(Born December 22, 1956, in the settlement of Stekolny, 72 km from Magadan – Died November 17, 1997, in Chicago, USA).
Member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, leader of the Ukrainian Christian-Democratic Party.
Son of participants in the national liberation struggle and political prisoners, Stefania Petrash and Petro Sichko, who were released into exile after 10 years of imprisonment. In 1957, on Easter, the family returned to the village of Vytvytsia, Dolyna raion, in the Stanislavshchyna region, and in 1958, they settled in the town of Dolyna. Sichko was an excellent student, preparing to become a journalist, and was the winner of a competition held by the regional newspaper “Komsomolskiy Prapor,” with 22 publications to his name. In 1974, he graduated from the 10th grade of Dolyna secondary school No. 1, but he was not admitted to the journalism faculty of Lviv University as he was the son of former political prisoners. He worked for a year as a lathe operator at the Strutynsky Metal Products Plant. In 1975, he secretly enrolled in the journalism faculty of Kyiv University. Two weeks later, his father was summoned to the KGB, where he was offered cooperation, or else his son would not last more than two years at the university. His father replied, “I would rather see my children in prison than with traitorous diplomas.”
In 1976-77, Sichko wrote the articles “Crosses on the Road” and “Why are the Soviet People Silent.” These were later used to incriminate him as anti-Soviet. In January 1977, his Russian language teacher, Parakhina, gave Sichko a failing grade on an exam, arguing that he did not comply with her demand to speak Russian in the dormitory and in the city and that he had a bad accent. Dean Dmytro Pryliuk did not accept his term paper on the topic of “Protection of Our Native Nature” because Sichko had cited Oles Honchar's novel “The Cathedral.” The party organizer Anatoliy Pohribnyi did not give him a passing grade. On July 20, by rector's order No. 506, Sichko was expelled from the journalism faculty “for academic failure.” Sichko appealed the baseless refusal to allow him to take his exams, and on August 12, he sent a statement to the Central Committee of the CPSU about his unlawful expulsion from the university. The response came from the Ministry of Education of the UkrSSR, stating that Sichko was expelled for “academic arrears.” On September 18, he then surrendered his USSR citizen's documents to the Moskovskyi district police department in Kyiv and published a statement renouncing his Soviet citizenship, demanding permission to emigrate to the USA to obtain citizenship there and a higher education. He also surrendered his Komsomol membership card to the Central Committee of the LKSMU. Since he had no contact with human rights defenders or the outside world, Sichko’s father traveled to Moscow, went into a synagogue, prayed there, and left a package of documents—his and his son's—under a wall. A few days later, Radio Liberty from Munich was already talking about them.
On November 4, 1977, the police were searching for Sichko to commit him to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation, as he allegedly intended to set himself on fire on Khreshchatyk in Kyiv during the November 7 demonstration. He went into hiding, and his father was detained for several days. On January 17, 1978, Sichko was treacherously seized by KGB agents and taken in handcuffs to the Ivano-Frankivsk psychiatric hospital for evaluation. On January 31, Sichko's father managed to get an appointment with the chief psychiatrist of the USSR Ministry of Health, A. O. Churkin, who said that in Soviet psychiatry, renouncing citizenship was considered schizophrenia. However, Sichko was released that same day.
On February 26, 1978, Sichko, and on April 30, his father, became members of the Ukrainian Public Group to Promote the Implementation of the Helsinki Accords, and their names appeared on UHG documents. On October 20, Sichko was summoned for questioning by the KGB, and on November 3, KGB officers Sokhan and Petrunya conducted a “conversation” with the Sichkos in their home.
On January 9, 1979, P. and V. Sichko forced their way into the courtroom where the trial of UHG member Vasyl Striltsiv was taking place and appealed to the prosecution witnesses not to go against their conscience and not to yield to KGB pressure. On March 7, a 10-hour search was conducted at the Sichkos' home in connection with the case of Oles Berdnyk. On April 20, they were summoned to the KGB.
On May 22, 1979, the day of composer Volodymyr Ivasyuk's funeral in Lviv, P. and V. Sichko and V. Striltsiv were summoned to the KGB in Ivano-Frankivsk. On June 10, Trinity Sunday, Sichko spoke at a public memorial service at Lychakiv Cemetery, saying that V. Ivasyuk did not commit suicide—he was murdered. He took a flower and made a vow: “Friend, we will continue the fight against the enemies who destroyed you; we will fight until Ukraine is free and independent.” His father supported his son and called on those present to support the activities of the UHG.
On June 27, 1979, the prosecutor of the Lviv oblast initiated a criminal case against P. and V. Sichko under Article 187-I of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR (“dissemination of defamatory fabrications that denigrate the Soviet state and social system”), and on July 5, they were detained. Sichko was taken to the Lviv psychiatric hospital for evaluation, where he spent 40 days. On July 24, his mother, S. Petrash, appealed to the Lviv regional forensic psychiatric examination commission regarding her son’s case, and on August 10, to Dr. Burdeynyi of the Ivano-Frankivsk psychiatric hospital. On August 14, he was declared sane and arrested. On the same day, his mother accidentally saw her son in the hospital courtyard.
