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24 the Russian empire conceals its weaknesses, that is, the complete downfall of na tionalities’ policy, total economic bankruptcy rescued only by Western techno logy, financial support and credits, sales of grain, the creation of numerous fronts both within and outside the boundaries of the empire which is sur rounded by a hostile bloc of powerful countries in Asia, Europe and any other country which experiences the harsh reality of its invading forces. The German problem remains unchanged and is left open. German unity in freedom is a constantly pressing matter. The EFC supports the entry of Spain and Portugal into the Common Market and considers the political and military integration of Spain in NATO of great importance from a strategic, military and geopolitical point of view. The significance of Italy in the geopolitical complex of the Mediterranean region is of particular importance. The EFC considers the strengthening of anti communist forces there as necessary. The five year-long war in Afghanistan serves as proof of the total weakness of the Russian empire. The EFC calls for greater support than has been given up to now to Afghanistan — a barrier on the route to the rich oil countries and a most important strategic position in Central and Southern Asia. The EFC regrets the reluctance in the West to face the implication of Moscow’s modern methods of conducting what in reality is World War III. In view of this, NATO should not neglect to strengthen its conventional weap ons, thus raising the nuclear threshold and to support the liberation movements in the subjugated nations in the Russian empire, whose strength and effectiveness can only be a deterrent to any possible aggressive action by the USSR and its Warsaw Pact allies. While supporting a strong NATO nuclear shield the EFC demands a stronger political offensive by the alliance. A new dimension of collective security is needed, funded more equally by Japan, the United States and Western Europe. The EFC supports the US Government’s strategic defence initiative. Space based defence systems (a “high frontier strategy”) should be combined with a substantial build-up of conventional weapons, as well as by exploitation of the capabilities of non-conventional liberation warfare of the subjugated na tions (“low frontier strategy”) which would guarantee victory over Russian imperialism and communism and would eliminate the possibility of a nuclear holocaust. The EFC in cooperation with other organizations will work for the initia tion of a political-psychological freedom campaign against the USSR, based on such international covenants as the UN Resolution of 1960 on De-Coloniza tion, the UN Resolution of 1976 on Namibia calling upon all U N member- states to render assistance to all enslaved nations in their liberation struggle against foreign colonial oppressors and the US Captive Nations Resolution (US Public Law 86/90) of 1959 in which the United States shows its support of the liberation struggles of the subjugated nations for their national independence and human rights. The EFC supports Western aid to national and social liberation processes behind the Iron Curtain, such as those in Ukraine, the Baltic states, Byelorussia, Poland, Bulgaria, Rumania, Hungary, Slovakia, Czechia, Croatia and many 25 other nations oppressed by Russia and communism. These processes can be re garded as the Achilles’ heel of the Soviet Russian empire. The KGB and the International Department of the CPSU are carrying out extensive operations to influence Western political decisions by many means in cluding propaganda, disinformation, forgeries to back Moscow’s line plus covert political activity using agents-of-influence. In Western Europe alone about 14,000 Warsaw Pact officials are stationed in embassies, trade missions, com panies and press bureaus. All have a high ratio of intelligence officers trained for so-called ‘active measures’ against the West. To counteract Moscow’s political warfare it is necessary that a Freedom Academy be established in the West to research Soviet political strategy and establish democratic responses and ways to support the liberation struggle of the subjugated peoples for their national independence, sovereignty and democracy. Eric Brodin (USA) ‘1984’ for Over 25 Years in Cuba January 1984 marked the 25th anni versary of the coup which overthrew Cuba’s Fulgencio Batista, led by Fidel Castro and his “Bearded Ones”. They traversed the Sierra Madre mountains in a long-prepared take-over. Fidel Castro, ostensibly of peasant origin, managed to become a lawyer and in 1953 began his activist opposition to the Batista govern ment in Cuba until he was exiled to Mexico. It was from there that three years later, with his “guerrillas” skilled in sub versive warfare and adequately financed and equipped through his public relations efforts in the USA as a “democrat and reformer,” he