulk of the Washing­ Sawyer College in New Hampshire.
Rudenko, Shukhevych and others, by staying home. ton Post article is about alleged
Ukrainian collaboration with the Throughout the article he refers to
Nazis. these editors interchangeably as
"Soviet" and "Russian," (though the
group included Lithuanians and
NYT: back to school? RECOMMENDED ACTION: Ukrainians). Such terminology is
gratuitous nonsense. By what stretch
Write to The Washington Post's of the imagination can Lithuanians
In a recent editorial on Averell Harriman's gift of Sll million to letters editor and raise, among others, or Ukrainians, Estonians or Arme­
Columbia University for a new Institute for the Advanced Study of the the following points: nians be transmogrified into "Rus­
Soviet Union, The New York Times, in praising the endowment, 1. Allan A. Ryan, director of the sians?" They are not Russians by
bemoaned the lack of Soviet specialists in government, noting that "we Office of Special Investigations, language, culture, nationality or
have done pitifully little to open our own minds" vis-a-vis the USSR. Department of Justice, in a letter to history. Neither are they citizens of a
The New York Times and to "60 state called "Russia," but of an entity
We agree, but before The Times casts stones, we suggest it look at its
Minutes" has refuted Mr. Loftus's called the "Union of Soviet Socialist
own policies in writing about the Soviet Union. Passim throughout the allegations that 300 Byelorussian Republics."
Harriman editorial, titled, interestingly enough, "Russian Lessons," Nazi collaborators are living in the
was the interchangeable use of the words "Russia" and "Soviet United States. Inquiries to The New York Times
Union." on this question have usually resulted
2. Since the Organization of Ukrai­ in the answer that such usage is
This should come as little surprise. In a November 3 editorial, titled, nian Nationalists (OUN) is a term permitted by the daily's style manual.
what else, "From Russia, with Worry," the Times wrote: "They don't used by a vast number of different Thus does absurdity become some­
have elections in the Soviet Union." Well, any school child knows they factions organized before, during times enshrined.
do. The problem is only one party is represented and party candidates and after World War II, Mr. Loftus's
ambiguous reference to the OUN as a Many of our readers regard this
run unopposed.
Moreover, it was a Times correspondent who 50 years ago wrote single entity indicates his total un- mixture of political and historic
familiarity with the subject matter. illiteracy and haughty righteousness
that he found no evidence of a famine when he travelled through as an affront to the millions of non-
3. It is a clear case of reverse neo- Russians in the USSR and to
"southern Russia." Maybe not, but the Ukrainian famine resulted in
McCarthyism to imply that anyone Americans of East European origin.
the deaths of some 7 to 10 million people in 1932-33. who fought against the Soviet Union We invite them to send a clipping bra
But can we expect more from a newspaper whose own correspon­ was automatically a Nazi. Members photocopy of this article to The New
dent, Anthony Austin, wrote in The New York Times Magazine in of the OUN, within the structure of York Times with a request for clarifi­
1981: "I speak of Russia and not the Soviet Union because Russia is Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) cation. Please share the replies with
different from its multinational dependencies, about which I know also fought bitterly against the Nazis us. The experience should be quite
little." and nobody implies that they were educational.
Mr. Austin is right, of course. Russia is different from the Soviet Communists. They, for example,
Union. But the fact that his editors apparently don't know it, and that were responsible for the 1943 assassi­
nation of Victor Lutze, a chief of WRITE TO: Seymour Toppuig,
Mr. Austin himself, who has had two "tours of duty" in the USSR, Nazi SS forces and one of Himmler's managing editor, The New York
knows little about the rest of the USSR, strongly suggests that when most trusted aides. In addition, there Times, 229 W. 43rd St., New York,
the new institute opens its doors, Times editors should be among the are a sufficient number of German N.Y. 10036.
first to enroll. After all, newspapers need to know about the USSR as documents in the possession of the SEND COPIES TO: Dudley Clen­
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No. 46
The Madrid Review Conference: an updated report
Twelfth semiannual report by the
president to the Commission on Secu­
rity and Cooperation in Europe on the
implementation of the Helsinki Final
Act, December 1.1981 to May 31,1982.
Conclusion
INFORMATION
The Helsinki Final Act signatories
agreed to facilitate freer and wider
dissemination of information of all
kinds, to encourage cooperation in the
field of information and exchange of
information with other countries, and
to improve the working conditions of
journalists.
Dissemination of information
The dissemination of all types of
information is under strict state control
in the Soviet Union and most of Eastern
Europe. The authorities there exert
control over the information available
to the public and have a powerful
censorship apparatus to ensure what is
published or broadcast conforms to
ideological standards established by the
government and the Communist Party.
As a general rule, information from
foreign sources is strictly limited and
controlled. Availability of Western
publications to ordinary people is very
limited and consists primarily of publi­
cations of pro-Soviet Western Commu­
nist parties. Some Western films are
shown on television or in movie theaters
in Eastern Europe and the Soviet
Union. Often, however, these seem
selected because they are innocuous or
portray life in the West in a negative
light. They are often edited to conform
to propaganda requirements. Contrary
to the final act's aim of freer dissemina­
tion of information, several East"Euro­
pean countries continue to jam Western
radio broadcasts.
Nonetheless, examination of indivi­
dual countries reveals a varied pattern
of adherence in practice to final act
principles on information.
In the Soviet Union, stringent censor­
ship is imposed on all sources of infor­
mation. Western magazines and news­
papers are unavailable to all but the
most privileged. The Soviet government
flaunts figures on the number of news­
papers printed, movies filmed and
books published but pointedly neglects
to mention that all are filtered through a
gigantic bureaucratic apparatus that
checks and rechecks their content and
whose goal is to deny the Soviet citizen
access to anything that contradicts or
casts doubt on official policy.
Unofficial (samizdat) publications,
produced without official authorization
or censorship, provide limited and
intermittent opportunity for free ex­
pression. The most important samizdat
journal, The Chronicle of Current
Events, has appeared since 1968 with
only one significant interruption. Des­
pite constant changes in editorial staff
due to threats, arrests and imprison­
ment, the Chronicle has maintained its
reputation for detailed accurate report­
ing.
Soviet authorities generally have
made persistent attempts to suppress
samizdat publications, but with limited
success. The government harasses those
associated with unofficial publications,
searches houses and offices, and confis­
cates writings. The authors of literary
and political samizdat materials have
been subject to such penalties as loss of
employment, internal exile, confine­
THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY
ment in labor camps and prisons, and
incarceration in mental hospitals.
Soviet policy on the free flow of
information remains repressive. Notable
since the imposition of martial law in
Poland has been the increasingly vitriolic
propaganda campaign in the Soviet
media, accusing the United States and
other Western countries of espionage
and subversion and suggesting that the
United States is making preparations
for another world war. These actions
certainly do not promote the climate of
confidence and respect among peoples
envisioned by the final act.
The availability of Western news­
papers and magazines continues to be
extremely restricted. A few Intourist
hotels make the International Herald
Tribune available to foreigners but keep
it under the counter. The U.S. Commu­
nist Party organ Daily World is the
most broadly distributed American
newspaper in the USSR; it is sold not
only in Intourist hotels but also in
kiosks in major cities. The sole non-
Communist U.S. publication on sale in
the USSR remains America Illustrated,
a USICA publication distributed under
bilateral agreement,, the distribution of
which is tightly controlled by the
authorities. Approximately one-sixth
of the copies delivered to the Soviet
distribution agency are returned as
"unsold" each month.
Despite constant fanfare in the Soviet
media about the wide availability of
foreign works in the USSR the average
citizen has only the most limited access
to contemporary American books and
periodicals. The situation is one of
severe restriction and censorship. Ame­
rican works published in the USSR go
through a rigorous and lengthy process
of censorship to ensure that only those
which do not conflict with the official
party, line ever reach the bookstands.
Contracts for publication are often
signed and translations are made for
works that never appear. Even those
which, do appear are printed in limited
editions. Subscriptions to American
journals and newspapers placed by
institutes are handled as "classified"
material. An individual Soviet citizen
cannot subscribe to" an American
periodical. Libraries that possess Ame­
rican books and periodicals keep them
in special collections to which, except
for literature, the general public has no
access.
The Soviet government's perfor­
mance on filmed and broadcast infor­
mation is abominable. According to the
Soviet film guide Movie Week, 18
American feature films were shown in
Moscow during this reporting period,
many of them with cuts and bowdlerized
dialogue. American television programs,
mainly animal shows, occasionally
appear on television. Sometimes they
are shown in their entirety and.some­
times clips are used as part of a Soviet
children's program.
The Soviet authorities continued to
control mail and telephone circuits to і choslovakia's generally poor perfor­
restrict, on a selective basis, contact mance in printed, film and broadcast is available to foreigners in Leipzig
between Soviet dissidents and citizens information during the reporting period. during the Leipzig spring and fall trade
of other countries. The Soviet govern­ No American publications are sold fairs.
ment jams Western radio broadcasts publicly in Czechoslovakia except for a
directed at the Soviet Union in clear few copies of the Dairy World which are U.S. magazines and scholarly journals,
violation of the provisions'of the'" seen on the newsstands irregularly.
Helsinki Final Act. Broadcasts jammed Occasionally, bestsellers such as Arthur them. Books by American publishers
include all Voice of America (VOA) Hailey's "Wheels" are translated and are not available. The GDR publishes a
transmissions in Russian and other printed in quantities always too limited limited number of titles (20 per year) by
USSR languages and Radio Liberty. to meet the public demand. In general, American authors both in English and
The English-language version of VOA books to be translated are chosen far German, but printings are small and the
is not jammed systematically. Jamming more' with an eye to the picture pre­ books are hard to obtain.
is heaviest around major population sented of American society (i.e., in
centers.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1 4 , 1 9 8 2 .
