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22 from a general psychiatric hospital to a special psychiatric hospital in the MVD system. This decision may be appealed in Lviv Regional Court, within the next seven days. Presiding judge — Mamchur Ya. S. People’s assessors — Ratych M. M., Yu- nyk S. M. Conforms with the original document: Head of the People’s Court — Ya. S. Mamchur. It is interesting to know why poems written in a state of “schizophrenic de lirium” are dangerous to the CPSU and why an escape to Moscow is an im measurable crime?! Is it possible that those who treat Ra- falskyi so cruelly are so sure of their impunity? Is it possible that they think their attempts to destroy a Ukrainian patriot will be drowned in the Lethe?2 Behind the psychiatrists and the Soviet Court stands the KGB — itself a terrible criminal. It is responsible for all the crimes committed by the authorities. The Catholic Church considers the sentence of compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital, passed upon Rafalskyi, to be a plain encroachment on the life of a Ukrainian poet, and we shall never forget the victim of the high-handedness of the KGB or those who torment him. Pray for the martyr Rafalskyi! Protest! Ukrainians! From the 3rd to the 9th of May, many Catholics and non-Catholics, on the ter ritory of Transcarpathian Ukraine, re ceived notification from the Military Commissariat about the call-up of re servists, apparently due to the worsening situation of the USSR. What is this? This is an obvious provocation on the part of the Muscovite occupants. There is no si tuation of tension. They want to throw you into the carnage of Afghanistan. The conscience of every member of the Ukrainian nation will be with him. De cide for yourselves which way to turn your weapons and your hate, according to your conscience and the faith of your father and grandfathers, which is scorned and destroyed by Moscow... Recently the authorities began to use the term “neo-Uniates”. W hat is this? Where do they originate from and do they exist? Basically, the authorities are pre sently seeking ways of discrediting our Ukrainian Catholic Church. Therefore, the KGB has brought into use the term “neo-Uniates” in place of the old name “penitents” [pokutnyky — in Ukrainian]. It is perfectly obvious that a “Uniate” is someone who has united with Rome. In that case, with whom have the KGB’s “neo-Uniates” formed a union? This ill- considered provocation at the hands of the KGB eventually made its way to the texts of broadcasts by “Radio Liberty”. But, it is easier for them than for any one else, to get the true facts from Pa triarch Josyf I, the head of our Church. Even the fraction of “penitents” do not call themselves “neo-Uniates”. They do not call themselves “penitents” either, but true Catholics. What is more, after the departure of Fr. Antin Potochnyak from this “movement”, the main body of faithful returned to their previous po sitions, and the few dozen who remained on the instructions of the KGB, suddenly by someone’s ill-considered move, became “neo-Uniates”. Only a person unversed in the matters of the faith can use the term "neo-Uniates”. Thus, it is even more un usual that the Ukrainian department of “Radio Liberty” found it possible to de vote time to the “neo-Uniates”, who do not exist. However, someone has brought this information to the “Radio” ! Our faithful often ask why our (Ukrain ian) department of the “R adio” does not devote its attention to the religious up bringing of our youth? They tell us to write to Nadiyka, but it is not Svitlychna 23 who puts together the programmes. They ask why there is so much “water” in the programmes, why the Russian department of “Liberty” is more interesting than ours, and thousands of other questions. “Why?” ...We explain to them that we do not have any influence at all on the composition of radio broadcasts. The only thing we can do is to ask "Radio Vatican” for a Ukrainian section, so that after the service, it could broadcast more materials on Church unity, and also the artistic creations and musical compositions of our national poets, composers and writers. To the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from citizen Kobryn, Vasyl Antonovych. STATEMENT On the 1st of November, 1979, the peo ple of Lviv, according to Christian tradi tion, came down to the Yanivskyi ce metery to visit the graves of their de ceased parents and relatives, so that on that day they could remember them in their prayers. I also came to the cemetery to visit the graves of my relatives and close friends. When I was walking past the graves of the Sich Riflemen, I saw how the KGB and the militia walked aroud in lines kicking over with the toe- caps of their boots the candles and wreaths, which the people of Lviv had placed on the graves of their sons and fathers during the night... I walked up to a demolished grave and replaced a candle, which had been tram pled into the snow. I did as was required of a Christian. Then about 5 or 6 men in uniform jumped upon me and began to beat me up without uttering a single word. At the same time, the KGB men were forcing me to knock the candle off the grave. I refused... After that, the militia led me away to the administrative building of the ce metery, where they searched me and began to interrogate me. I refused to answer their questions, stating that all this was a breach