was successful in ousting the Batista government. Castro’s success was as much in terms of public relations in the USA, as among the populace of the Cuban countryside. In Herbert Mathews of the NEW YORK TIMES he had his most fulsome advocate who was able to convince a generation of American liberals of Castro’s non-communist credentials until he, himself, decided to reveal his political views and called himself a “Marxist-Leninist”. In the ensuing quarter of a century, this identification has been left without any doubt. No vassal to the Kremlin (including the East European countries with Soviet troops within their borders) has more cravenly defended So viet Russian imperialism in Poland, in Af ghanistan, and elsewhere around the world than Fidel Castro. Even though a million people have fled the sugar-island in the ensuing years and Cuba has probably the highest suicide rate in the world (27.5 per 100,000), Castro still has enough people that he can compel around the world as “ideological mercenaries” in the name of liberation movements in Angola (27,000), Ethiopia (12,000), Nicaragua (3,000), Mozambique, Yemen, and more lately, Grenada. Despite the presence of the mighty USA a mere 90 miles away, Castro seems ensconced in his island-fortress, being supported with 26 $3.5 billion of Soviet Russian economic aid a year and another $1 billion in mili tary aid for Soviet-made armaments, ade quate first to harass, then to occupy a major part of the Caribbean islands and Central America with the 400,000 armed forces and 500,000 militia among his 10 million population. This quarter of a century also marks almost as much time of Cuba’s subversion of neighbors throughout Latin America. It started with “Che” Guevara in the Bolivian jungles and was followed by the attempted overthrow of the government of the Dominican Republic, saved only by the decisive actions of US Marines order ed out by LBJ in 1965; eighteen years later, the people of Grenada were saved a Communist dictatorship by the Marines called out by Ronald Reagan. What indo lence, fear, or indecisiveness has been re sponsible for allowing this festering sore in the American body politic to remain apparently unfettered in our own front yard? One newspaper account puts it this way: “In 25 years of self-restraint, mis- judgment, lethargy, and sometimes sheer bungling we have really never dealt with the threat.” To foster this insouciant tole rance toward Cuba, which still owes American businessmen $3.5 billion in un compensated losses due to nationalization, the American press has been in no small part responsible, from Herbert Mathews’ rosy description of Fidel as an agricultur al reformer to the détente seekers of to day.. A typical example of the naive views many have of Cuba is taken from Salt Lake City’s DESERT NEWS (December 22-23, 1983) in an unsigned editorial in which the following clichèed and roseate hopes of idealism were spewed forth as the chimera of wishful thinking on the eve of Christmas: “Under the circum stances the best bet for the US seems to be to seek better ties with Cuba and to be a friendly neighbor as far as possible with out, of course, compromising our stand on Communism. (How in the world is that to be accomplished?) Some Marxist na tions — given time and friendly treatment — eventually evolve away from hard line communism into something more reasonable. (Give us one example). If that were to happen to Cuba, the Russians might tire of spending all those billions on the island and seek greener pastures elsewhere.” (Abandon its most faithful proxy-fighter and an $8 billion debtor?) To the million people of all classes who have fled Cuba, to the people of Angola (where 25,000 Cuban occupation troops still remain), and those of, at least, another dozen nations around the world, such bilk is a consummate insult. “Cuba today resembles George Or well’s 1984. Communist propaganda has replaced the free press; the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) have provided neighborhood spying on a level unknown even in Nazi Germany; food has been rationed. Art is best de scribed as Castro realism; the cars re semble something out of a local junk yard; people queue up for hours to eat out; the air conditioning in the hotels is constantly on the fritz; Cuban cigars are too expensive for the Cubans; Cuban rum is exported; beer is available only on oc casion; the available books are basic Marxist-Leninist classics. The general atmosphere is as repressive as Moscow. Castro’s Communist government has ruined an island that once had the highest standard of living in Latin America.” (from THE NEW IMPERIALISM by Phillip Abbott Luce.) 27 Slava Stetsko, M.A. ABN ACTIVITIES Continuation of ABN Report at the 17th WACL Conference Tragic Anniversaries Are Remembered The Ukrainian community throughout the world, commemorated the 50th anni versary of the Great Famine in Ukraine, artificially created by the Soviet Russians