Bulgarian performance on printed,
the United States) than to the literary
film and broadcast information con­merit of the work in question. No
tinued unchanged aside from some American periodicals are available at
improvement in the number of Western
newsstands. University libraries general­
films shown during the reporting period.
ly only have a very limited collection of
.The pattern of selective Bulgarian non-
American literature, largely 19th and
cooperation with Western cultural early 20th century classics. The U.S.
center initiatives continues. Embassy has presented collections of
Bulgaria does not permit the open
American literature to the English
sale of Western periodicals except for
faculties of all five major universities.
occasional very small numbers of news­
These collections, however, are only
papers sold in hotels frequented bymade available to faculty members and
foreigners. During international con­
students majoring in English. The
ferences held in Bulgaria, West Euro­
embassy also subscribes to 43 American
pean major dailies are on sale in selected
periodicals for presentation to Czecho­
hotels in very limited numbers. Usually
slovak officials and institutions. These
the only available Western papers are
appear to be received without major
those of certain Western Communist difficulty. However, reports of non-
parties. A few technical and scholarly
receipt of personal and officially ap­
journals are available in the libraries of
proved subscriptions to Western books
research institutes and at bookfairs.
and periodicals of a technical or scholar­
There ace no personal subscriptions to
ly nature have persisted.
Western publications.
There has been no improvement
Bulgarian performance in showingrelated to the distribution of printed
Western films on television and in information in Czechoslovakia. In fact,
theaters improved somewhat. During during the reporting period the U.S.
the period, such U.S.filmsas "One Flew
Embassy received a protest from the
over the Cuckoo's Nest," "Network,"Ministry of Foreign Affairs concerning
"Kramer vs. Kramer," and Tom Horn,"the embassy's distribution of selected
as well as some West European films,wireless file items on security issues to a
were shown in local theaters. As pre­
recipient list of less than 100 media and
viously, the films chosen generally
-government officials. The five items
depict the unfavorable image of thesingled out in the protest were all policy
West that Bulgaria wishes to promote.
statements delivered by high U.S.
Several Western embassies have government officials.
experienced difficulties with Bulgarian
According to information received
authorities in scheduling cultural pre­
from the Czechoslovak authorities,
sentations already consented to in seven U.S. films have been shown for
principle in cultural agreements. Note­
the first time in the last six months,
worthy were delaying tactics and ob­
while Czechoslovak television has
struction of planned film weeks. In each
shown four U.S. films during the same
case, a film week had been accepted, but
period. No documentaries have been
when it came to actually scheduling or
shown. Perhaps the longest running
deciding the content of the programs,
U.S. film currently playing in Czecho­
the Bulgarian cultural authorities proved
slovakia is "All the President's Men,"
difficult, claiming "technical difficul­
which reportedly is also being shown in
ties," as the obstacle. "Technical diffi­
Czechoslovak schools as a commentary
culties" were also cited as the reason
on the U.S. system of government.
behind the one-month postponement of
Normally, U.S. films are carefully
an American exhibit scheduled to selected to depict the worst aspects of
appear in Sofia later this year. Despite a
American society.
signed contract, Bulgarian cultural Radio Free; Europe (RFE) is heavily
officials insist that the exhibit may only
jammed in parts of Czechoslovakia.
appear at a time when it is committed to
Most other international broadcasting,
be shown in another European capital.
including VOA, is received.
In the area of establishing Western The German Democratic Republic
cultural centers, the Bulgarians have
occupies a unique position vis-a-vis
maintained that adequate facilities were
dissemination of information in Eastern
not available or have told Western
Europe. The government's control over
-representatives that they Would not be
information is greatly lessened because
allowed to open a cultural center in
the GDR does not jam West German
Sofia.
television and radio, which are readily
available
A major setback in the information to and followed by most GDR
citizens. GDR authorities do make an
area was the Bulgarian decision to begin
jamming VOA Bulgarian-language effort to discredit Western media and
broadcasts on February 1, 1982. Westto persuade their citizens not to tune in
Germany's Deutsche Welle continued Western stations.
to be jammed, but BBC Bulgarian- Aside from U.S. Communist Party
language service has not yet experienced
publications, U.S. periodicals are un­
interference. The decision to jam VOA
available to the general public in East
is probably a reflection of the state of
Berlin and the GDR. The only excep­
the general East-West political climate,
tion is two East Berlin hotels serving
of which the Polish situation is a major
foreigners almost exclusively, which
cause. carry the International Herald Tribune
under the counter in limited quantities.
There was no improvement in Cze­ Also, the International Herald Tribune
Major libraries and institutes receive
but the general public has no access to
The U.S. Embassy .has distributed
accord with the critical media image of (Continued on pate 14) л

Mykola Lysenko in foreign sources
To my wife, Marta, for her patience and support
Mykola Lysenko as a young graduate of
the Leipzig Conservatory, circa 1869.
Part I - general works
This article is published on the 70th
anniversary of the death of Mykola
Lysenko, the most prominent Ukrai­
nian musician of the late 19th and early
20th centuries. Lysenko, who was
widely active as composer, pianist,
conductor and musical scholar, died
November 6, 1912.
Lysenko's prominence in non-Ukrai­
nian musicological literature is rivaled
only by Dmytro Bortniansky and
possibly by Fedir Akimenko. Of the
three only Lysenko, however, is desig­
nated most often as Ukrainian.
The following is meant to be a concise
critical survey of foreign literature
which writes of Mykola Lysenko.
First materials
Some items were published during
Lysenko's lifetime. Perhaps the earliest
ones were Czech reviews of Lysenko's
appearances as a pianist in Prague in
1868. On April 10, 1869, the Leipziger
Tageblatt (Leipzig Daily Bulletin)
published a review of Lysenko's perfor­
mance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto
No. 5, which lauded the reading as
captivating and informed that the
cadenza brought endless applause.
In April 1898, N. Findeisen, Russian
writer and editor, published a series of
articles in his Russische Mmikzeitung
(Russian Musical Newspaper), for
which he was personally thanked by
Lysenko via a letter to the editor in St..
Petersburg.
Posthumous publications
In November 1912, in Lviv. Western
Ukraine, Osyp Zalesky,1 published an
obituary titled "Mikolaj Lysenko" in
the Polish paper Dziennik I.udowy
(People's Daily).
In "A History of Russian Music" by
M. Montagu-Nathan, published in New
York, 1914, and in A. Pougin's "A
Short History of Russian Music" also
printed in New York a year later, there
THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY
are only five and three lines, respectively,
of text, about Lysenko.
Nejedly tribute
Prominent Czech musicologist, Zde-
nek Nejedly, author of numerous bio­
graphies and histories, was so taken
with the famous chorus of conductor
Alexander Koshetz (making a Euro­
pean tour at the time) that he wrote a
book about the chorus and its reper­
toire (in Czech) titled "Ukrajinska
Republikanska Kapela" (Ukrainian
Republican Cappella, Kiev-Prague,
1921), for many years a collector's item.
Lysenko must have impressed Nejedly
considerably because he wrote the
following.
"The works of Lysenko, either the
serious, religious Christmas psalms or
the very humorous ditties show the
original, characteristic qualities of the
composer. His songs display simple
expression, highest grandeur and even
captivating solemnity.
"From the artistic standpoint the
most valuable thing is that from these
songs there is extracted everything
characteristic and peculiar to them. The
arrangements are done very brightly
and strongly, avoiding the effect of pure
musical folklore which is foreign to the
interests of art, but on the other hand,
genuine folk material is not reduced to
artificial decorations.
"Ukrainian choral compositions ring
out with their own characteristic style of
arrangement which frees and deepens
the significance of separate voices and
raises choral composition to the high
level of true vocal polyphony, retaining
at the same time their genuine folk
character. Lysenko was the first Ukrai­
nian composer who launched this
original music on its way to the present
very precious results."
Between world wars
In Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "My
Musical Life," (New York, 1923) on
page 295 the author writes about his
visit to Kiev and Lysenko.
Neue Musikzeitung (The New Musi­
cal Newspaper, No. 47,1926), published
Ч Lysenko's original manuscript page from the opera "Taras Bulba" (orchestral
The composer, circa 1885.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14.1982 No. 46
an article, again by Mr. Zalesky, titled
"Die Ukrainische Oper" (The Ukrai­
nian Opera) in which Lysenko is given
due credit.
In W.S. Pratt's "The History of
Music" (New York, 1935), Lysenko is
labeled a "Russian composer."2 Joseph
W. Reiss, in his Polish "History of
Music," published in 1920, gives an
elaborate treatment of the subject of
Lysenkiana.
After the (inadequate) American
premiere of Lysenko's opera "Taras
Bulba" in New York, the April 22,1940,
issue of The New York Times published
some photographs of the performance
and commented that the audience was
large and enthusiastic.
"A Short History of Ukrainian
Music," written by Alexander Koshetz
and translated by W. Paluk (Jersey
City, 1944), includes an evaluation of
Lysenko. The composer is also men­ Lysenko, circa 1895.
tioned in G.W. Simpson's "Alexander
Koshetz in Ukrainian Music" (Winnipeg, wanted to bring the Ukrainian national
1946). song in its native, costume onto the
world arena. Lysenko said that by
Macenko expounds arranging these folk treasures he placed
a nation's pearl in a golden setting.