On September 26, the preliminary investigation in the Sichkos’ case was completed, and on November 22, they were presented with the indictment. Both refused to sign it. On December 4, 1979, a trial of P. and V. Sichko was held at the Lviv Regional Court, of which the family was not informed. The defendants did not stand, did not participate in the proceedings, and refused to give a final statement. The verdict: the son received 3 years in an intensified-regime camp, and the father, 3 years in a strict-regime camp. On December 10, the Sichkos refused to receive copies of the verdict or to file an appeal.
On December 11, a visit with his mother, sister Oksana, and brother Volodymyr was granted, which resulted in his brother being expelled from the 3rd year of the mechanics and mathematics faculty of Kyiv State University and later imprisoned. On December 24, he was allowed a one-hour visit with his father. At the end of December, Sichko was transferred to Cherkasy, to the intensified-regime camp ECh-325/62. He dug trenches on a construction site.
On February 16, 1980, he had a two-hour visit, and on March 3, a 24-hour visit with his mother. He was brought out exhausted, hungry, and depressed by the unbearable environment. Sichko asked his mother to appeal to the Association of Jurists to demand a review of the status of political prisoners and the transfer of all political prisoners to a separate camp.
Sichko’s letters were held back, and his mother’s visits usually resulted in his being placed in a punishment cell. For example, on September 12, 1981, when his mother and sister arrived, Sichko was suddenly “found to have dysentery bacilli” and hospitalized. His mother and daughter declared a hunger strike in protest. During their next visit on October 12, he was put in a punishment cell.
On December 3, 1981, six months before the end of his prison term, Sichko was accused of “possession of narcotic substances without intent to distribute.” On December 10, 1981, the judicial department of the Prydniprovskyi district police of Cherkasy opened criminal case No. 1080 under Art. 229-6, part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR. On January 4, 1982, the Prydniprovskyi district court of Cherkasy, in a cell of the pre-trial detention center, sentenced Sichko to 3 years of imprisonment in strict-regime camps. His mother was not allowed to attend the trial. Sichko then served his sentence in the strict-regime camp IV-301/86 in Vinnytsia. On February 16, 1982, the Supreme Court of the Ukrainian SSR reviewed S. Petrash’s appeal against her son's sentence in just two minutes.
Released on July 7, 1985, he was placed under administrative supervision for a year. He found a job at the sawmill of a reinforced concrete products plant in Dolyna, but an X-ray revealed tuberculosis that was more than a year old. He spent a year undergoing treatment. In 1987, he married Lesia, and in 1988, their son Petro was born, followed by their daughter Stefania in 1991.
On March 11, 1988, the “Appeal of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group to the Ukrainian and World Public on the Resumption of Its Activities” was made public, with V. and P. Sichko among the 19 signatories. In April 1988, Sichko wrote the program and statutes for the Ukrainian Christian-Democratic Front. On April 26, the second anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster, the UCDF raised the blue-and-yellow flag for the first time at a rally in Lviv. In the spring of 1988, there were hunger strikes and rallies in Halychyna and Moscow demanding the legalization of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Sichko was one of the organizers and was arrested several times for his involvement.
November 1, 1988, is the official founding date of the UCDF (Chairman – Sichko; founding congress on January 13, 1989; from April 21, 1990 – UCDP). In May 1989, on the 10th anniversary of V. Ivasyuk’s death, the UCDF organized a memorial service at the Lychakiv Cemetery; on June 4 – an environmental rally in Kalush; on June 11 – the first unsanctioned environmental rally in Dolyna, for which Sichko was arrested for 10 days on June 12. On July 5 – an “anniversary” search of the Sichkos' home. On July 7, V. and P. Sichko were arrested for 15 days for organizing rallies. In August, Sichko was beaten at the railway station in Stryi.
In July 1990, Sichko participated in a conference of the European Parliament in Luxembourg and was a delegate to the congress of the World Anti-Communist League in Brussels.
In 1994, Sichko was a candidate for the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in the Ivano-Frankivsk constituency No. 157.
From 1995, Sichko was the Honorary Chairman of the UCDP with the right of veto. On May 27, 1996, he went to the USA. On the night of June 21-22, 1996, he was poisoned on the Kyiv-Lviv train, after which he went back to the USA. On November 16, 1997, in his last telephone conversation with his father, he said he was returning to Ukraine with the intention of leading the UCDP again. On November 17, he died in a fire at his apartment. On November 30, 1997, thanks to the efforts of his brother Volodymyr, his body was brought to Lviv. On December 2, he was buried next to his mother in the Lychakiv Cemetery.
By a presidential decree of November 8, 2006, members of the UHG, including Petro, Vasyl, and Stefania Petrash, were awarded the Order “For Courage,” 1st degree.
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Volodymyr Kaplun, Vasyl Ovsiyenko. Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group. March 7-8, 2004. Last read July 23, 2016.
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Archive of Petro Sichko (letters, documents, manuscripts, photographs).
Archive of Myron Buchatsky.
Museum-Archive of Ukrainian Samvydav of the “Smoloskyp” ICF.
Archive of Nina Strokata-Karavanska at the Sixtiers Museum in Kyiv.
Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group Archive, including audio recordings of interviews with Petro Sichko on July 7, 1998, Feb. 4, 2000, and Volodymyr Sichko on Dec. 17, 2002.
Compiled by Vasyl Ovsiyenko on March 7–8, 2004, Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group.