of Soviet law. They began to beat me once again, swearing and re proaching me as a nationalist. Then some official of the KGB walked in, took a bunch of flowers, which had been taken away from an old woman, from the table and said that he will place these flowers on the grave of her... (he expressed him self using an obscene word) Kozak (a communist killed in the 1930s). I could not bear this and said that nobody talks about the dead like that, especially about their fellow communist. The KGB man replied that everyone in “Banderivshchy- na”3 is a “Banderite”4 and if he personally was in charge then he would shoot every body... There is nothing strange about this for the organs of the KGB are filled with people to whom nothing is sacred, and what is more, people who are the bitter enemies of Ukraine. The KGB are uncontrolled criminals in the service of the state, which cannot do without these “oprychnyky”.5 After the brainwashing, I was led away to the district court, where, without any of the normal customary procedures, the judge read out his decision — 15 days of arrest. When I asked for what reason and where in Soviet law it is stated that people should be put on trial for visiting the graves of the Sich Riflemen, he shout ed out that they [the militia] should take me away and give me a good seeing to for I was too clever. After the trial, I declared a hunger strike. On the 6th day, the public prosecutor came down and began a conversation with me. He put all sorts of provocative ques tions to me, called me a nationalist and finally gave orders that I should be taken to the regional psychiatric hospital. This was done by the militia and the mur derers in white coats. The doctors asked me why I had been arrested by the militia. When I replied 24 that they arrested me for visiting the graves of the Sich Riflemen0, they began to laugh. Then one of the doctors said that they will treat me for a while and I would be cured of the “Banderite” non sense... After 15 days, the senior doctor, My- ziuk B. U., summoned me and said that if I did not go to the graves any more, I would be released. In his final report on me he put down “psychopathy”. I did not know that my relatives had raised their voices on my behalf and were an xious to secure my release. The doctor went on to say that if I had not been a Ukrainian Catholic, then most probably no one would have bothered me. One should not think that the commu nists of Moscow have destroyed only Ukrainian graves. No! The city of Lviv is full of graves from the tragic invasions of various nations, with the exception of Russian graves... Soldiers of the Polish armies were buried at the same time as the Sich Riflemen. Their graves have also been destroyed. I would like to add that these graves were built not long before the so-called Soviet rule in Russia it self. The Polish community, at its own leisure, erected magnificent monuments to the American, English and French of ficers who fought on the side of the Poles against the UNR,7 but it never oc curred to anyone to destroy these graves. And yet, the KGB troublemakers not only destroyed, but dishonoured these graves as well. They built garages on top of them! In the 1930s, the Ukrainian community built magnificent monuments to the Tur kish and German soldiers of the First World War. They met the same fate as the Polish graves... The Jewish cemetery was not left in peace either. The start was made by the “Hitlerites”, the former allies of Moscow, and now there are sand quarries in the place where the Jewish cemetery once was. From long ago, the Ukrainian people have respect for the graves of their an cestors. This is one of our national cults. As far back as the era of the Cossacks, our people raised huge mounds over their graves and placed crosses on the top. Now there are no Cossack graves. They have been destroyed by the most terrible oc cupant that history has ever known... The respect for graves is part of our national culture, part of our integrity, which you destroy with such cruelty and hatred. The sin itself, of desecrating graves, com mitted by people is terrible in itself, but you have overstepped all the bounds of what is permitted. You have spat in the face of all the nations of the world. Such is your culture. But what can one say when the fresh grave of the composer, V. Ivasiuk, was burnt on the very night after he was buried. All this is the work of the criminals and bandits of the KGB. I will not mention the Constitution and the law for the USSR does not have them, it has never had them and it never will... I have written this statement in the hope that the matter of the graves and monu ments will be resolved positively. What has been destroyed cannot be restored... But, you should bear in mind what will happen in the near future to your graves, where unwanted Russian “guests” are buried on our land. The graves are part of the history of our ancestors. 22nd January, 1980. 