An important article on Lysenko
appeared in The Ukrainian Weekly
More recent publications
(Jersey City, December 8,1950). Written
by Pavlo Macenko,3 the article "Mykola
Wasyl Wytwycky,4 the author of the
V. Lysenko" brings up several interest­ article "Music" in the book "Ukrainian
ing points. According to the author, (Continued on page 10)
Lysenko wrote a letter to his parents
from Leipzig, dated March 28, 1968, in 1. Contemporary Ukrainian musicologist,
which he said: teacher and composer, residing in Buffalo,
N.Y.
"The Kiev (Imperial) Music School is 2. Lysenko's nationality (and that of other
disappointing. There one finds Ita-
Ukrainian composers) is registered as
lianisms, Germanisms, but basic prin­ Russian in a number of English and West
ciples of our national folk music are
European music reference works. This
carefully ignored; they are looked upon condition is a result of past ignorance of the
as something vulgar. It has been thus fact that the Russian and Ukrainian na­
and, God knows, will be so in the future. tionalities are not synonymous. Another
Our music school must be based on reason for the confusion is the process by
principles of our folk music or else it will which some new works are compiled, i.e. not
be, as untilnow, sterile, insensitive to the by true, careful research, but by way of
plagiarism of already existing works, many
realities of our life."
of which contain misinformation.
Mr. Macenko goes on the say that
3. Contemporary Ukrainian Canadian
Lysenko, as stated by Philaret Kolessa, musicologist active in Winnipeg and other
undertook a difficult job. He strove to
locales. '
give Ukrainian music a harmonic inter­ 4. Contemporary Ukrainian musicologist,
pretation which would coincide both composer and critic, now prominently active
with its structure and character. He in the United States.
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No. 46
Panorama of Ukrainian culture in the Big Apple
There's news on all fronts, past,
present and future, and it's all so
exciting I can hardly decide where to
begin.
Let me tell you what's coming up so
you can jot down the dates on your
calendar. Then well take a look at this
weekend's events, and 111 try to bring
you up to date on the cultural activities
of recent weeks.
Great dates ahead .
" November 16 — The opening of the
New York City Ballet Company's 1982-
83 season promises marvelous delights.
In addition to the work of ballet master
John Taras and company ballerina
Roma Sosenko, this season will bring us
8-year-old Nina Bachinsky in the lead
role of Mary in "The Nutcracker Suite."
Little Miss Bachinsky, who comes from
Woodstock, N.Y., lias been extremely
busy of late. She has been rehearsing for
her "Nutcracker" role, and she spent
four days recently at NBC-TV working
with actor Tony Randall and ballerina
Susan Farrell on an episode of the
"Love, Sidney" series. According to an
NBC spokesman, the "Ballet" episode
will be aired sometime in mid-Decem­
ber. Watch the Saturday evening TV
listings in your local papers for this one.
Better yet, watch all the "Love, Sidney"
programs in December, and you'll be
sure not to miss Nina Bachinsky.
ж November 19 - "Carol of the Bells"
("Shchedryk") rings out during Radio
City Music Hall's celebrated holiday
presentation, The Magnificent Christ­
mas Spectacular, which runs through
January 6. This will be the fonrth
straight year for the Ukrainian New
Year's-carol in the Music Hall Christ­
mas show.
ж November 21 — Movie and TV star
Jack Palance will attend the New York
premiere of Slavko Nowytski's new
film, "The Helm of Destiny," at the
Ukrainian Institute of America. Mr.
Palance did the narration for the film, a
panorama of Ukrainian history and
heritage in America. Attendance, limit­
ed to 200 persons, is restricted to UIA
members and guests, so the 5 p.m.
screening and reception afterwards
should be an elite event
" December 6 — Oh day of days! The
Ukrainian Bandnra School of New
York and director Julian Kytasty have
been invited to perform at this year's
Christmas tree lighting program at
Rockefeller Center. The.annual event,
held at the ice pond in the Lower Plaza,
will also feature St. Patrick's Church
choir, skating stars Tai Babilonia,
Randy Gardner and Toller Cranston,
and the Radio City Music Hall
Rockettes. Planners of the center's 50th
anniversary Christmas program, to be
aired live and in color by NBC-TV, are
attempting to line up comedian Bob
Hopejas master of ceremonies. (P.S. 1
trust that other Ukrainian musical
groups are also making arrangements to
take part in Christmas-tree lighting
ceremonies and caroling in the Big
Apple's five boroughs. Has anyone
considered a traditional "koliada"
under Mayor Koch's window at City
Hall?)'
" May 20, 1983 - More bandura
news. The Ukrainian Bandurists Chorus,
which was organized in Ukraine and is
now based in Detroit, has announced a 12-
city tour next May 7 with Carnegie Hall
already booked in New York. Celebrat­
ing the 65th anniversary of the chorus,
the tour will begin in Cleveland on May
14 and will include stops in 10 U.S. cities
THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 14.1982 і
by Helen Perozak Smindak
plus Toronto and Montreal. concert with the Kansas City Sym­ chenko's haunting poem "Kateryna."
" May 29, 1983 - Metropolitan phony in May, and an appearance in the ' Pianist Thomas Hrynkiw, busy
Opera bass Paul Plishka will appear in Kansas City Lyric Opera's production with a good number of engagements in
Verdi's "Requiem" with the Musica of Offenbach's "Perichole" in Septem­ recent months, is preparing for a recital
Sacra Chorus and the Kitchener-Water­ ber. Still, vivid memories of Ukraine in Miami during the Thanksgiving
loo Symphony Orchestra. The presen­ keep coming to mind, although it's been weekend. He will perform at the Kou-
tation will be held in Toronto's newly two months since he returned to New beck Center, 27th Avenue and Third
opened modern concert hall, Roy York from a tour of four Ukrainian Street, SW, on November 27 at 8:15
Thomson Hall, where next Sunday cities with the Oleksander Koshetz p.m. His program takes in works by
(November 21) the North American Choir of Winnipeg. He says the sights Schubert, Beethoven and Infante, three
premiere of the Liudkevych-Shev- and sounds of Ukraine, the scenes of pieces written for him by Lizaso, and
chenko work "Caucasus" ("Kavkaz") overflowing halls, the friendliness two Ukrainian selections — Kosenko's
and the world premiere of Fiala's extended by local artists and, above all, "Sonata No.3" and Nyzhankiwsky's
Symphony No. 4 will be presented by the meetings with relatives, were "tre­ "Variations on Ukrainian Themes." A
the Ukrainian Canadian Opera Asso­ mendously moving." As soloist with the frequent traveler, Mr. Hrynkiw was in
ciation. 70-member choir, directed by Walter Washington on September 29 as accom­
Klymkiw, Mr. Evanko sang in Lviv, panist for Paul Plishka's recital in the
This weekend Ternopil, Chernivtsi and Kiev, per­ Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater, and
' November 13 — Harvard Univer­ forming the Prayer from "Zaporozhets again on November 8, along with
sity's professor of Byzantine history and za Dunayem," "Stepom, stepom," Andrij Dobriansky and Renata Babak,
literature, Prof. Ihor Shevchenko, "Chuyesh, braty miy"and other songs. for the Ukrainian Helsinki Group
discusses the reasons for the success of During thefirsthalf of each concert, the commemoration at the American Uni­
the cultural impact of Byzantium on the Koshetz choir sang folk songs and versity. On October 24, he accompanied
Slavs and presents evidence of the church music, including an 18th cen­ Mr. Dobriansky in Toronto at the
Byzantine Empire's influence on Slavic tury baroque canon, and a local group Massey Hall concert commemorating
life, at the Ukrainian Institute, 5 p.m. contributed its talents in the second the 50th anniversary of Ukrainian
" November 14 — Two Ukrainian half. In Lviv and Ternopil, Mr. Evanko Catholic Brotherhoods in Canada. And
events and a Slavic concert compete for was surprised to find Americans in the - on November 3, Mr. Hrynkiw flew off
attention. A benefit concert for The audience; they turned out to be mem­ to Eugene, Ore., for a concert at the
Ukrainian Museum; featuring a gala bers of a tour group escorted by Marta Performing Arts Center featuring the
lineup of 14 Ukrainian artists, takes Jacuszko of Kobasniuk Travel of New Kalyna Trio (Nestor Cybriwskyj, Helen
place at New York University's Loeb York. The Chernivtsi program, actually Strilec and Mr. Hrynkiw) and Miss
Student Center, followed by a reception held in a village outside the city, also Babak.
in the center's Top of the Park room. consisted of dancers and musicians,
Uptown, at the Ukrainian Institute, while the concert in Kiev's Philharmonic Catching up: art
Branch 72 of the Ukrainian National Hall included the Veryovka Choir. All ' " New York's Tiffany A Co. at the
Women's League of America presents in all, a great first visit to Ukraine, says corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street
three outstanding young artists in its Mr. Evanko. recently displayed unusual sculptures
annual musicale. Both concerts begin at ь An afternoon of classics, the first in by Olenka Bachinska in its windows,
3 p.m. The Slavic concert, a folkdance a two-part concert series sponsored by along with dazzling necklaces by Angela
festival that is part of the Slavic Ethnic
the UNA and the Ukrainian Institute, Cummings and other Tiffany designers.
Heritage Week, is scheduled for 2:30 was held at the institute on October 23. Mrs. Bachinska's life-size heads and
p.m. at the Fashion Institute of Techno­
Guests at the event expressed high torsos of women, done in pastel-painted
logy, 227 W. 27th St. praise for the performers, pianist Laryssa terra-cotta, were set against back­
Krupa, actress Stefka Nazarkewycz and grounds of royal blue felt. They were on
Catching up: music soprano Laryssa Magun-Huryn. Miss view from October 27 to November 10.
