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No. 53 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31,1989 50 cents
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The scene at an April pre-elections m ng at the Druzhba stadium in Lviv.
1989: A LOOK BACK
lie clergy on April 16 in front of the UHU drew nearly 10,000 people to a 6 in Chernivtsi and sentenced to 15 • Stepan Sapeliak, head of SUM
Cathedral of the Assumption of the commemoration of International days and 10 days in jail, respective and the UHU branch in Kharkiv, was
Blessed Virgin Mary in Lviv. Another Human Rights Day on December 10 ly, on administrative charges; threatened in August with a three-
15,000 in Lviv held a mass public in Lviv. • Mr. Gel head of the Citizens' month term of Chornobyl clean-up
rally to commemorate Chornobyl on • A very special public gathering Committee in Defense of the Ukrai work for his activities, but was let off
its anniversary, April 26. took place on November 19 in Kiev nian Catholic Church, served a 15- with a fine and a warning.
• For the second year in a row, this year when thousands of day jail sentence in late April, also 1989 was also the year a coordi
the informal associations in Kiev, mourners joined family, friends and on administrative charges; nating center, c a l l e d D e m o c r a c y
such as the Ukrainian Culturologi- colleagues in the funerals of death and Independence, was formed by
• Mr. C h o r n o v i l , editor of the Western representatives of U S S R
cal Club, the Hromada Society, the camp victims Vasyl Stus, Oleksiy
Ukrainian Herald, spent 15 days in a national-democratic movements in
Kiev UHU branch, and the Ukrainian Tykhy and Yuriy Lytvyn, whose
Lviv prison in late May on charges of Paris on May 6-11 at the written
National Democratic League, held a bodies were returned for Christian
"petty hooliganism"; request of the Coordinating C o u n
commemoration in honor of Taras burial to Ukraine from unmarked
Shevchenko alongside the official graves near Perm Camp 36 in the • Dmytro K o r c h y n s k y , a U H U cil of the national-democratic move
May 22 ceremonies at the Kiev Urals. They were buried in Kiev's and SNUM activist in Kiev, served a ments, which met in Vilnius, Lithua
Shevchenko monument. These Baikiv Cemetery, among some of 15-day term in late July for "or nia, on January 28-29 and in Esto
activists raised a great number of Ukraine's finest poets, intellectuals ganizing illegal demonstrations"; nian on April 30 to May 1.
Ukrainian bfue-and-yellow flags, and historic figures.
tridents and banners, including one
that said: "Long live a Ukrainian
Several of the few remaining
Ukrainian prisoners of conscience
Victims of Stalinism
were freed during 1989, namelv 49- As in other parts of the Soviet had been killed by "the Fascist
independent and sovereign state!"
year-old Serhiy Babych on June 7, Union, many efforts were under occupying forces in 1941-1943."
• R e p r e s e n t a t i v e s of s e v e r a l taken in 1989 to come to grips In 1989 a new government com
semi-formal and informal groups, 62- year-old Petro Saranchuk in F e
bruary, and Pavlo Kampov, all three with the Stalinist past. According mission — the fourth to investi
including Rukh and the UNDL, tpok to Soviet historian Roy Medvedev, gate the mass grave — released a
part in a roundtable discussion on from special-regimen labor camps.
40 million persons were killed, report saying that the thousands
the issue of national symbols with One known Ukrainian prisoner of
arrested or otherwise persecuted buried were victims of Stalin.
representatives of the Ukrainian conscience remains incarcerated,
during the reign of terror of T A S S reported the new findings
S S R Supreme Soviet on July 28 at 50-year-old Bohdan Klymchak, in
Joseph Stalin. on March 24.
the Soviet Peace Committee in Kiev. Perm Camp 35, Mr. Klymchak was
placed in solitary confinement on In Ukraine, a Memorial Society On May 7, the Memorial Society
Although the officials made conces was founded on March 4 in Kiev. organized a mass meeting at
sions to some of the informals' October 30 for taking part in a
hunger strike marking the Day of the Like its namesake in Moscow, the Bykivnia. After a march from Kiev
d e m a n d s regarding Ukrainian society is committed to honoring to the site, a requiem service was
national symbols, members of the Political Prisoner. He is serving a 15-
year-term for "treason" since he the victims of S t a l i n i s m and offered.