9k On the 21st of May of this year [1984], Dr. Volodymyr Horbovyi died at the age of 88. On 23rd May, the fiercest national revolutionary of Ukraine was buried in his native town. V. Horbovyi knew I. Franko personally and was acquainted with many activists of the national movement of Ukraine. In 1919, he was wounded at Koziatyn, in a battle with the Muscovite invader. In 1922, he was sentenced to death by hang ing by the regime of Pilsudski. He escaped from prison. He spent his time in hiding 25 and after some time escaped across the border into the territory of Trans- carpathian Ukraine, which had been rip ped apart into 4 parts. Subcarpathian Rus’8 was formed out of Western Trans- carpathia. He lived in Paris and Bratislava. He was a member of the OUN and at the same time head of the Ukrainian N a tional Committee. During the war, the Gestapo arrested him along with S. Ban dera” and Ya. Stetsko.10 He was incarcer ated in Maobitski prison.11 In 1947, he was arrested in “new” Poland for escaping the punishment of Marshal Pilsudski in 1922. In 1949, the Polish authorities handed V. Horbovyi over to the Soviets. He was the only person ever to have been im prisoned at the decision of the Central Committee of the CPSU. He spent 25 years in Soviet concentration camps. May the memory of the national hero of Ukraine, Dr. Horbovyi, be everlasting! On Easter Day, the functioning church in the village of Dobrianske, Tyachevskyi district, Transcarpathian region, was closed down by force. The motives were exactly the same [as in the other villages] — the villagers did not want a Muscovite priest. After a brawl with the militia and its assistants, the local Orthodox priest was arrested, supposedly for being a secret Uniate under whose influence the villagers started the fight with the authori ties. Five villagers were also arrested... 9)6 Who knows how many times the authorities have already threatened the head of the Central Committee of Ukrain ian Catholics, Yosyp Terelya, with physical punishment. This time, after the last “chat” and a proposition by the district public prosecutor, Stepan Brayila, who has even set a date for this — the 10th of June this year [1984], Yosyp Terelya has to consider the whole issue and come out with a proposition for the secession of the Ukrainian Catholic Church from the in fluence of the Pope. As a result of this, the authorities will give freedom to the so-called "Autocephalous Ukrainian Ca tholic Church”... Interesting! The authori ties say that the Ukrainian Catholic Church does not exist — that it was thought up by the Ukrainian emigrants together with Patriarch Josyf Slipyj. If this is so, to whom does Moscow want to “give” autocephaly? What kind of Catho lic Church would it be without the Vat ican? Why was Fr. Antin Potochnyak murdered? In the years 1958-1959, in connection with the ascent of the Catholic Church in Ukraine, the Kremlin had the intention of creating dissention among the ranks of the Church. With this in mind, agents of the KGB were implanted among the under ground members of the Catholic Church. Of particular note was KGB Major Volo- dymyr Demchenko, a Ukrainian from the Donetsk region, who said that he loved the Eastern rite of the Catholic Church and also that he was a former employee of the KGB but had now repented and understood everything... The KGB did not choose the time after the death of Pope Pius X II for nothing. The Pope’s death served the purpose of covering up the long-term aims of Moscow, which it failed to achieve... V. Demchenko acquired from some where a “document”, which stated that Pope Pius X II had been poisoned. This was the base upon which the KGB built its long-term goals... At the same time, informers from among the camp “squealers” were also im planted. They had the task of influencing the faithful with their authority under the cover of their past. In this way, Oleksa Hnydin, a citizen of Lviv born in 1929, made his way into the under ground. This agent provocateur carried 26 out a special task in the movement of “penitents” in Ukraine. O. Hnydin be trayed a group of patriots who were planning the assassination of Khrushchev in 1961. This was a double provocation. Three people were shot and the remaining 19 received varying sentences of imprison ment. But, the most important thing is that those who had led to this affair dis appeared somewhere without trace. Oleksa Hnydin also disappeared. In order to save the Church and to pre vent the KGB from preparing a split, Fr. Antin Potochnyak joined the KGB’s movement of “penitents”, on the instruc tions of the OUN. The work carried out by Fr. Antin was immense. With his authority, he prevented those faithful who had been allured from going down the path along which the agents of the KGB and the whole net of agents provo cateurs from among the “formers”, were pushing them. In 1982, Fr. Antin step ped forward and opened the eyes of very many faithful, as a result of which the main body returned to their former po sition. At this time, Fr. Antin was already a member of the UNF (Ukrainian N a tional Front), which was formed in 1964 by Dmytro Kvetsko, a teacher, and Zi noviy Krasivskyi, a poet. At the moment, there are only 10 “penitents” in Transcarpathian Ukraine, who actually believe in the “revelations” of the KGB and remain in their present positions. In addition, 117 such people remain in Halychyna and Pokuttya... The final work of the agent provoca teur, O. Hnydin, was the arrest of Semen Skalych. The agent provocateur handed over all his archives, poems and notes to the KGB, and S. Skalych was locked away in a concentration camp in Perm for 15 years... On the 29th of May, Fr. Antin Po tochnyak was murdered. He was murdered out of revenge and awareness of the fact that the KGB had failed to create a split (in the Ukrainian Catholic Church)... On the 28th of May, after his last “lavage” of