о Tenor Edward Evanko is looking Krupa's performance included Schu­ о Ethnic dancers and landscapes in
forward to many exciting performances bert and Liszt-Paganini compositions, acrylic are the focus of some 25 large
next year, among them the role of Don. while Mrs. Huryn sang works by My- canvasses which make up a show open­
Juan in "Carmen." with the Augusta kola Lysenko and Stanislav Liudkevych. ing tomorrow in the library Galleria at
(Ga.) Opera in January, an all-Wagner Miss Nazarkewycz recited Taras Shev- (Continued on pap 11)
Ed Evanko performs with the Oleksander Koshetz Choir of Winnipeg under the direction of Walter Klymkiw at
Philharmonic Hall in Kiev in August.
 10
Tucson church society elects officers
TUCSON, Ariz. — The parishioners
of St. Michael's Ukrainian Catholic
Church met on October 3 to elect
members to the newly formed Church
Society.
The meeting took place at the home
of Stephanie Bliday and was conducted
by the Rev. Andrew Mykyta.
The society consists of the following:
Olha Halick, president; Ihor Blyschak,
vice president; Katia Fostiak, recording
secretary; Olya Golash-Tymciurak,
corresponding secretary; Vitaly Halich
No place like Soyuzivka
on Thanksgiving Day!'
THANKSGIVING DINNER
AT SOYUZIVKA
Thursday, November 25, 1982, at 1 p.m
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and Lubomyra Cybulsky, financial
secretaries; Trudy Tkachyk, social
director, Ms. Golash-Tymciurak and
Halia Blyschak. program directors.
The parishioners of St. Michael's also
expressed thanks to all who have
contributed to the building fund of
what will be the first Ukrainian church
in southern Arizona. Contributions
may be sent to: St. Michael's Ukrainian
Catholic Church, P.O. Box 12745,
Tucson, Ariz. 85732.
Woodcut by J Hnudonky
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14,1982
Mykola Lysenko...
(ConUnnedfrom part S)
Arts," presents Lysenko as the creator
of the Ukrainian trend and mentions
several socio-political difficulties en­
countered by him and his contempora­
ries. This article is a concise but accurate
outline of Ukrainian music, in which
Lysenko is shown as most influential
during his age.
The May 1952 issue of the Monthly
Musical Record presented an article
"Gogol and Music" by M. Montagu-
Nathan in which numerous composers
and their operas on the works of Gogol
(Hohol) are scrutinized. It is of con­
siderable interest that here Gogol is
called a great Ukrainian poet, novelist
and playwright, while Lysenko is desig­
nated a native of Ukraine but a minor
Russian composer. Montagu-Nathan'
states that Lysenko's operas, parti­
cularly "Taras Bulba," reflected Gogol
more faithfully than many a work of
other composers, even Tchaikovsky,
Rimsky-Korsakov and Serov.
In Munich, 1957, a German work
titled "Geschichte der Ukrainischen
Kultur" (The History of Ukrainian
Culture) was published. In a sub-
chapter, called "M. Lysenko and His
School," the author, Ivan Mirchuk, the
late scientist and dean of the Ukrainian
Free University, presents the composer
as one who searched for the individua­
lity of Ukrainian music. His research
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and scientific analysis of Ukrainian folk
songs convinced Lysenko that here was
an unusually rich and completely un­
tapped treasure — material which in its
quality and quantity was equalled by
few nations of the world.
According to Mr. Mirchuk, Lysenko
knew that to compose independent
Ukrainian music he had to study these
songs and use them as a basis for his
compositions. Any foreign influence
would make his works dependent on
non-Ukrainian composers and the
national character of his works would
be lost.
H.J. Moser's German work "Die
Tonsprachen des Abendlandes" (Sound
Languages of the West, Berlin, 1959),
has only 19 lines of text on Lysenko, the
scholar of musical folklore.9 A photo­
graph of Lysenko, curiously reminiscent
of Brahms, may be found in Robert
.Dolejsi's article "Otakar Sevcik, His
Life and Works," printed in "Violins ft
Violinists (November-December, 1960).
G. Polyanovsky's article "Kharkov
and Kiev," which appeared in the
magazine "Opera" (August, 1961),
discusses Lysenko's opera productions
in these two major. Ukrainian cities.
There are several important sources
writing on Lysenko in the last two
decades but these belong in the class of
dictionaries and encyclopedias and will
be discussed in the following part of this
survey.
5. Contributed by musicologist Osyp
Zalesky who told me he sent Moser six pages
of text on the history of Ukrainian music
(including data on Lysenko) which the
editor reduced to about two pages.
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D.C. mausoleum project okayed

WASHINGTON - After nearly two will contain a memorial hall, a chapel,
years of studies and negotiations con­ an altar, and an eternal flame dedicated
ducted by a small group of Ukrainian to the martyrs and fighters for the
enthusiasts spiritually and morally freedom and independence of the U-
supported by the Rev. Stephen J. krainian nation.
Shawel CSsR, pastor of the Ukrainian The building will be made of poured
Catholic National Shrine of the Holy reinforced concrete. The interior and
Family, and the Rev. Joseph Denischuk exterior of the wings will be covered
CSsR, co-pastor, Cedar Hill Memorial with blue and yellow South American
Park Inc. has finally accepted a project granite; The dome will be made of
for the "Monument-Mausoleum to the transparent yellow acrylic on a metal
Martyrs for the Freedom, of Ukraine." frame and will be illuminated from Artist's conception of monument-mausoleum.
The style of the monument-mauso­ within. The interior walls of the memo­
leum with be Byzantine, carefully blended rial hall and chapel will eventually be which are still standing today. In the United States the custom of
with modern architecture in a design decorated with artwork depicting the erecting mausoleums for above-ground
prepared by Nicolas Andreadis, a civil struggle and suffering of the Ukrainian Mausoleums, sarcophaguses and entombment in clean, dry, ventilated
engineer. The architectural and en­ people in their quest for freedom. The architectural structures of entombment crypts has been considered the highest
gineering services are being provided by north wing of this building will be are not novelties among the Ukrainians, form of honor. Until recent years
Max C. Cannon Associated Architects erected first. e i t h e r . M a n y d i s t i n g u i s h e d mausoleum entombment could be afford­
of Atlanta, while the construction is This monument-mausoleum, a multi- people have been buried in a like ed only by royalty, and the wealthy.
being negotiated with McCleskey million dollar project, will be erected on manner. For example: the sarcophagus Today, however, engineers are utilizing
Mausoleum Associates. Section F of the grounds of the Ukrainian of St. Volodymyr the Great located in modern technology to construct mauso­
The monument-mausoleum will stand National Memorial Cemetery of the the Church Of the Tithes in; Kiev; the leums that are not only more beautiful
98 feet tall. The spread of the wings U.S.A. The main entrance of this sarcophagus of Yaroslav the Wise in the and more durable, but they are able to
from north to south and east to west will building will be located at 4111 Penn­ St. Sophia Sobor in Kiev; the visible do so at a cost that places above-ground
be 235 feet, The wings of the monument- sylvania Aye^ S.E. coffins in the caves of the Kiev and burial within the means of the average
mausoleum will contain 7,680 burial The use of mausoleums as burial sites Pochayiv monasteries; the burial places family. The Monument-Mausoleum to
crypts (which will, serve approximately is not a new idea. The pyramids of of the metropolitans and bishops in the the Martyrs for the Freedom of Ukraine
3,000 families). The central section (98 Egypt, built 6,000 years before the birth crypts of cathedrals, St. George will provide burial spaces at approxi­
feet tall, octagonal, two-level, 90 feet inof Christ, and the Taj Mahal, built in Church in Lviv and Immaculate Con­ mately 50 percent of the cost of conven­
diameter) of the monument-mausoleum 350 B.C., are examples of memorials ception in Philadelphia; and the family tional in-ground burial, and will serve
mausoleums in the Lychakiv and Yaniv as another Ukrainian landmark in the
cemeteries in Lviv. U.S. capital.
had an unannounced meeting in Hel­
Madrid... sinki on October 25 with his Soviet I n
counterpart, Deputy Foreign Minister
(Continuedfrompagt 1)
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Panorama... conduct a one-day workshop on the

(Continuedfrompap 9)
the State University in Stony Brook,
Long Island. The impressionist designs,
on display through November 26, are
the work of Nina Bereznycka Radziui of
Bohemia, N.Y. Mrs. Radziui, who will
be graduating from Stony Brook in
December with a B.F.A. degree (she's
on the dean's list with an honors award),
conducts Easter egg decorating work­
shops twice a year at the Bayard Cutting
Arboretum in Oakdale, Long Island.
о Yaroslava Surmach Mills, back in
the United, States after a summer spent
building a new studio in Majorca,
Spain, is putting her imagination to
work designing more stained-glass
windows for St. Demetrius Ukrainian
Catholic Church in Weston, Ont. -
small windows for both sides of the
altar, and several skylights in the dome.
A calligraphy expert, Mrs. Mills will
Cyrillic alphabet on November 21 for
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12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1982 No. 46

Chamber Music Festival in Austria.

Toronto art exhibit...
(Conttnoed from page 5)
Munich in 1981 and in Cologne in the
summer of 1982.
Mr. Solomukha was born in Kiev. He
studied at the Lviv Polygraphic Insti­
tute in the faculty of graphic art. From
1968 to 1974 he continued his studies at
the Kiev State Art Institute where he
specialized in monumental art. He
worked for the Kiev Art Foundation
and some of his works can be seen in
present-day Kiev. Mr. Solomukha
participated in numerous exhibits
throughout the Soviet Union. Having
married a French teacher in Kiev, he
succeeded in obtaining a visa and has
resided in Paris since 1978.