UNDL declared a hunger strike to cleansing Soviet society of Stali Meanwhile, the Soviet p r e s s
attempted to escape to Iran in
pressure them into fulfillment of the November 1978. nist vestiges. Among the topics began to write about dark epi
rest of their demands. The UNDL raised at Memorial's founding sodes of the Stalin era. One of
Anatoliy llchenko, a young UHU
activists held their hunger strike on meeting were the famine of 1932- t h e s e w a s the history behind
activist from Mykolayiv, southern
July 29 on the steps of the Ukrai 1933 and the Ukrainian Insurgent Vinnytsia, a city 200 kilometers
Ukraine, was placed in the Dnipro-
nian S S R Supreme Soviet, attract Army (UPA). southwest of Kiev, scene of
petrovske S p e c i a l P s y c h i a t r i c
ing hundreds of supporters, in Hospital in December 1988 for The next day, several thousand m a s s e x e c u t i o n s by S t a l i n ' s
cluding the Kiev UHU branch. c i r c u l a t i n g a petition a g a i n s t people participated in a public h e n c h m e n . S o m e 10,000 were
Although riot police moved in on the nuclear power stations in the Ukrai rally, seeking an honest depiction found to be buried in the mass
crowd, beating and detaining some, nian S S R . He was among 27 patients of history and a rehabilitation of graves of Vinnytsia.
local Rukh activists negotiated their interviewed by a U . S . State innocent victims. The founding And, the Soviet press acknow
release for their moving to another Department-sponsored delegation conference and rally were held on ledged that there are many such
location to continue the strike. of psychiatric experts during a two- the weekend that coincided with mass graves throughout Ukraine.
• On July 29, members of SUM, week inspection of Soviet psychia the 36th anniversary of Stalin's Most recently, another mass
the Kharkiv UHU branch and Rukh tric facilities in March. Mr. llchenko death. grave was unearthed in western
held a protest against Russification was found to be quite sane by the A couple of months later, on U k r a i n e . O n S e p t e m b e r 21 in
in the eastern Ukrainian city. experts and was later released. May 27, the founding conference Demianiv Laz, a nature preserve
• A large rally was organized in UHU activist Stepan Hura of of the Lviv regional Memorial near Pasichna, south of Ivano-
Lviv by Rukh and the UHU on Kherson was placed in a psychiatric Society was held. That confe Frankivske, exhumation began.
August 3 to counter charges in local facility after he was grabbed on his r e n c e , too, was followed by a Some 500 bodies of victims of the
media and newspapers that their way to a UHU Coordinating C o u n mass meeting devoted to filling in great terror have been uncovered
associations incited hostility be cil meeting in Kiev on May 6. He was the "blank spots" of history. along with documents proving
tween national groups in Lviv. reportedly freed in June or July. In March, the world learned of a that they were indeed victims of
• Nearly 30,000 Lviv residents Earlier this year, in March, mass grave just outside of Kiev, in the NKVD, the secret police.
took part in a mass rally and two- Oleksander Bykov, the son of the Bykivnia, where up to 300,000 are A memorial service on October
hour work strike on October 3 to well-known film director Leonid buried — the victims of Stalin, 29 at Demianiv L a s was attended
protest against the violent dispersal Bykov, held a hunger strike in Kiev not, as a government commission by thousands. The unearthed re
by militia of several peaceful demanding that a code on his had stated as late as May 1988, mains were reburied and a tem
demonstrations held in that city on military discharge card, designating victims of the Nazis. A monument porary marker was placed at the
October 1. On that day, a column of him as "insane," are removed by erected at the site then had noted site to indicate that a monument
between 10,000 and 15,000 people authorities. This code reportedly that "6,329 Soviet soldiers, parti to the "victims of the repressions
bearing U k r a i n i a n flags were prevented him for many years from s a n s , m e m b e r s of the under of 1939-1941" is soon to be
dispersed violently as they staged a obtaining employment or admission ground and peaceful c i t i z e n s " erected at Demianiv Laz.
protest in front of Druzhba stadium, to schools and educational institu
where a concert was officially tions.