the stomach, the sick Fr. Antin Potochnyak began to feel better. But, this came from the mouths of the murderers. On the 29th of May, his stomach became unusually bloated. The prison doctors said it was from porridge and milk... At 9 o’clock local time, Fr. Antin died The 72 year-old Ukrainian Catholic priest was tortured to death —■ murdered. May his memory be eternal! Fr. Antin was born in 1912. After completing the Ecclesiastical Academy, he studied in Rome. He was an active par ticipant of the national movement. In 1944, Fr. Antin was a military com mander of the UPA. In 1947, he was sentenced to 25 years of concentration camps. He carried out a whole line of responsible tasks of the Ukrainian Catho lic Church. On the whole, Fr. Antin spent over 29 years in prisons and concentra tion camps. In 1982, he became a member of the Initiative Group to Defend the Rights of Believers and the Church in Ukraine. Along with this, Fr. Antin was a member of the Central Leadership of the UNF, as a member of its Executive Com mittee. He was a faithful son of Ukraine, who devoted his entire conscious life to Ukraine and his people. The murder of the priest had been thought up and decided in advance. The camp doctor, Captain Talyzin, and the camp commandant, Lt. Col. Povshenko, both of whom live in Lviv, are respon sible for his murder! Murderers, who fear fully hide their eyes, filled with blood, walk along the streets of our native city... They will not be forgiven! Only the Lord God can forgive them... but such people do not repent. They just prepare them selves for new crimes because that is what their Party orders them to do... 27 Bern, Switzerland, The International Christian Solidarity. Brothers! Friends! The task of the Church is to bring peo ple round to recognise the will of God. And every particular Church aspires to propagate the will of our God, Who died on the cross for us and for our sins, and Who rose from the dead on the third day, as was written in the Holy Scripture. Our Ukrainian Catholic Church also aspires towards this. Our Church is one of the servants of Jesus Christ, for just as Jesus was persecuted and crucified, so our Church has been persecuted and crucified by the atheist communists. We do not have the right to live and to exist. We are persecuted and without any rights! Jesus Christ said: “...men will hand you over to their courts, they will flog you in the synagogues, and you will be brought before governors and kings, for my sake...” (Mat. 10:17-18). Every true Christian de sires to win Christ’s love and favour in everything, even in His death, for it is by this very thing that true Christians are distinguished... And it is true that: “...who does not take up his own cross and follow in My footsteps, he is not worthy of Me” (Mat. 10:38). No one can say how many martyrs have given their lives for the love bequeathed to us by Jesus Christ. The rulers of the Kremlin decided for us and for the whole world, that the faith must be destroyed, and the Catholic Church with it... Moscow took upon itself this mission of Satan. It took it and stepped out against truth, sowing seeds of wickedness and hatred among the peoples of our planet, setting alight quarrels and military conflicts and threatening the world with nuclear war in order to paralyze the will of the peo ple through fear, and to force the peoples to bow down before the Prince of Dark ness, and to reduce everyone and every thing to the same level, to brand every one with the mark of callousness and the negation of truth. How can Christian solidarity oppose the atheist communists? It can do so with truth and the freedom of speech! Why do the rulers of the Kremlin destroy with such cruelty everything that is merely connected with the name of God? Why is there such hatred towards the Ukrainian Catholic Church? Our Church has never bowed its head before violence and evil. It has always remained with its people. The Church has taught to love, but it also teaches to resist... Without our Church we would become like our brothers in Eastern Ukraine, where there is only one church between ten villages, if even that. Jesus has been stolen from our people, the spirit of love and the spirit of solidarity have been destroyed, and our faithful and priests, who are spreading the Christian mission throughout the whole of Ukraine and also in Russia, are persecuted with hatred. In 1982, during my stay in Moscow, I was arrested in the apartment of a Russian Christian, Lena Sannikova. The people, who arrested me, took me down to the 10th Department of the militia, where the KGB conducted a “chat” with me, during which they de manded that I agree to emigrate and also threatened me for propagating the idea of unity of Churches. One of the KGB men said: “Is Ukraine not enough for you? Why the devil are you preaching papism to the Russians? We are Ortho dox”. Thus, the KGB include themselves in the Orthodox Church. To my question that in this case why do they destroy every Christian Church, he replied that we are spies and traitors. As if my friends and I swore allegiance to Moscow. Ukrainian Catholics will never bow their heads before evil and violence. We have chosen to love and to fight! Our Church is grateful to our friends from the International Christian Solidarity. We are Download Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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