in which 7 million people were starved to death, with demonstrations, publications and resolutions in the Western World and its Parliaments. During a mass demonstration comme morating the anniversary of the artificial famine in Ukraine, President Reagan in his greetings of May 20, 1983 to the Ukrainian Congress Committee of Ameri ca, stated: “The memory of the victims inspires our continuing commitment to a moral vision that expresses our humanitarian concern for all people”. President Reagan Proclaims Baltic Freedom Day At a White House ceremony, before some 200 prominent Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian leaders, President Ronald Rea gan signed the Baltic Freedom Day Pro clamation. In the name of the 26 US Senators and 225 Congressmen who co sponsored the legislation, the President reaffirmed his administration’s moral commitment to the nations subjugated by Soviet Russia. Congresses of National Groups Throughout the year different national groups held their congresses mostly in the United States and some in Europe. These congresses were held by Albanians, Hun garians, Estonians, Latvians, Poles, Slo vakians, Ukrainians and others. Activities of the ABN Central Committee Members The ABN Central Committee regularly held meetings and constantly tried to establish new branches throughout the Western world. During May, June and part of July 1984, ABN President, Mr. Yaroslav Stets ko and Mrs. Slava Stetsko visited the USA and Canada. During their stay in Wash ington, Mr. Stetsko met some members of Congress and various representatives of the U.S. Administration. In New York, Mr. Stetsko visited several UN Ambassadors and handed them a memorandum in which he drew the attention of the UN to the fact that Ukrainian and Byelorussian representatives are installed into the UN by Moscow and that they should be replaced by the true representatives of these respective nations, who are leading the movements striving for the liberation of their countries from Russian occupation. In connection with the Soviet Russian announcement of their decision not to participate in the Olympics, Mr. Stetsko met the President of the American Olym pic Committee and, after an exchange of opinions, gave him a Position Paper ex pressing the attitude of ABN on this matter. In the previous Olympic Games, the athletes of the subjugated nations were not allowed to compete under the flags of their nations, but had to win medals for their occupant — Soviet Russia. The Olympic Committee should select and accept athletes from among the emigres of the subjugated nations, since the athletes in their homelands have to obey the or ders from Moscow. In June and July 1984, Dr. Baymirza Hayit, a Turkestani scholar and member of the Central Committee of ABN, visited the USA where he participated at the AF ABN Conference in New York and held 28 a seminar for Turkestani speaking re presentatives. During the past year, ABN Executive Chairman, Mrs. Slava Stetsko visited Eng land, Italy, Spain, France and Belgium. Mrs. Stetsko participated at the National Convention of “Alianza Popular” in Barcelona, Spain and in the WACL Exe cutive Board Meeting in Ostend, Belgium. Radio Broadcasts Special attention was paid by the Central Committee of ABN to radio broadcasts at Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. Several position papers were elaborated and for warded to the various members of the US Administration, Senate and Congress. This will remain our constant matter of interest and concern, as such radio broad casts are a very important source of in formation for the subjugated nations. The ABN in the Free World The ABN has been active outside of the Iron Curtain among the citizenry, gov ernments and parliaments of the Free Western democracies, continuously point ing out that the only viable alternative to a nuclear holocaust lies in the West’s support of the liberation struggle of the subjugated nations for the dissolution of the Russian empire into national, inde pendent and sovereign states, each within its ethnographic borders, and for the de struction of the communist system from within by way of simultaneous national uprisings on the territories of the enslaved peoples. This alternative guarantees the ultimate victory of the forces of freedom and justice without a nuclear war and World War III! ABN also publishes bulletins, books and leaflets for various occasions. From Behind the Iron Curtain The Soviet Union is a totally militar ized empire. School children and univer sity level students receive military train ing. On all levels of industry Moscow has applied a military principle of labour organization. Even the collective farms are run according to a military principle, without which Moscow would hardly be able to keep the lid on the national disaf fection and unrest in the subjugated na tions. In spite of total militarization, con stant application of terror, oppression of all religions except