celebrating the reunification of
During 1989 a number of activists
Ukrainian lands. Several protesters
became victims of so-called "admi
were detained and the bewildered
nistrative terror," that i n c l u d e d
crowd reportedly made its way to a
fines, 10- to 15-day prison terms,
militia station to inquire about the
and other harassment for their acti
detainees. There they were attacked
vities. These included:
by a cordon of militia with rubber
• Ivan Gel, Mykhailo Horyn, Boh
truncheons, who reportedly beat
dan Horyn, Pavlo Skochok, Hry-
w o m e n , c h i l d r e n and elderly,
horiy Prykhodko, Ivan Kandyba and
hospitalizing five victims. Officials
Iryna Kalynets, who were detained
at the October 3 meeting promised
for several hours during President
to investigate and set up a
G o r b a c h e v ' s visit to Lviv on F e
procurator's commission.
bruary 21;
• Twenty factories and institu • Mrs. Kalynets was tried on
tions in Lviv held strikes and March 9-10 on charges of allegedly
meetings on October 26 again to yelling obscenities against Russian
protest the local authorities' un Orthodox Metropolitan Nikodim
willingness to prosecute those during a J a n u a r y 22 moleben in
responsible for police brutality front of St. George's Cathedral, and
against demonstrators on October sentenced to 10 days in jail; lUkraina Society
1. • Mykhailo Horyn and Valeriy
Remains of Stalin victims are reburied after a m a s s grave was
• The first ever officially sanc Kuzmin, head of the Chernivtsi UHU
discovered in Demianiv Laz, outside of Ivano-Frankivske.
tioned meeting organized by the braqch, wepe arrested oq AprP ;
v
1989: A LOOK BACK
while a Ukrainian poetess, Lyubov mic shortages have increased and
Ukraine: endings, beginnings Kovalevska has produced an inde produced a tense situation in some
pendent and damning account of areas. Above all, the current lack of
The year 1989 saw the end of an example of the differences between the health effects of C h o r n o b y l , faith in the party and the Komsomol
unpopular party leader in Ukraine, eastern and western Ukraine, and it parts of which were published in has reached new heights.
Volodymyr Shcherbytsky. His down is this sort of qap that must be filled Literaturna Ukraina. To this observer, it remains un
fall had been widely predicted since if Rukh is to find success, for Ukrai Concern about Chornobyl fos clear whether economic sovereign
1985 by Sovietologists and pundits, nian power has traditionally lain tered the establishment of Zelenyi ty — currently under debate — can
all of whom had "discovered" rea with the industrialized cities of the Zvit ( G r e e n World) in D e c e m b e r resolve Ukraine's economic dilem
sons why his removal was inevitable: east. 1988. Chaired by Dr. Shcherbak, it mas. A republic that has been sys
as a Brezhnev holdover; as a politi Rukh, like the Shevchenko Ukrai has focused also on the deplorable t e m a t i c a l l y s h o r n of its natural
cal victim of Chornobyl; as a Russi- nian Language Society led by 60- environmental situation in Ukraine: resources for an economy geared to
fier in a time of greater cultural year-old poet Dmytro Pavlychko, on factories in Mariupil; on the quantitative output cannot suddenly
awareness; as an impediment to the has sought to make Ukrainian the unsolved hair loss of children of reverse the process. Ukraine's non
progress of perebudova in Ukraine. state language of Ukraine. T h e C h e r n i v t s i ; on the steelworks of renewable resources are depleted,
But it did not happen that way, and Ukrainian S u p r e m e Soviet made Dnipropetrovske. One in four chil its steel and chemical industries —
in fact, the Party Plenum on Septem this desire a reality with an October dren in some eastern cities are said and most certainly its nuclear power
ber 28, attended by Mikhail 28 d e c r e e , stipulating that from to be ill as a result of environmental industry — cannot develop without
Gorbachev, saw Mr. Shcherbytsky January 1, 1990, Ukrainian will be p o l l u t i o n . An u n d e r g r o u n d film due consultation with environmen
nudged into honorable retirement. the state language of the republic, called "Hostages," made in Zapo- tal groups and with the public. This
His replacement, Volodymyr Iva while Russian will be used for com rizhzhia, provided gruesome shots is as it should be, but Ukraine-based
s h k o , 14 y e a r s his junior at 57, munication between nationality of babies, grossly deformed as a agencies will now encounter the
remains an unknown quantity. Two groups. The decree must be regard result of chemical releases into the same sort of problems that have
Ukrainian visitors to the West — ed as a significant achievement on atmosphere. long frustrated the more ruthless
Volodymyr Y a v o r i v s k y and Yuriy the part of the society, which also Z e l e n y i Svit held its founding Moscow-based ministries.
