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36 Warriors”. Unfortunately, through the mafia of left-journalism much of this aspect today has not been altered in the mass media. Even though we once again have a conservative government, these left jour nalists continue to pursue their confusion. The declared and promised “Turning Point” in many political areas has not occurred yet. Apart from the economic policy, the government still owes us the “Turning Point”. Therefore, in my opin ion, it is of the utmost urgency that, with the aid of and in close cooperation with political groups like the ABN and other ideologically related organizations, we finally also bring about a political, spirit ual and moral turning point in Germany and in the still Free West. Captivity and the lack of the right to self-determination of the subjugated nations and of our brothers and sisters in Central Germany must again be publicly denounced and named as such. False consideration is out of place! We must again feel bound to our iden tity and to our national duty and support every endeavour which brings us closer to our goal. In my opinion, the ABN can play an important role here. The ABN could and must actively take over the co ordination of all these forces and con tribute to the West’s reconsideration. In America Reagan’s administration succeed ed in conveying a new feeling of self-re spect and national patriotism to the Americans. All national thinking people that are represented in the ABN should, together with their German friends, be politically active everywhere and not only in their occasional Sunday speeches. We must promote and render support to all endeavours in the eastern countries which serve to bring about freedom, self-deter mination and human rights in these countries also. Therefore, it is necessary to scrutinize whether the concession of credits and other economic agreements and contracts do not contribute to the stabilization of the system. All political and economic de cisions should be made from only this point of view. I believe that the ABN could inherit a great and important assignment and that it should certainly become more active in this area. All conservative and nationally conscious German citizens must not only feel bound to this assignment but also actively support it. In the final analysis, this is a matter of concern not only regarding the freedom of all subjugated nations but also the preserva tion and defense of our freedom. I deeply regret that my dear friend and co-fighter, Julius Braes, died shortly be fore his 75th birthday and could not live to see the day for which he actively fought and worked for during his life: the freedom of his Latvian motherland from the Soviet Russian yoke. All of us, Germans and our foreign friends in ABN should continue to work in the same spirit and mind at this im portant and necessary task. Croatia Denounces The Croatian Liberation Movement de nounces to the public opinion of the free world the organized and systematic Yu goslav state terrorism carried on in West ern Europe, by the Yugoslav Secret Police headed by Interior Minister, Stane Do- lanc. In the past 20 years over 100 Croatian political exiles have been murdered by Yugoslav agents in the Federal German Republic, Austria, France, Switzerland and Sweden. Many of these political murders have been well documented. The police and courts of the countries where the murders took place have extensive and conclusive proof that the killings were or 37 ganized by Yugoslav state officials or their agents. The interior ministries of several West European countries have taken police measures aimed at stopping further po litical murders of Croats and have publi cized their well founded conviction of Yugoslav government responsibility and involvement, but Yugoslav state terrorism in Western Europe has not been deterred by these measures. On the other hand, the inability or seeming unwillingness of West European governments to take effective political and economic steps which would stop Yu goslav terrorism, has convinced the hun dreds of thousands Croats living and working in Western Europe, that Western governments are powerless to stop Yugo slav inspired political assassinations. It is our view that the inadequate re sponse of Western governments to Yugo slav terror activities has emboldened the Yugoslavs to continue their murderous activities in Western Europe. Therefore, as representatives of Croats in the free world, we appeal, indeed in sist, that West European governments take effective political and economic counter measures against Yugoslavia and its com munist regime which will convince Bel grade to respect the national and territo rial sovereignty of the free and democratic countries of Western Europe. Delegation of Croatia WACL Conference, San Diego, USA The Future of Hong Kong (From a letter received from Dr. KU Cheng-kang, Hon. Chairman, WACL) The WACL stand regarding Hong