for Russian orthodoxy, russification in all spheres of life of the subjugated nations, they continue their struggle for the restoration of national freedom and state sovereignty. The con stant trials in the “national republics” throughout the entire Russian empire are the clearest evidence of their struggle. Four Georgians Sentenced To Death The “Washington Post” of August 1984 writes about 4 young Georgians, Father Teymurza Chichladse, Kakha and Paata Ivereli — both doctors, and film actor Herman Kabakhidze, who were sentenced to death for hi-jacking an Aeroflot plane on November 18, 1983. The bodies of the four hi-jackers were not returned to their families for burial and nobody knows what happened to them. The parents of the four, — well-known Georgian aca demicians and cultural activists — have all lost their jobs and have been forbidden to talk on this matter. Harsh Sentences Against Ukrainian Nationalists In March 1984, Wasyl Pidhorodecky was arrested and acccused of “violating passport regulations”. Pidhorodecky, aged 58, and a former soldier of the Ukrain ian Insurgent Army, has already spent 32 years of his life in Soviet Russian prisons for serving his country. Oleksa Tykhy, one of the co-founders of the Ukrainian Public Group to Pro mote the Implementation of the Helsinki 29 Accords, died in late April or early May of this year in prison following stomach surgery. He was 57 years old. When last seen by visitors during late March, Tykhy, a large man, had withered to only 90 pounds and was severely malnourished. The immediate cause of Tykhy’s death was a delayed surgery for stomach ulcers. Yurij Shukhevych, now completely blind since 1983, due to suffering and torture at the hands of the KGB, is cur rently serving his sentence in Siberia. Due to his disability, he is in a hospital for the handicapped. Despite re peated offers by the KGB for amnesty, he continues to refuse to denounce his father’s activities and beliefs as the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. On August 1, 1982 a new law came into effect in the Ministry of Internal Affairs under which persons who became invalids of the 1st or 2nd group, while imprisoned, are eligible for release from further internal exile. Whether this law will be applied to Yurij who, since the age of 14 has spent most of his life in prison, is not yet known. This year, in his Proclamation on ‘Captive Nations Week’, President Reagan warmly expressed his sympathy and admiration of, as well as solidarity with the staunch and unyielding Yurij Shukhe vych, as well as other countless victims of Soviet Russian tyranny, with the follow ing words: “During Captive Nations Week we must take time to remember both the countless victims and the lonely heroes; both the targets of carpet bombing in Afghanistan, and individuals such as im prisoned Ukrainian patriot Yurij Shukhe vych. We must draw strength from the actions of the millions of freedom fight ers in communist-occupied countries, such as the signers of petitions for religious rights in Lithuania, or the members of Solidarity, whose public protests require personal risk and sacrifice that is almost incomprehensible to the average citizen in the Free World. It is in their struggle for freedom that we can find the true path to genuine and lasting peace”. “Deutsche Wochenzeitung” of June 1984 informs that Moscow fears the spreading of a Polish virus to neighbouring Ukraine and, as a result, harsh sentences have met many Ukrainians. Poland Since the announcement that elections to the Polish People’s Councils were to be held in June 1984 and the passage of a revised law regulating such elections, the underground press in Poland has been waging a vigorous campaign aimed at clarifying the rules for democratic elec tions and, above all, at working out ways and means of invalidating bogus elections that have most probably been decided in advance by the authorities. The proclamation that the deferred elec tions were to take place in June caused a great deal of activity on the part of the underground press, from the smallest leaf lets circulated in factories to the major regular publications. In his clandestine interview, Z. Bujak, the leader of the Polish underground, confirms also ABN’s concept of libera tion by opposing any dialogue with the occupational regime. He calls for a “long march” of resistance to the colonial re gime, building clandestine organizations in schools, factories, scientific, academic and cultural institutions. Bujak believes that any type of legal forms of struggle are now unfeasible. He stated in the in terview that “there exists a very strong resistance movement..., a very strong movement of rejection, a movement to boycott all institutions of the regime, and I regard this element as very significantly changing the classic system of Communist rule”. Download Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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