Pokalchuk — have both commented began the year with a founding congress on October 26-28 in Kiev. Finally, as one who peruses the
that they are optimistic about Mr. congress on February 11-12. There appear to be wide differences Ukrainian press on a daily basis, it
Ivashko. It has to be said, however, Turning to the environment, the over future directions. One group, should be acknowledged that the
that there are few logical reasons for year 1989 provided the first accurate led by Dr. Shcherbak, supports the official newspapers have become
such views. Mr. Ivashko has already accounts from an official Ukrainian continuation of the organization as serious discussion sheets. Whilethe
offered harsh opinions on groups source about the effects of Chor an informal pressure lobby; another party leadership has clung to the
that he considers anti-Soviet, such i n c r e a s i n g l y obsolete Pravda U-
as the Ukrainian Helsinki Union and k r a i n y , its U k r a i n i a n - l a n g u a g e
the Ukrainian Democratic Union, counterpart, R a d i a n s k a Ukraina,
and as a former party boss in Mr. has provided s o m e excellent ar
Shcherbytsky's "fiefdom" of Dni- ticles. Literaturna Ukraina is a qua
propetrovske, he is unlikely to look lity newspaper, although limited by
kindly toward Rukh or Popular small circulation, a factor that ap
Movement of Ukraine for Perebu plies even more seriously to Kultura
dova. i Zhyttia, which is to be merged with
For the latter, the year marked the education newspaper, Radian-
notable progress. Rukh published a ska Osvita. Having the conservative
draft program in Literaturna Ukraina Mykola Shybyk as editor has not
on February 16, which was instantly prevented Robitnycha Hazeta from
assailed by the party leadership. highlighting a host of ecological
Rukh, it was claimed, was made up problems in Ukraine; while for sheer
of writers and intellectuals, divorced discussion and debate, Molod U-
from the reality of factory life. The krainy has emerged as the most
Initiative Group, led by Ivan Drach, readable newspaper in the republic
persisted, however. A recent survey — leaving aside newspapers that are
conducted in Kiev has indicated that not exported, s u c h as Vechirniy
the Rukh has widespread support Kyiv.
among the population, particularly T h e future remains uncertain.
in western and central Ukraine. Mr. Ukraine is a politically volatile re
Drach was duly elected its president public, one in which an authentic
at the founding congress held in " p u b l i c o p i n i o n " has developed
Kiev on September 8-10, an event belatedly. There is much catching
perceived by some Ukrainians as up to do, and one perceives a frantic
marking a revival of Ukraine as a nobyl. A J a n u a r y interview with has founded a Green Party, aimed at activity among groups. Omitted
nation. Ukrainian Politburo member Borys more radical action. S u c h diver here is the spiritual development of
It might be more accurate to see Kachura had suggested that few gences have characterized Ukrai Ukraine. Suffice it to say that along
the c o n g r e s s as a starting point health effects had emerged from the nian politics this year. The Greens side the apparent moral bankruptcy
rather than the fruition of s u c h disaster. By March, the govern have s u c c e s s f u l l y c a m p a i g n e d of the party in Ukraine, the simple
ambitions. When Mr. G o r b a c h e v ment's information s e c t i o n was against the Crimean and Chyhyryn faith of the Ukrainian Catholics and
visited R u k h activists in Kiev in demonstrating the opposite. Radio nuclear plants, both of which were the defiance of the Ukrainian Ortho
February, they denied that they active cesium, it noted, had conta shut down on 1989 (in October and dox brethren shines like a veritable
were trying to establish an alterna minated areas of northern Ukraine as May, respectively), but they have beacon of hope. For the academic
tive party. But at the same time, they far west as Rivne Oblast, and south not satisfied a thirst for more funda observor, it is as though an entire
could hardly remain indifferent to of the city of Kiev. Milk products in mental changes. archive has suddenly been opened
the vacuum left by the Ukrainian some areas were 80 times above the The year has seen the emergence up to a frustrated researcher. But
Communist Party in its participation permissible norm. Three films have of a host of new informal groups, like any a r c h i v e , w h e r e a s s o m e
in major events. Both the success circulated that pertain particularly many with their own newspapers roads lead to gold, others lead to
and the problems of Rukh were to the situation in Narodychi Raion, and brochures, some of high qua unknown destinations, not all of
encapsulated in the July coal miners' about 60 miles to the west of the lity. The West has been inundated which are worth pursuing. Ukraine,
strike. The party leadership failed damaged reactor: "Threshold," "Mi- with visitors from Ukraine; Ukrai as a nation, appears to have a future,
manifestly to support the miners' kro-fon!" and "Zapredel." nian society has in a very real sense, but there is as yet no clear indication
d e m a n d s for better provisions, In northern Z h y t o m y r O b l a s t , opened up to the outsider. At the of what that future will look like or
better h o u s i n g , higher pay and hundreds of children have become same time, the republic is facing who will lead the way to it.