Mr. Solomukha has been very active
artistically and has participated in many
exhibitions in Switzerland, France and
Italy. During the summers of 1981 and
1982 he was the artistic director of the
prestigious International Lockenhauser
Mr. Solomukha exhibits under the
name of Anton.
Mr. Strelnikov was I in
1939 in Odessa and studied at
the Odessa Art School. He began
exhibiting his paintings with the Odessa
Artists' Guild and later participated in
numerous official exhibits in Odessa,
Kiev, Moscow, Lithuania and Bulgaria.
From 1972 his paintings were shown
only at unofficial exhibits in Moscow,
Odessa, Kiev and Leningrad. In 1978,
after many conflicting situations with
the authorities, be was forced to emi­
grate to the West.
His first solo exhibit was held in 1978
in Vienna,, and his second one took
place in Munich. In 1980 Mr. Strelnikov
had one-man shows at Maxlrainer Hof
in Bad Aibling and at the Goethe
Institute in Munich. Two of his paint­
ings were selected for the "Ukrainian
Artists International Exhibit" in To­
ronto in September.

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3. Discussion of Fall Organizational Campaign.
4. General UNA topics.
5. Questions and answers, adjourment.
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No. 46
Leonid Brezhnev...
!l)
In 197S, President Brezhnev signed
the Helsinki Accords, which legitimized
post-World War II borders in Europe
and pledged the Soviet Union to up­
hold human rights within its borders.
However, the accords also spawned
citizens' groups in several Soviet re­
publics, including Ukraine, set up to
monitor Soviet compliance with the
agreements, particularly in the area of
human rights.
The severe repression of these groups
by Soviet authorities led to friction
between Mr. Brezhnev and President
Jimmy Carter, an outspoken advocate
CIA report...
(Continuedfrompage 3)
past use of unconfined laborers and the
current labor shortage, "it seems that
some forced labor would be used along
the export pipeline route for compressor
station and auxiliary construction
unless the Soviets depart from their
usual practice because of the exposure
of the Western media."
But in response to the reports from
Europe of large-scale use of penal labor
on the pipeline project, the CIA said
that "large-scale use of forced laborers
on the export pipeline is unlikely
because many of the jobs require special
skills."
The State Department in its summary
said that forced labor in the Soviet
Union "is a human-rights issue of deep
concern to the administration," The
Times reported.
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of human rights. This, coupled with
such factors as increased Soviet support
of leftist revolutionary groups around
the globe, particularly in Africa and
Latin America, lead to a growing chill in
Soviet-U.S. relations, which reached its
peak with the Soviet invasion of Af­
ghanistan in 1979 and the Soviet in­
volvement in the declaration of martial
law in Poland last year.
Mr. Brezhnev was born in Ukraine in
1906. His official biography lists
Russian as his nationality,
Ukrainian Helsinki...
(Continuedfrompap 3)
have reached the West via the sam-
vydav.
In this manner, in late March, the
prisoners of Perm Camp No. 26 ad­
dressed an appeal to Amnesty Inter­
national and members of the delega-
- tions to the Madrid Conference on the
occasion of the first anniversary of the
tragic death in Soviet captivity of noted
Estonian rights defender Juri Kukk.
The appeal was signed by Viktor Niytso
(Tartu, Estonia), Henrikh Altunian
(Kharkiv, Ukraine), Mr. Balakhonov
(Moscow, Russia), Viktor Nekipelov
(Moscow, Russia), Myroslav Mary-
novych (Kiev, Ukraine), Aleksandr
Ogorodnikov (Moscow, Russia), Mr.
Rudenko (Kiev, Ukraine) and Oles
Shevchenko (Kiev, Ukraine).
Our duty in the West is to compile the
documents of the Camp Helsinki Group
and the political prisoners who joined in
signing its documents, and to bring
them to the attention of the general
public, as has been done with docu­
ments of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group.
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St Demetrius Church celebrates
patron saint's feast day
TORONTO - The "praznyk," or
patron saint's feast day, of St. Deme­
trius Church here was celebrated on
Sunday, October 24.
The liturgical festivities began with a
solemn vesper service and "lytia" on the
preceeding evening. The next day, at
11:30 a.m., the pastor, the Rev. John
Tataryn, assisted by the parish clergy,
altar boys and the church choir, cele­
brated a solemn divine liturgy of thanks­
giving.
The church wasfilledto capacity with
parishioners, guests and friends of the
parish who came to church to partici­
pate in the "praznyk" celebrations.
During the homily, the Rev. Tataryn
briefly reflected on the growth and
development of the St. Demetrius
parish community, thanked parishioners
for their generous support and en­
couraged all to strive for holiness and
joy in their personal lives.
At the conclusion of the divine
liturgy, the children of St. Demetrius
School sang a hymn in honor of their
patron, St. Demetrius.
After the service, the entire parish
assembly proceeded to the newly ac­
quired four-acre property, which was
blessed by the fathers of the parish. The
newly acquired land has already been
developed into a park, playground and
running track.
After the blessing, all in attendance
proceeded to the church hall for the
"praznyk" banquet. The Ukrainian
(2,000.00 TOTAL
S 200.00 Фо р л л лп
13
Catholic Women's League prepared
this banquet for over 750 people. The
Ukrainian Catholic Youth of the parish
helped members of the league serve
the meal. Many guests were present for
this event, including representatives,
of the federal, provincial and munici­
pal governments.
During the banquet, presentations
for the Church Building Program were
made by the Ukrainian Catholic Wo­
men's League, "Svitlytsia," the Senior
Citizens' Club and the Ukrainian Ca­
tholic Youth. The women's league also
presented to the principal of the school,
Sister Rachel SMI, a check for S 1,000
toward the purchase of religious educa­
tion materials.
The four young cantors of the parish
were awarded bursaries in order to aid
them in their education and to thank
them for their contributions to the
musical development of parish divine
liturgies.
Since the main event of this day was
the blessing of the new playground
facilities for the school children, a
surprise announcement was made. The
Religion and Culture Society and the'
St. Demetrius Ukrainian Catholic
Women's League, in order to com­
memorate this day, established a School
Spirit Award for a graduating boy and
girl of St. Demetrius School. This
award will consist of a trophy and
monetary gift and will be awarded to a
boy and girl who best exemplify the
spirit of St. Demetrius Catholic School.
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a Memorial plaques are available to comme­
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14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1982 No. 46

but many evidently listen to VOA as that it is almost impossible for an tance, thus fueling the suspicion that the
The Madrid... well as to BBC and other Western individual to purchase a subscription to entire incident was set up. In another
(Continued from pap 7) broadcasts. There has been no evidence a U.S. periodical. incident, a number of journalists were
foreign policy statements to approxi- of jamming. Eight American feature films - none treated roughly, and a correspondent
mately 300 GDR recipients since Sep- During the period prior to martial particularly recent - currently are was thrown to the ground by Soviet
tember 1980 when the GDR Foreign law, Poland had taken serious steps playing in Warsaw cinemas, a signifi- militia as they tried to speak toa Soviet
Ministry ceased requiring Western forward in terms of fuller implementa- cant drop as compared even with the citizen who earlier Jiad forced his way
embassies to submit such materials, tion of the information provisions of the hard times, economically speaking, of into the U.S. Embassy.
including foreign-policy statements, to Helsinki Final Act. Polish information six months ago. American films have Individual travel requests were
it for advance approval. The GDR has media featured much more open, frank, almost disappeared from Polish televi- generally granted, although no travel by
increased pressure on users of the U.S. and lively treatment of issues, including sion. U.S. correspondents was permitted to
library to discourage visitors by on-the- criticism of government actions. Polish Poles regularly listen to Western the Siberian-European pipeline area,
street identification checks and confis- print media displayed a pluralism in radio broadcasts, including VOA, RFE, specifically the city of Urengoy. Several
cation of materials. viewpoints and, except for some highly BBC and Radio Vatican. There was correspondents were not invited to
The GDR continues to purchase propagandistic newspapers, a regard heavy jamming of VOA Polish and participate in another officially spon-
approximately 10 U.S. films annually for factual accuracy. The previous RFE after martial law was imposed, but sored trip to Murmansk.
for showing in theaters and on tele- "Propaganda of Success" approach was the broadcasts still appear to be getting Although the Ministry of Foreign
vision. In the past six months, U.S. supplanted by a remarkable frankness through. VOA English has not been Affairs press center holds occasional
films shown in the theaters have included in reporting negative information and jammed. The official Polish media have news conferences, the majority of
"Coming Home" and "The Deer events. Almost no major event went conducted a continuing campaign against journalists continue to find access to
Hunter." GDR radio and television unreported, even many very unflatter- "subversive" Western radio broadcasts, Soviet officials difficult. Soviet corres-
coverage of the United States continues, ing to the authorities. In contrast, accusing them of "meddling in Poland's pondents in the West have free access to
on balance, to be essentially negative. martial law severelyrestrictedinforma- internal affairs." anyone willing to talk with them;
Coverage of U.S. domestic and foreign tion flow and communications in Po- Rumanian performance on the infor- however, early in the reporting period,
affairs is generally critical, propagan- land. Telephone service with other mation aspects of the final act was several visiting groups of top U.S.
dists and distorted. countries was suspended, and all tele- unchanged during the reporting period. media representatives were denied
In Hungary, copies of Western publi- phone/telex/postal communications All information is government con- meetings with high-level Soviet officials.
cations including the International were subject to censorship. Strict cen- trolled in Rumania, and Western publi- The groups were directed instead to a
Herald Tribune, Time and Newsweek sorship was imposed on the media. cations are not generally available. Only U.S.A. Institute spokesman or lower-
are available in limited quantities at the Many publications closed down by very few American newspapers and level functionaries in other ministries.
airport and at various hotels that cater martial law belatedly received permis- magazines are sold in Rumania. They The one major technical break-
to foreign tourists. Hungarian authori- sion to resume publication, and some are available sporadically in small through took place in the area of
ties claim that over 40 outlets carry such remained closed. In many respects the quantities in the large hotels in major satellite transmission for the networks.
publications. Although this statistic has Polish press returned to its pre-Septem- cities and at Otopeni Airport but are Since December 20, 1981, they have
not been confirmed, it appears to be a ber 1980 format. News is mentioned rarely seen. American Communist been allowed to transmit coverage of
reasonable estimate. Some American rather than reported; passive construc- publications are rarely, if ever, sold. official events from Moscow by satellite.