Kong, as spelled out in the Joint Commu nique of the 17th WACL Conference in San Diego, is that any settlement of the status of that British colony “should re spect the wishes of the people there in the pursuit of their freedom and democracy”. On Sept. 26, however, British and Red Chinese negotiators ended two years of talks and initiated a draft agreement that will transfer the land and people in ques tion to communist control in less than 13 years — by July 1, 1997. The wishes and rights of the Hong Kong people, now 5.5 million in number, are thus being ignored and jeopardized. In particular, there is no assurance for the life and property of the 4 million anti-communists who have over the years fled the Chinese mainland and settled in Hong Kong. The Chinese communists speak of “one country, two systems” after Hong Kong is made a “special administrative region” under Peking. They also speak of local autonomy for at least another 50 years after 1997 but, these are baits used by the regime to deceive outsiders. No com munist has ever demonstrated sense of obligation to commitments; no accord in communist hands has escaped violation. We of WACL are strongly for man’s freedom, and the Republic of China is dedicated to the task of Chinese national reunification in freedom and democracy. I therefore earnestly hope that all those of the world who love freedom and re spect democracy and justice will see to it that: — The status quo of Hong Kong be maintained until after China’s national reunification in freedom and democracy, and strong international assurances be secured for the freedom, democracy, and prosperity of the people there. 38 International Frankfurt Book Fair 1984 “Orwell 2000” was the theme of this year’s International Book Fair held Oc tober 3-8 in Frankfurt, W. Germany. This theme suggested that the horrific visions which Orwell predicted for the fictitious year 1984 are heading towards becoming a reality. This reality, although as yet not fully realised, is, however, a great threat to us, especially if we take a look at world literature today where in many ways Orwell’s predictions have, actually, come true. Our aim within the context of the main theme of the Book Fair, was to show to the world public that the above mentioned horrific visions — informational coloni alism, a fully controlled society ad ministered by a totalitarian power, moral decline, conflict in creativity and total destruction — in Ukraine and other sub jugated nations, in their cultures and literature — have, in fact, been a reality long before the world ever heard of Or well. At this year’s International Book Fair, 92 nationalities and 6200 publishers participated. Among them Ukrainian publishers of the Ukrainian Liberation Front — Munich, London, New York, Toronto, Brussels — had their own stand and exhibited books in the Ukrainian, English, French and German languages. One section of the stand, entitled “The Forbidden Language”, acted like a magnet in attracting the public to the stand. Here plaques were hung with quotes from the Valuevsk and Ems Decrees — where the use of the Ukrainian language in Ukraine was officially forbidden by the Russian authorities. The public was also informed about the destruction of Ukrainian cultural activists under present-day Soviet Russian occupation. On a separate wall, under the heading “Literature Behind Bars”, large photo graphs of Ukrainian writers at present serving sentences in concentration camps or internal exile in the USSR, together with appropriate notices, attracted a vast international public and aroused great interest to these figures, their works and their plight. A large icon and literature about the late Ukrainian Patriarch Josyf Slipyj which filled a third wall, brought to light another aspect of Soviet Russian policy, namely, the persecution and denial of all religious beliefs in the USSR. In contrast, the USSR stand, while displaying a large selection of books and on the surface attempting to show that they leave room for so-called “sovereign republics”, only exhibited a mere handful of books in the respective languages of these republics, thus showing the stifling by the Russian language of everything non-Russian. There were also stands which exhibited Polish publications from Paris and Lon don. “SOLIDARNOSC” had its own stand, and so did Croatia. The Ukrainian stand which was set up and run by young Ukrainians from Munich and London, as well as a separate stand from Ukrainian Academic Institu tions, made its mark not only on the world public and the Book Fair itself, but also on the Russian publishers and Russian public who could do nothing but clench their teeth in anger everytime they passed our exhibits. It brought home the fact that, in spite of mass russianisation national languages, literature, culture and history do and will in future generations continue to exist in the presently subju gated nations, and voice to the whole world the real