longer vacations, and Rukh to some sick with thyroid problems, cata major e c o n o m i c and s o c i a l pro
extent was able to offer material racts of the eyes and general ill blems that frequently take on a — Dr. David Marples
support. nesses resulting from a weakening political form. T h u s the s u m m e r
The miners duly dispatched dele of their immune systems. In dis coal strike led to the formation of the
gations to the founding congress. tricts such as Luhyny, Narodychi Regional Union of Strike Commit
Shortly afterward, however, the and Korosten, residents have been tees of the Donbas, which has taken
Voroshylovhrad branch withdrew consuming contaminated products actual power in some mining com
from Rukh, on the grounds that they for more than three years. Moscow munities. The lack of political free
were alienated by the national sym N e w s , interviewing writers Yuriy dom led to widespread demands for
bols on display. They did not com Shcherbak and Ales Adamovich, changes to the electoral law, which
prehend the meaning of the tryzub published an article titled "The Big provides a guaranteed 25 percent of
and the blue-and-yellow flag. More Lie." A Soviet reporter, Andrei I llesh, seats in a future Ukrainian Supreme
seriously, they did not know Ukrai revealed that there have been more i Soviet to the party and its affiliates
nian. One could hardly find a better than 250 Chornobyl-related deaths, (Komsomol, trade unions)! Econo
1989: A LOOK BACK
tional day of prayer; and on Septem
O u r Churches ber 17 when between 150,000 and
Although the Millennium year, administrative step, which may be 250.000 faithful marched in Lviv to
1988, made headlines as Ukrainian granted, according to Western au demand restoration of their Church's
Christians celebrated 1,000 years of thorities on Church matters, with legal status. T h i s demonstration
the Christianization of Rus'-Ukraine, the passage of the Soviet law on was, reportedly, to date, the largest
It was 1989 that was a landmark year freedom of c o n s c i e n c e in early demonstration of Ukrainian Catho
for believers in the Soviet Union, as 1990. lics since World War II.
the government relaxed its reins on U k r a i n i a n C a t h o l i c b i s h o p s in On October 29, the congregation
religious freedom for believers. Ukraine drew attention to the plight of the Church of the Transfigura
T h e C h u r c h that p e r h a p s won of their Church in May, when they tion in Lviv, following its priest,
most media attention and made the d e c i d e d to meet with the newly became a Ukrainian Catholic
most progress in its demands was appointed chairman of the Council Church, changing allegiance from
the Ukrainian Catholic, which is also for Religious Affairs in the Soviet the Russian Orthodox Church
known as the Ukrainian G r e e k - Union, Yuriy Khristoradnov, who ( R O C ) . For weeks afterwards, the
Catholic (referring to the Eastern replaced longtime chairman Kon- congregation was accused of taking
rite) and Uniate (a pejorative re stantin Kharchev. the church by force; the R O C
ferring to the 1596 Union C f Brest, They staged a hunger strike in the hierarchs, including Archbishop
when Ukrainians signed allegiance reception area of the building of the Kirill, who was appointed the chair
to Rome), S u p r e m e Soviet until they were man of the R O C ' s foreign relations
After the emergence of some of its granted a meeting with the chair department, spread this news in the
underground hierarchs in August man of the Council for Religious media, however, Canadian and
1987, the C h u r c h ' s believers be Affairs. Although they did not come French broadcast crews present at
came more vocal, signing petitions to any definite a g r e e m e n t s after the events of October 29, as well as
marching through streets of western their meeting with the Soviet chair Lviv Mayor Bohdan Kotyk acknow
U k r a i n i a n c i t i e s , staging hunger man, they did bring up their con ledged that no v i o l e n c e w a s
strikes and demanding the return of cerns in regard to the Ukrainian displayed at the Church of the
Ukrainian Catholic churches and Catholic Church. T h e hierarchs Transfiguration.
