Raisa Moroz Thanks Ukrainians In West for Aiding Husband (12/26/76)

Raisa Moroz Thanks Ukrainians In West for Aiding Husband

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Immediately after learning that her husband, Valentyn Moroz, was declared sane by the Serbsky Institute of Forensic Psychiatry, Raisa Moroz sent a letter to Ukrainians in the West thanking them for their defense action which she believes contributed to his release from the asylum.

"I am overwhelmed by your attention and efforts to help alleviate the fate of my husband, Moroz Valentyn," she wrote in her letter to Ukrainians in the United States, Canada and in all European countries."

Copies of the message, which were received here by the press service of the Supreme Ukrainian Liberation Council (abroad), are being circulated in dissident circles in Ukraine.

The letter, dated June 21, 1976, was written during Moroz's confinement in Moscow's Butyrska Prison. He has subsequently been transferred to the Mordovian prison colonies in accordance with the second part of his three-part sentence.

"I want to share my happiness and thanks with everyone who did not remain apathetic to my husband's plight," she wrote.

Mrs. Moroz also authored another letter to non-Ukrainians around the world who also joined in the defense action at the time when the 40-year-old Ukrainian dissident historian was threatened with imprisonment in a psychiatric asylum.

The letter was addressed to Amnesty International, Committee Against Psychiatric Abuse for Political Reason, The European Federation of Psychoanalysts, PEN Club, the United States Congress, the Committee to Monitor Compliance with the Helsinki Accords, and "all people and organizations which troubled themselves with the plight of Moroz."

"I do not doubt that the active interest of Westerners in the matters of our country saved my husband from a horrible fate," she wrote.

She said that while he was not confined in the Sherbsky institute, she will demand that he is immediately moved to a labor camp as is prescribed by the sentence. She also asked for further assistance from the West for her husband.

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