horrific visions of Soviet Russian totalitarian rule. I. K. 39 USSR Admits it Helped Chinese CP Washington: The Soviet Union has openly admitted that it helped the Chinese Communist party (CCP) 40 years ago to seize power from the government of the Republic of China. An article in the Soviet Communist Party doctrinal journal, Partijnaja Zhizn (Party Life), admits Soviet theoretical and material assistance to CCP helped it de velop a “revolutionary movement” at an early stage and overthrow the Republic of China government at the end of the Sino- Japanese War. A paragraph of the article, written by O. Drugov, says: “In the period 1945-49, the center of the (Red) Chinese revolutionary move ment shifted to the northeastern part of China, to Manchuria where active pre parations were begun with the USSR’s assistance for the final stage of the strug gle for the country’s liberation from co lonial and social oppression. The People’s Liberation Army was ensured a reliable rear and was given the opportunity to re organize itself and improve its supplies and equipment using the Japanese weap ons and equipment captured by Soviet troops.” The article says the Soviet railwaymen in Manchuria restored the destroyed com munications to enable the People’s Libera tion Army to concentrate and regroup for attacks to expell the Chinese government forces out of Manchuria, thus creating fa vorable conditions for the general offen sive toward the south. Moscow’s assistance to CCP as admit ted in the article came at a time when the Soviet Union and the Republic of China still maintained diplomatic relations. Commenting on the article, the ad vanced International Studies Institute which is in association with the Univer sity of Miami says that “the unabashed admission underscores the flagrant dupli city which the USSR has practiced since the days of Lenin involving, on the one hand, lip service to the Marxist tenet that a revolution in any country must occur spontaneously as a result of the indig enous ripening of necessary precondition of their own accord, and on the other hand, unceasing efforts to foment revolu tion wherever and whenever there is pro mise of success, and even to force revolu tions in areas deemed of special strategic importance for the USSR”. The article, entitled “Proletarian Inter nationalism: Traditions and Contempora neity,” appears in the June 13 issue of the publication. News Letter, August 31, 1984 Vol. XXXIX, No. 8. Pride of Ukraine Washington, Sept. 17 (Special) — The Washington Post today carried the fol lowing article by Joseph McClean: “Rise up,” sang the chorus, “and break your heavy chains and water with the tyrant’s blood the freedom you have gained”. It was music for marching to gether; music to bring an audience to its feet. It was sung in Ukrainian, a lan guage whose right to exist has been denied, by people resisting a century-old effort to erase their national identity. The occasion was both festive and cere monial yesterday afternoon in the Ken nedy Center Concert Hall. Before the concert and during the intermission, the atmosphere was almost like that of a family reunion involving a very large 40 family: an estimated 10,000 Americans and Canadians of Ukrainian descent who had come to Washington to shake their collective fist at the Soviet Union. Many in the audience were dressed in the national costume, with richly em broidered, large sleeved blouses, and many conversations were being held in a lan guage that, to foreign ears, might sound like Russian. It emphatically was not. “There never was a Ukrainian language,” wrote czarist Minister of Education in 1863, “there is not now and never can be”. It was a sentiment heartily echoed by Stalin, successor to the Czars, who killed more than 10°/o of Ukraine’s popu lation with an artificially indued famine, but the visitors to Washington were speaking in that language. They were singing, in that “non-existent” language, the unofficial anthem of a nation the size of France that cannot have an official anthem: And in that great family, The family of the free, With softly spoken kindly word Remember also me. The author was remembered, with a concert dedicated to his memory. He was Taras Shevchenko, exiled from Ukraine in the mid 19th century because of his revolutionary poetry and honored now with a statue in Washington at 22nd and P Street NW. Before yesterday’s concert, which was dedicated largely to music with texts of Shevchenko, the Ukrainian visi tors marched from that corner to the corner of 16th and K, the closest they were allowed to come to the Soviet Em bassy. Nevertheless, this was not primarily a political demonstration it was a cultural statement that “we exist; we are different; we have a right to exist and to be dif ferent”. For that purpose, a concert in the Kennedy Center may be more useful than a march on the Soviet Embassy. Most of the music on the program would have been unfamiliar to American audiences. It