Communist publications are visible, but tions obscure responsibility for actions; The tape for ^ny story that veers away
ritual phrases, exhortation and polemics American books and periodicals are
the numbers and percentage of the unavailable to Rumanians at news- from an official event, however, must be
market are unknown. The newly opened predominate. In short, the pluralism in transported to Western Europe for
viewpoints, regard for factual accuracy stands or by subscription. Rumanian
Hotel Forum has a wide selection of academic libraries have received a small transmission.
Western publications which are available and frankness which previously charac-
terized increasingly vital Polish publica- number of American scholarly publica- Bulgarian treatment of the Western
to Hungarians. tions, but this source of acquisition has press has generally been correct and
tions ceased to exist in the attempt to
This said, the general public still hasportray a society returning to normalcy, almost ended because of foreign currency acceptable. However, during the report-
little access to Western publications order and stability. restrictions. Rumanians have access to ing period, there was one incident of
through subscriptions, ostensibly be- American books and periodicals at the visa delay for a U.S. journalist. Foreign
cause of currency restrictions on these Martial law also eviscerated the U.S. library in Bucharest. journalists must arrange all interviews
items. Government and party officials Polish media by removing or interning American feature films, television through the official Sofia Press Agency
as well as many working in the media many of its leading figures. A system of shows and radio programs on science, and/or the press department of the
have access to such publications, and "verification" largely silenced those culture and music are popular. Ruma- Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a practice
most established institutions receive a who remained at their jobs, and it nian broadcast authorities admit, how- which inhibits candid contacts. Some
limited number of subscriptions. The produced a single and rather dull media ever, that programs with political Western journalists have described the
Hungarians continue to translate a line which conformed to military dic- content that differs from official policy Bulgarian press authorities as not being
large number of the works of American tates. According to Stefan Bratkowski, will not be disseminated. Two or three obstructionist but as not being particu-
poets and writers, contemporary writers president of the dissolved Polish Jour- American feature films are generally larly helpful either. For its services
including Updike, Roth, Mailer, Oates,. nalists Association, and Western press playing in Bucharest at any one time. Sofia Press has tried to charge inflated
Bellow and Singer being particularly reports, more than 1,200 print and These films often tour the provinces fees.
popular. media journalists have lost their posi- later. Rumanian TV regularly shows There has been little change in Cze-
The Hungarian press continues to tions in the ideological purge. Indeed, in American feature films and also occa- choslovakia's handling of Western
criticize and occasionally to vilify late March the authorities permitted the sionally American documentaries. journalists. During the reporting period
American foreign policy, blaming the creation of a new and presumably more Rumania does not jam foreign radio approximately five visas were granted
United States for most world tension. malleable organization, the Associa- broadcasts. to American journalists having perma-
The Soviet party line and its strident tion of Journalists of the Polish Peoples nent accreditation. At least four others
criticism of the United States are largely Republic. This development culmi- Working conditions for journalists were also granted visas for individual
followed in the Hungarian press, making nated a long campaign of criticism Visits. In the case of one of these, it was
it difficult for individual journalists to directed by the authorities at an increa- the first time he had been allowed to
The Soviet government continues to
express differences without some reper- - singly independent press corps and its maintain tight control over the work of return to Czechoslovakia since 1968.
cussions. The coverage of Poland is on leaders. It also demonstrated the re- foreign journalists. Overt censorship of Interviews are usually arranged with
balance less strident than that of many gime's determination to eradicate all wire transmissions of news stories out of Czechoslovak officials, but the quality
of Hungary's neighbors. Hungarian vestiges of public autonomy and to the country is infrequent, but the of information obtained is very low. In
television broadcast a special program reinforce the party's dominance over authorities harass selected foreign addition, not all appointment requests
on Poland in February, which was one public life. The head of the new associa- journalists and, in some cases, either are normally granted. Western journa-
of the most realistic discussions on tion admitted to Western reporters that deny them visas or curtail already issued lists continue to contact dissidents
Poland in any East European coun- at least 700 journalists lost their jobs visas. The Soviets have taken some without official interference, although
try. Other television programs featured because of opposition to martial law most if not all such contacts are usually
steps to improve the working conditions
panel discussions which included offi- and 21 publications had been closed of foreign journalists, such as the subject to police surveillance. Notes,
cials and journalists for the East and permanently. issuance of multiple entry/exit visas, in clippings' and other papers of one
West. Recently, one such program The availability of Western publica- connection with Soviet undertakings accredited journalist were confiscated
featured former Undersecretary of tions in Poland declined considerably under the Helsinki Final Act. by Czechoslovak customs authorities
State Matthew Nimetz. during the reporting period. Formerly when the journalist left the country by
Two journalists and one technical
American films continue to grow in available limited quantities of the assistant received multiple exit/entry car. These were subsequently returned.
popularity among Hungarian movie- International Herald Tribune and visas and permanent accreditation to
goers. The number of films shown each Newsweek are no longer available at work for American media in Moscow In another incident, the papers and
year is increasing slightly, and the Polish newsstands. No American books during the reporting period. All were notes of another accredited journalist
quality seems to be improving as well. and periodicals are now being sold at replacements for resident correspon- were lost when his baggage was lost and
In the first three months of 1982, an newsstands. Libraries, including uni- dents. Although two correspondents never found.
avenge of 24 American films was versity libraries, have for all intents and received their visas in a timely manner, GDR authorities have demonstrated
playing in local theaters per week. purposes no hard-currency budgets for processing of the technical assistant's no appreciable change in attitudes
Hungarian TV features at least one the purchase of new books and periodi- visa took almost three months. toward working conditions for Western
American film or television series a cals from the United States. There are Working conditions for journalists journalists. As noted previously, new
week', frequently two or three. Recent no reports that any books have been became more difficult during the report- laws implemented in1979 have affected
offerings have included "The Muppets," removed from library shelves. Western ing period in several respects. Harass- resident journalists from some Western
"Charlie's Angels" and a series of books and periodicals already in library ment occurred in Kiev, where a corres- countries, who now must apply for
Humphrey Bogart films. collections - principally in university pondent was dragged for two blocks by GDR permission before they can inter-
Hungarians regularly listen to Western libraries - are therefore available to an assailant who finally succeeded in view a GDR citizen. This device, used to
radio broadcasts. Reportedly, the RFE users. Hard-currency expenditure out- stealing her handbag. A policeman.on prevent interviews with critics of the
Hifegarian service is the most popular, side Poland is so controlled and limited the scene refused to come to her assis-
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regime, has made GDR residents more
circumspect in dealing with foreign
journalists.
American journalists visit Hungary
frequently and experience no difficulty
in obtaining visas. In fact, multiple
entry visa issuance has been facilitated
by a reciprocal U.S.-Hungarian agree­
ment which was concluded during the
reporting period. Approximately IS
American correspondents visited Hun­
gary during the reporting period. The
Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been
cooperative and helpful in arranging
meetings requested by the correspon­
dents with government officials, except
that correspondents do not always get
to see the highest official requested.
The imposition of martial law in
Poland brought with it a host of
changes, all negatively affecting foreign
journalists' ability to ply their trade.
The military authorities almost imme­
diately turned over to the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs press department the
responsibilities of Interpress, formerly
the quasi-autonomous, free-wheeling
enterprise charged with responsibility
for foreign media representatives in
Poland. The renamed press center now
carefully controls (as opposed to faci­
litating) access to Polish officials by the
foreign media. The center concentrates
on preparing press conferences that serve
the authorities' propaganda ends. Foreign
journalists can only leave Warsaw after
having gained the Polish authorities'
permission, which usually is not given.
Equipment may be brought in without
difficulty, but the crews of those tele­
vision networks permanently accredited
to Poland are now basically limited to
Polish nationals. International telex
and outgoing - telephone communica­
tions with parent organizations were
restored in early April, after more than
three months of interruption under
martial law restrictions.
Two permanent accreditations have
been granted to U.S. media representa­
tives in the past six months, and a third
has been pending for over six months.
Approximately 30 visas were granted to
visiting U.S. journalists permanently
accredited in Poland.
Western reporters continue to enter
and to travel within Rumania without
impediment. No American journalists
are permanently accredited in Rumania.
They periodically visit Rumania, and a
large number accompanied Secretary
Haig on his visit to Rumania in
February. Journalists and film crews
are free to move about the country and
to contact their parent organizations.
American film access to sources is
limited both by law and by local prac­
tice.
COOPERATION AND EXCHANGES
IN THE FIELDS OF CULTURE AND
EDUCATION
This section of Basket III commits
the signatories to facilitate cultural and
educational exchanges, improve access
to cultural achievements, expand con­
tacts between educational institutions,
increase international scientific co­
operation and encourage the study of
foreign languages.
General considerations .
