The period between the round-number celebrations was also filled with fascinating events. During Captive Nations Week in July 1982, for example, representatives of the UPA and other North American Ukrainian nationalist associations were invited to Washington to celebrate, with thirty Congressmen, the fortieth anniversary of the UPA. According to Shliakh peremohy, the UPA flag flew over the capitol on 11 July 1982. The UPA flag was the red-and-black OUN-B flag, which had been introduced at the Second Great Congress of the Ukrainian Nationalists in Cracow in March–April 1941.[2029] Iosyf Slipyi, Patriarch of the Greek Catholic Church, who on 30 June 1941 attended the meeting at which Stets’ko had proclaimed the Ukrainian state, and who had lived in exile after he was released by the Soviet authorities in 1963, declared on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the UPA: “The Ukrainian Insurgent Army was born from the Christian awareness of the need to fight against Satan and his earthly servants.”[2030] A year later, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of Captive Nations and the alleged fortieth anniversary of the ABN, Stets’ko, head of the ABN and the OUN was invited to Congress. Vice President George Bush received the “last premier of a free Ukrainian state,” as Stets’ko still called himself, on 18 July 1983. A day later, President Reagan received Stets’ko at the White House.[2031]