was composed by men with names like Verbytsky, Stetsenko, Lysenko and Davydovsky, though two numbers were included by Giuseppe Verdi, whose music helped 19th century Italy to find its national identity. The Ukrainian music was sung by the excellent Dumka chorus with three outstanding soloists. Bass Ihor Zamiaty soloed with the chorus in “The Testament”, by Verbytsky with words by Shevchenko, which is the unof ficial Ukrainian anthem. Soprano Renata Babak, a defector from the Bolshoi Opera and an amazing voice, sang in two folk favored songs, “The Poplar” and “The Nightingale”, as well as "O Fatal Scritto” from Verdi’s “Na- bucco”. Andrij Dobriansky of the Metropolitan Opera soloed with the chorus in two brief cantatas deeply tinged with national sentiment and in excerpts from Konstan- tyn Dankevych’s opera of national libera tion “Bohdan Khmelnytsky”. The musical highpoint of the program was a duet by Babak and Dobriansky in “Ciel, Mio Padre”, from “Aida”. The program was an artful blend of musical and political Statements, and it gave a tantalizing sample from what seems to be rich tradi tion of solo, choral and operatic music. “There is no question that Western imperialism existed. Similarly, it seems to me, that there is little question that it no longer exists. All the Western countries have given up their colonial possessions. The Soviet Union is the only remaining empire in the world — a country that has not only retained all the imperial conquests of the czarist regime, hut has added to them.” Richard Pipes, Baird Professor of History at Harvard. 1981-82, director of the East European and Soviet Affairs section of the National Security Council of the United States. 41 Persecution of Georgian dissidents 1. Merab KOSTAV (age 45) member of Georgian Human Rights movement and of the Georgian Helsinki Monitoring Group. Published a letter in defense of the deported Meskhetians (in the sami zdat: Georgian Herald, 1976). Sentenced on 19 May 1978: 3 years strict regime (Perm, camp 32) and 2 years exile. Short ly before his term expired, charges were trumped up against him: re-sentenced by Taishet Court (December 1981) to 5 years imprisonment. 2. Valentina PAILODZE (age 55) mother of 3 children. Member of the Church choir, the Georgian Helsinki Monitoring Group, and of Defence of the Freedom to Worship. Lodged protests against the loot ing of valuable relics from the Georgian Patriarchate by KGB agents. Sentenced in 1974: IV 2 years in strict regime camp. Re-arrested on 6 Nov. 1977; sentenced in Tbilisi on 6 October 1978 to 1 year imprisonment and 2 years exile (Art. 206- 1 and 233 of the Georgian Criminal Code). Re-arrested in Tbilisi on trumped-up charges and sentenced on 20 May 1983 to: 8 years strict regime and 5 years exile. 3. Dr. Nikoloz SAMKHARADZE (age 69) graduate in History and in Medicine. Teacher of History and headmaster. In August 1958, at a Conference of Georgian Teachers of History in Tbilisi made a powerful attack against the distortion of Georgian history and its attempted aboli tion in Georgian schools. Arrested in Oct. 1958, declared irresponsible, sent in Janu ary 1959 to a Psychiatric hospital for 9 months. Could not get employment for 10 years after his release. In 1969: renounced Soviet citizenship and asked to be allowed to emigrate with his family, Dr. Nikoloz Samkharadze as local doctor. When on 20 Sept. 1975, Zviad Gamsakhurdia reported a KGB attack with a poisonous gas on him and his family, Dr. Nikoloz Samkharadze being with him in the car at that time testified on the poisonous effects of the gas: he was subsequently warned by the KGB and kept under surveillance by them. His home was searched in April 1978 and February 1980; after another search on 23 October 1980 anti-Soviet literature was found, he was arrested. He was ruled irresponsible in summer 1981 and intern- . ed in the Dnepropetrovsk Special Psy chiatric Hospital, in Orlov, where he has been ever since. He is in poor health, and a petition has been signed by Geor gians in Tbilisi, asking for his release on those grounds. 4. Leaders of the “ORGANISATION FOR GEORGIAN NATIONAL LIBE RATION” a) Zakariah LASHKARASHVILI (age 30) a taxi-driver. Its founder in April 1979 and organiser. Wrote in early 1981 a samizdat book: “Truth, struggle and free dom” for the independence of Georgia. In early 1983 he printed leaflets, with a swastyka: “USSR-Fascism-Colonialism- Russification”, and also the text of an "oath of allegiance” to the Organisation. On 26 July 1983 he gathered a meeting in Tbilisi, where he distributed the leaflets and collected 30 signatures for the oath, together with the flag and coat of arms of a future independent Georgia. b) Tariel GVINIASHVILI (age 24): worker. His deputy; together they printed leaflets against holding celebrations of the Bicentenary of the Treaty of Georgievsk Download Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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