Exchanges are an important aspect of
relations among the 35 participating
CSCE states. The examples listed in
this section are not a complete account­
ing. Rather, they are highlights indica­
tive of the scope of the exchanges and
cooperative ventures in progress, many
of which have been under way for some
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THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY
time or never come to our attention States and the USSR since the Soviet
unless a problem develops. invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, al­
Ivanovskiy, senior researcher at the
Institute of Latin America (USSR
In the case of Poland, the imposition though some privately sponsored activi­ Academy of Sciences), and Boris Merin,
of martial law in December 1981 has ties continue. section chief at the same institute,
affected each category of cooperation The situation with other East Euro­ visited the United States in March to
falling under the CSCE review. It is pean countries varies but has not been attend the 10th National Conference of
apparent that some traditional ex­ ' marked with the kind of decline in the Latin American Studies Associa­
change programs which were thriving exchanges as is the case with the Soviet tion.
before martial law will not return to Union. The Armenian Chamber Or­ A three-person Soviet debate team
significant levels of activity for some chestra toured the United States for 12 visited the United States for two weeks
time to come. days in January. in April at the invitation of the U.S.
The decision of the United States to Soviet chess master Tigran Petrosyan Association of Oratory. Their itinerary
curtail government-funded exchanges toured the United States for 30 days included college campuses in seven
with the Soviet Union is of special rele­ during February-March and partici­ states.
vance in this section. Our General pated in a tournament in New York in Eight Soviets from Tashkent visited
Agreement on Contacts, Exchanges April. Seattle in February for six days at the
and Cooperation with the Soviet Union The Primavera String Quartet per­ invitation of the mayor of Seattle, in
expired on December 1979 and has not formed in Bucharest January 24-29 in connection with the celebration of
been renewed. Our delegation at the conjunction with the 10th anniversary "Tashkent Days" in Seattle, which is
Madrid. CSCE Review Meeting made celebrations of the American Library in Tashkent's sister city.
clear that the disregard for the prin­ Rumania. American theater specialist Edith
ciples of the Helsinki Final Act by the The Sofia Philharmonic toured the Markson visited the USSR at the
Soviet Union undermines the basis for United States for 44 days during the invitation of the Soviet copyright
cooperation between us in other areas. January-March' period. The tour in­ agency VAAP in March-April.
The United States does, however, cluded performances in 34 cities, in­ The USICA-spohsored exchange of
continue to support the Fulbright and cluding New York, Washington and specialists with other East European
I REX academic exchanges, as well as Chicago. USICA provided facilitative countries included the following.
several privately administered univer­ assistance in arranging meetings with Rumania: ' Dr. Stefan Costea, head
sity-to-university exchanges. We have U.S. musicians in several cities on the of Production, Oil and Drilling Trust,
continued to carry out a full range of itinerary. Bucharest, visited the United States for
cultural, informational and academic Marta Istomin, artistic director of the 45 days under the International Visitors
exchanges with the East European Kennedy Center for the Performing Program to study American offshore oil
countries, except with martial-law Po­ Arts in Washington, visited Rumania in production systems and equipment
land. February. under a program arranged by the
v
The Warsaw Chamber Orchestra and Department of Agriculture.
Culture the Mazowsze folk dance ensemble Czechoslovakia: - James Abert,
from Poland toured the United States president of the National Center for
BOOKS AND PUBLISHING: A during the reporting period under Resources Recovery, visited Prague
U.S. book publishers'delegation visited private arrangements. under USICA auspices to discuss re­
Hungary in late 1981. Among the EXHIBITS: The USICA exhibition source recovery and energy sources in
results of this visit were discussions of "American Impressionism " was shown the United States.
the possibility of English translations of in the GDR in March 1982. The USICA Michael Lynch, director for the
Hungarian literary works by small U.S. exhibit "American Theater Today" will Creative Writing Program of the Ame­
publishers. be shown in Budapest in late 1982 or rican College in Paris, gave a series of
Poland continues to import limited early 1983. Also, USICA cancelled lectures on American literature in
amounts of mostly technical titles from plans for three U.S. exhibits in Poland Prague under USICA sponsorship in
the United States. Distribution of the on museums, impressionist art and April.
USICA-published, Polish-language medical technology following the im­ GDR: Wolfgang S. Klaue partici­
magazine Ameryka has been delayed. position of martial law. pated in the USICA-sponsored Multi-
Publication of Poland, the Polish Regional Project "Current Trends in
magazine distributed in the United EXCHANGE VISITS BY SPECIA­ American Film" in March-April.
States, remained suspended at the end LISTS: Officially sponsored visits by Alvin Aim, Kennedy School of
of April. Soviet specialists under the Interna­ Government, Harvard University, visit­
The United States and the USSR tional Visitor Program remained at a ed East Berlin under USICA sponsor­
continue to exchange monthly publica­ very low level. Dr. Lionginas Pazusis of ship to discuss energy and security
tions - America Illustrated and Soviet the English department of the Univer­ interests in February-March.
Life. Soviet authorities continued to sity of Vilnius, arrived in April for a 30-
return approximately 10,000 copies of day USICA-sponsored project on Ame-. Education
the U.S. publication monthly as unsold. rican studies.
FILMS AND BROADCASTING: Vitaliy Kobysh, chief, U.S.A. Desk, EXCHANGES, EDUCATIONAL
Hungarian television has aired the International Information Department PROGRAMS AND VISITS: Despite
results of the 1981 cooperative TV of the Central Committee of the Com­ the absence of a cultural and exchange
project on President Reagan, which was munist Party of the USSR, visited the agreement with the Soviet Union,
considered generally unbiased and United States for nine days in March to official and private academic exchange
factual. A 1982 cooperative TV project participate in a meeting of the Interna­ programs with the Soviets continue,
focusing on "America in the 1980 s" will tional Studies Association. Several although at a reduced level. Following
look at American attitudes and beliefs. researchers of the Institute for the Study are scholars exchanged under the Ful­
USICA has arranged for the Hun­ of the U.S.A. and Canada (USSR bright program during the reporting
garian TV Washington correspondent Academy of Sciences) also attended the period. The number of scholars current­
to have access to agency studios to file meeting. ly on program is significantly larger, but
periodic items from the United States. Liparit Kyuzadzhyan, deputy direc­ most began their grants during the
The American Film Institute an­ tor at the Institute of Scientific Infor­ preceding period.
nounced that it will present a festival of mation on Social Sciences (USSR
Hungarian films during 1982-83 at Academy of Sciences), was invited to the Bulgaria 1 U.S. researcher
campuses and other locations through­ United States by the Kennan Institute (Bulgarian researcher
out the United States. Hungary's for Advanced Russian Studies for 30 Czechoslovakia None
"Mephisto" won the 1982 Academy days beginning March 1. GDR None
Award for the best foreign film and is Leonid N. Svitsun, clergyman of the Hungary 1 U.S. lecturer
being shown in U.S. theaters. Moscow Patriarchy in Ukraine, visited Poland I U.S. student
Cooperative projects with Solidarity the United States for two weeks in I Polish researcher
and the Polish government organiza­ February to speak to United Methodist Rumania 1 U.S. student
tion Interpress involving exchange of groups about the work of the Russian I U.S. lecturer
film material have been suspended since Orthodox Church for peace. The Rev. 1 U.S. researcher
the imposition of martial law in Poland. Svitsun was invited by the United 3 Rumanian lecturers
The Academy Award-nominated Methodist Church, Florida area. I Rumanian researcher
Polish film "Man of Iron" was shown Three Soviet athletic teams traveled USSR 2 Sovierlecturers
throughout the United States, receiving to the United States during the report­ 7 U.S. lecturers
generally enthusiastic acclaim from ing period - a gymnastic team (April),
both critics and the public. After the a diving team (May) and a weightlifting Seven Soviet lecturers were expected
imposition of martial law, the Polish team (April). to arrive in the United States during the
film authorities unsuccessfully attempt­ Georgiy Arbatov, director of the reporting period, but only two actually
ed to have the film withdrawn from the I nstitute for the Study of the U. S. A. and arrived. Although some were placed as
Academy Award competition. Canada (USSR Academy of Sciences), early as July 1981, the Soviet Ministry
PERFORMING ARTS: There have visited the United States for 13 days in of Higher Education waited until mid-
been no official exchanges of perform­ February to participate in meetings of March to announce that five would not
ing arts groups between the United the "Palme Commission." Zbignev (Continued on pete 14) .
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Sunday, November 14
NEW YORK: The United Slavic
Folkdance Festival will be held today
at 2:30 p.m. at the Fashion Institute
of Technology, 227 W. 27th St. The
fifth annual festival is sponsored by
the Slavic Heritage Council of Ame­
rica Inc., and features dancers and
singers in authentic national cos­
tumes, including Bulgarian, Byelo­
russian, Czech, Macedonian, Polish,
Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian
and Ukrainian. Admission is S7; SS
for senior citizens and students.
The festival kicks off the fifth
Slavic Ethnic Heritage Week, No­
vember. 14-21. Highlights of the
week include the proclamation of
Slavic Ethnic Heritage Week at City
Hall on Monday, November 15, at
10 a.m., and the official opening of
the week with greetings from public
officials and ethnic representatives at
the Ukrainian Institute of America
on Monday evening at 7 p.m.
Throughout the week there will be
an exhibit of fine arts at the UIA, a
Slavic Book Exhibit at the New York
Public Library at 42nd Street and
Fifth Avenue and a symposium on
the Slavic Heritage will be held at the
UIA, 2 E. 79th St., on Thursday
evening, November 18 at 7 p.m.