the rehabilitation of the Church that went back to western Ukraine, but a Since that time thousands of
was liquidated in a staged synod delegation of 400 Ukrainian Catho Ukrainian Catholic faithful attend
inspired by Stalinist terror in March lic faithful gathered in Moscow to services at the church daily. T h e
1946. hold a moleben in front of the Rev. Myroslav Tataryn of St. Catha
At one point, local Soviet authori M o s k v a Hotel. A s newly e l e c t e d rines, Ontario, holds the distinction
ties and the K G B in Ukraine ap members of t h e C o n g r e s s of of having served liturgy there in late
proached Ukrainian Catholic People's Deputies filed past them to November, the first of Western
bishops with an offer that they would their sessions, the faithful asked clergy to do so.
be allowed to hold religious services them to bring up the legalization of On November 26, a day of prayer
and fasting proclaimed by Cardinal |WCC Photo: Peter Wiliams
without interference if they were the Church during their meetings. A Ukrainian Catholic protester in
held in Latin rite churches in U- Ukrainian Catholic hunger strikers Lubachivsky, once again thousands
of faithful in western Ukraine took Moscow in July.
kraine. T h e Ukrainian Catholic Press continued staging protests in front
Bureau in Rome reported on March of the Ukrainskaya Kniga bookstore part in liturgies and molebens on the
lievers, gathered in late February in
15 that Church sources in U- on M o s c o w ' s Arbat through the eve of ihe summit between Pope
the city center of Lviv to hold a
kraine dismissed the offers as a summer months, callinq attention to John Paul II and Soviet President
requiem service on the occasion of
maneuver to divert serious discus their Church during a World Council Mikhail Gorbachev at the Vatican.
the 128th anniversary of the death of
sion of the U C C ' s legalization. of Churches session in Moscow in Just five days later they received Taras Shevchenko.
By the end of 1989, Ukrainian July. Their strike continued from news that, indeed, congregations Both Ukrainian Catholic and U-
C a t h o l i c s were registering their mid-May through mid-September would be allowed to register a s krainian Orthodox Churches found
congregations with local councils until they were arrested on Monday, Ukrainian Catholic. Ukrainian C a many good friends, public figures
for religious affairs, in compliance September 18, and ordered back to tholics, members of the Committee both in the West and in the Soviet
with a d e c r e e by the republican western Ukraine. in D e f e n s e of the R i g h t s of the Union who spoke out in support of
Council for Religious Affairs issued Ukrainian Catholics marched en Ukrainian Catholic Church, headed the legalization of both Churches.
on November 28 and proclaimed on masse along the streets of western by former political prisoner Ivan Gel, Among those were the late dissident
December 1, which coincided with U k r a i n i a n c i t i e s on a number of rejoiced at the news and began and Nobel Peace Prize winner An
the meeting of Pope John Paul II o c c a s i o n s over the y e a r to call urging that congregations register. drei Sakharov who, on a number of
and Soviet President Mikhail Gorba attention to the plight of their More than 600 reportedly registered occasions, including during visits
chev at the Vatican, also on the first church, most notably on June 18 by the end of 1989. to Italy and Canada, and an au
day of December. Now, as the new when 100,000 faithful participated in In a true spirit of ecumenism, in dience with Cardinal Lubachivsky,
decade unfolds, Ukrainian Catho public services in Ivano-Frankivske, Lviv more than 25,000 Ukrainian c a l l e d for the legalizaton of the
lics continue to press for the legali responding to Cardinal Myroslav Catholics and Ukrainian Orthodox, Ukrainian Catholic Church.
zation of their Church, a legal, not Lubachivsky's call for an interna as well as Russian Orthodox be- The U.S. State Department spoke
out for religious freedom in Ukraine,
as did the Helsinki Commission,
which supported the right to free
dom of worship on a number of
occasions. At the Conference on the
Human Dimension in Paris this past
J u n e U.S. A m b a s s a d o r Morris
Abram said:
"And even when a faith is forced to
accept the requirement of registra
tion, why must some denominations
be denied recognition, in violation
of the Vienna Concluding Docu
ment? For example, the Ukrainian
Catholic Church and the Ukrainian
Orthodox Church continue not to be
recognized by Soviet authorities."
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Oleh Mahlay. For more information tional Ukrainian carols at noon in
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