For more information on specific
events, please contact the Slavic
Heritage Council of America Inc.,
414 E. 79th St., (212) 784-7224 or
794-5974.
NEW YORK: Ukrainian National
Women's League of America Branch
17 is sponsoring a Musicale featuring
three outstanding young artists at 3
p.m. at the Ukrainian Institute of
America, 2 E. 79th St. The artists are
Orest Harasymchuk, pianist; Odarka
Polanskyj, harpist; and Ihor Pono-
marenko, violinist. The co-chair­
women of the committee are Helen
Prociuk and Ann Bezkorowajny.
NEW YORK: A benefit concert
given by The Ukrainian Museum will
be held today at 3 p.m. at the New Sunday, November 21
York University Loeb Student
Center, 566 LaGuardia Place. Among
the performers will be Laryssa
K ukrycky, Nestor Cybriwsky, Andrij
Dobriansky, Edward Evanko, Thomas
Hrynkiw, Lydia Krushetnytsky,
Julian Kytasty, Nusha Martynuk
and Carter McAdams, Christina
Romana Lypeckyj, Juliana Osin-
chuk, Paul Plishka, Halyna Strilec
and Motria Evhenia Slupchynskyj.
After the concert, there will be an
informal reception with a wine and
cheese buffet, served at Top of the
Park in the center.
Tickets for both the benefit con­
cert and the reception may be pur­
chased at The Ukrainian Museum,
Arka and Dnipro. They will also be
sold at the door on the day of the
concert,
Friday, November 19
NEW YORK: Open House at St.
George Academy, 215 E. Sixth St.
The public is welcome to sit in on
morning classes (8:30-noon) or tour
the building between 12:30 and 2:30
p.m. The Ukrainian community is
urged to take this opportunity to
compare St. George's academically
with any other private high school in
the area and to note the unique
offering of courses for college credit.
THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY
PREVIEW OF EVENTS
LOS ANGELES: Art enthusiasts
and collectors will have an opportu­
nity to meet Roksolana Gilicinski in
person and view her most recent oil
paintings at a champagne reception
at 8 p.m. at the Ukrainian Art Center
Gallery, 4315 Melrose Ave. Ms.
Gilicinski, from Roksolana Studio-
Gallery, Tulsa, Okla, will be at the
gallery for the duration of this special
three-day exhibition.
Ms. Gilicinski studied art at the
Newark School of Fine and In­
dustrial Arts and completed Phila­
delphia Art College. She participated
in many group exhibits and had a
number of individual shows. She
exhibited at the S. G. Sloan Galleries
Ltd., Judith Gallery, Copper Oaks
Inn, and Eleventh Street Studio
Gallery in Tulsa.
She is a member of the Chicago
Art Guild, Tulsa Art Guild, Bartles-
ville Art Association in Oklahoma
and the Ukrainian Artists Associa­
tion. Ukrainian Art Center
hours for the exhibit will be Satur­
day, November 20, from 11 a.m. to 3
p.m. and Sunday, November 21,
from noon to 6 p.m.
EDMONTON: The Canadian Insti­
tute of Ukrainian Studies is sponsor­
ing a seminar by Dr. Ivan L. Rudnyt-
sky on "Viacheslav Lypynsky: The
Conservative Challenge in 20th Cen­
tury Ukrainian Political Thought."It
will be held at the University of
Alberta, Athabasca Hall, Heritage
Lounge, at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 20
IRVINGTON, N.J.: The Lisovi
Chorty Plast unit is sponsoring a
costume ball tonight at the Ukrai­
nian National Home, 140 Prospect
Ave., at 9 p.m. Admission is S6 for
persons with costumes, S10 other­
wise. The Tempo orchestra will
supply music for dancing. For reser­
vations call (212) 843-6713.
A work byChristinaHolowchak-
Debarry.
NEW YORK: The opening of an
exhibit of woodcuts by Christina
Holowchak-Debarry will take place
today at 1 p.m. in the Ukrainian
Artists Association Gallery, 136
Second Ave., fourth floor. Mrs.
Debarry studied graphic art at the
Newark School of Fine and Indus­
trial Arts, New York University and
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1982
the Art Students Leaeue. The exhibit
of her works will be open November
21-28. Gallery hours are 6-8 p.m.
weekdays and 1-8 p.m. weekends.
CHICAGO: Join members of the
Chicago Plast branch for the blessing
of the new Plast Home, 2124 W.
Chicago Ave., at noon. The blessing
will be followed by an open-house
reception which will last until 6 p.m.
NEW YORK: The Providence Asso­
ciation of Ukrainian Catholics, New
York and New Jersey districts, will
mark the 70th anniversary of the
association with a divine liturgy,
followed by a panakhyda for all
deceased members of the associa­
tion. Concelebrating the services will
be Metropolitan Stephen Sulyk,
Bishop Basil Losten, Auxiliary
Bishop Robert Moskal and Msgr.
Stephen Chomko, president of the
association, at St. George Ukrainian
Catholic Church, here. This will be
followed by a 2:30 p.m. banquet and
program to be held at St, George's
School. Tickets for the banquet are
S12.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.: The
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Ukrainian Catholic Church, in con­
junction with the Art Gallery of Irene
Wanchytska of Philadelphia, will
hold an art exhibit today from 12:30
to 6:30 p.m. The exhibit will be held
in the church hall, 80 Livingston Ave.
There will also be a display of Ukrai­
nian icons in the hall. For more
information, call the rectory at (201)
246-8385.
TORONTO: The Canadian Ukrai­
nian Opera Association presents the
North-American premiere of "The
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be traveling due to "lateness of notice."
Two officials of Tbilisi State Univer­
sity visited the United States January
12-22 to sign an agreement on scientific
and cultural cooperation with Lowell
University in Massachusetts.
The Protocol of the Fourth Meeting
of the American Council of Learned
Societies (ACLS)-U.S.S.R. Academy
of Sciences Commission on the Hu­
manities and Social Sciences was signed
in New York on January 22 by the
ACLS. The Soviet Academy of Sciences
had signed the document in October
1981. The protocol outlines coopera­
tion for 1982-83 in the fields of inter­
national relations, economics, history,
archaeology, ethnography, sociology
psychology, law, geography, East Asia,
world labor and social change, language
and literature, information and docu­
mentation in the humanities and social
sciences, and philosophy.
The University of Missouri's chan­
cellor, George A. Russell, visited Mos­
cow in January to discuss an exchange
agreement with Moscow State Univer­
sity. -
The U.S.-Bulgarian Cultural a n d '
Educational Exchanges Agreement was
renewed in March.
The United States and Hungary
signed a new two-year Program Docu­
ment on exchanges on December 4,
1981. The principal points of the agree­
ment include: (a) the acceptance of one
Fulbright lecturer in each direction for a
full academic year; (b) the addition of
No. 46
Caucasus" with music by Stanislav
Liudkevych and words by Taras
Shevchenko, and the world debut of
"Symphony No. 4" by George Fiala.
The conductor of these operas will be
Wolodymyr Kolesnyk. The Cana­
dian Ukrainian Opera Chorus will
perform the works with the help of a
full symphony orchestra, at 7 p.m. at
Roy Thomson Hall, 225 King St., W.
Tickets may be purchased at Arka
Limited, Arka West in Toronto, as
well as Arka Mississauga and the
Roy Thomson Hall box office.
Friday, November 76
EAST HANOVER, NJ.:The Chor-
normortsi Plast unir is holding a fall
dance at 9 p.m. at the Ramada Inn,
Route 10. The Tempo orchestra will
provide music; admission is S7 in
advance, S9 at the door. For reser­
vations call Oleh Kolodiy, (201) 763-
1797.
Saturday, November 27
EDISON, N.J.: Plast Ukrainian
Youth Organization, New Bruns­
wick branch, is hokJingabanquetand
dance to mark the 25th anniversary
of the branch. The banquet and
dance will be held at Pines Manor
(State Highway 27) here. The Tempo
orchestra will provide dancing
music. ,
PREVIEW OF EVENTS it a
service provided free of charge by
The Ukrainian Weekly to the Ukrai­
nian community. To have a Ukrai­
nian community event listed in this
column please send information
(type of event, date, time, place,
admission, sponsor, etc.) - along
with the phone number of a person
who may be reached during daytime
hours for any additional information
- to: PREVIEW QF EVENTS, The
Ukrainian Weekly, 30 Montgomery
St., Jersey City, NJ. 0730І
an exchange of one research scholar for
a full academic year and up to two other
research scholars from three to six
months each way; and (c) a session
encouraging contacts between the U.S.
Bureau of Mines and the Hungarian
Ministry of Industry.
Beginning in the summer of 1982 the
University of Connecticut will begin a
summer study program in Hungary.
Academic exchanges between the
United States and Poland have conti­
nued. Conditions for American stu­
dents at Polish universities have not
been oppressive, and USICAJias main­
tained contacts with officials on prac­
tically all campuses in the country.
LANGUAGE: Arrangements bet­
ween American colleges and universi- ш
ties and Soviet academic institutions
remain active. American students
travel to Leningrad State University
under the Council on International
Educational Exchange (CIEE) auspices.
CIEE receives a grant from USICA in
support of its language program in the
USSR.
The American Council of Teachers of
Russian (ACTR) and Ohio State Uni­
versity provide opportunities for Ame­
rican college students to undertake
advanced language study in Moscow at
the Pushkin Institute.
English departments at Polish uni­
versities appear to have emerged rela­
tively unscathed by martial law, and
student interest in English is undi-
minished. The Krakow Summer Pro­
gram for Stony Brook (SUNY) ex­
changees is scheduled to take place as in
previous years.