B 20004 D BULLETIN OF THE ANTIBOLSHEVIK BLOC OF NATIONS Coexistence with the Slave-owners in the Russian Communist Empire? The Prisoners Bronze Memorial by Ossip Zadkine Verlagspostamt: München 8 January - February 1966 Vol. XVII - No. CONTENTS: For The Freedom Of Religion 4 Anathole Bedriy Vasyl Symonenko (1935— 1963) — Troubadour Of Ukraine’s F re e d o m .............................................................. 6 Nationalism Threatens R u ssia .......................................... 9 US Senate On Shelepin’s C rim e s ...........................................11 Niko Nakasbidse Soviet Press Attacks A B N ........................................................ 18 Wolfgang Strauss Is The Kremlin Afraid Of The Emigrants? .... 21 P. Polyakov Nobel Prize For The Glorification Of Communism . 24 Yevgen Yevtushenko — A Political Phenomenon? . 26 D. Donzow Standard-Bearers Of The Chosen People .... 28 Anti-Communist Mediterranean C entre....................................31 A. Bedriy Russian Imperialism In The Ideas And Policies Of Lenin 33 From Letters To A B N ............................................................... 37 News And V i e w s ......................................................................43 From Behind The Iron Curtain ................................................. 45 Publisher: Press Bureau of the Antibolshevik Bloc of Annual subscription DM 12.— in Germany, 6 Dollars Nations (A.B.N.) in U.S.A., and the equivalent of 6 Dollars in all other countries. Remittances to: Post office Transfer account: Munich 8, Zeppelinstr. 67 Munich 58 000 or Deutsche Bank, Munich, Filiale De­ positenkasse, Neuhauser Str. 6, Account No. 307430 Editorial Staff: Board of Editors. (A .B .N .). Editor-in-Chief: Mrs. Slava Stetsko, M.A. Articles signed with name or pseudonym do not Herausgeber: Presse-Büro des Antibolschewistischen necessarily reflect the Editor's opinion, but that of Blocks der Nationen (ABN), München 8, Zeppelin­ the author. 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The Russian people needs a cruel, mystical “Little Father”, whether it be a “white” tsar, Lenin (whose embalmed body was exhibited after his death), the tyrant Stalin, or the gossip Khrushchov. An empire such as the Russian empire can only be sustained further by a totalitarian regime, by dictatorship. A complete development leading to genuine democracy would be identical with the dissolution of this empire. For this reason the Russian empire can never become democratic. The so-called collective leadership — as a principle of government — can only exist to a very limited degree and can never be extended to the entire life of state and people; on the contrary, the continual limitation of the collective leadership tends towards one-man rule. This phenomenon also inevitably gives rise to one-party rule. When Khrushchov was ousted, the main reason given for his overthrow was the intensification of the conflict with China and the economic crisis. But so far as these two reasons are concerned, there have been no changes since Khrushchov was ousted. The main cause of the change in the top leadership of the Russian empire was deliberately overlooked: none of the tyrants was or is in the position to rid the empire of its Achilles’ heel — the national liberation struggle of the captive nations. The monstrous Communist system which has been forced on the captive nations is still the deciding factor in the latent crisis. The Party needed a scapegoat — and his name was Khrushchov. When in Göteborg (Sweden) Khrushchov was alarmed by the spirit of the great Hetman and liberation leader of Ukraine, Mazepa, conjured up by the wreath-laying demonstration carried out by the ABN delegation under the leadership of the former Ukrainian Prime Minister, Yaroslav Stetsko, at the grave of King Charles XII, Mazepa’s great ally, the Russian leader knew instinctively whence the biggest danger to the empire threatened. The old spirit of European knighthood, without fear or fault, whose last great representatives the Swedish King and the Ukrainian Hetman were, has found its renewal in the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), in the October revolutionaries of Poland and Hungary, in the German “17th June” freedom-fighters, and in ABN’s champion through­ out the freedom-loving world. Shelepin, typical representative of the criminal Russian adversary, made himself prominent among the Russian ruling class by organizing and carrying out the murder of the leader of the Ukrainians in their freedom struggle, Stephan Bandera. In this way and as a ruthless oppressor of every aspiration toward national freedom, he has shown the Russian rulers that he is worthy to be a candidate for the highest position in the top leadership. He is also a true repre­ sentative of the new messianic generation which is to give the Russian aggressors 1 new energy. The leader of the new imperialistic class, which is to relieve the old, is pressing for power. The last representative of the old band of criminals, Mikoyan, has disappeared. New men with a new fanaticism and a new messianism are pushing their way forward. And for the West the danger is becoming greater. The policy of co­ existence will soon prove itself even more unequivocally to be false. The head­ strong craving for freedom of the captive nations will provoke the leading class to use new methods to try and stamp it out by violence. Since 1959 the system of persecution has been extended in a new manner — with thé decisive assistance of Shelepin. Since 1959 the Church and religion have also been seized in this new wave of persecution. The main attack began in that year. The captive nations, and especially Ukraine, are experiencing an apocalypse. The present time can be compared with the dark hours of Gethsemane. This is all the worse, since the policy of coexistence has numbed the West’s reactions. In 1930 the Primate of the Church of England in London organized a mass Christian demonstration against the persecution of Christians in the USSR. In 1962 the Primate of the same Church made an official visit to Moscow and dined with the persecutors of the Christians. Indeed, even the Vatican has dealings with Moscow. Francois Mauriac once correctly said: “Christ is in his death throes in the USSR. We may not sleep at this time.” The shadows of Shelepin, the murderer of Stephan Bandera, fall across the whole empire. The KGB, whose spokesman he is, is reaching out for absolute power in the empire. The Chekisti (Bolshevist political police) are being glorified. KGB Chief Semishchasny has written in Pravda and the head of the KGB in Ukraine, General Nikitchenko, in Radyanska Pravda, that the Chekisti already control the whole of Soviet life, and that they will and should have even more power in the future. Shelepin has not been demoted; Podgorny has lost the battle for the most im­ portant post and has been pushed aside into the representative post of President. Shelepin has become Brezhnev’s deputy and has taken over the post of Second Secretary for Cadre and Organizational Questions, with the task of preparing for the next Party Congress. Stalin had the same functions under Lenin, Malenkov under Stalin, Khrush­ chov, Kozlov (pretender to the supreme power who died prematurely), and Brezh­ nev all had the same functions before they came to power. It may be assumed that Malinovsky will be replaced by a closer colleague of Shelepin’s. The Free World can expect nothing good of Shelepin. Even less than before would it be possible to attain German reunification in freedom without the simultaneous and coordinated national liberation revolutions of all the captive nations and the dissolution of the Russian empire. Even more freedom-thirsty Germans from Russia’s westmost colony, the so-called DDR, will bleed to death at the Berlin Wall. It is regrettable that these martyr deaths pass by the eyes of the youth of West Germany without leaving a trace, without triggering off mass protest demonstrations. Do the West Germans want the Americans to do their fighting for them? Even if on 12th December 1965 foreign newspapers report a new student 2 demonstration in Pushkin Square in Moscow, it would be wrong to speak of demonstrations by Russian young people. As every historically trained person knows, it was also difficult in the past for the young people of the captive nations to study in the capitals of their native lands, so they went to the Russian universities, where they caused ferment. The anti-tsarist revolution was started by the Ukrainian Volynian Regiment in St. Petersburg, and Petlyura, later President of Ukraine, was able to publish his journal Ukrainskaya Zhyzn only outside Ukraine, in Moscow, and only in Russian. The situation today is a similar one: it is mainly non-Russian young people who are demonstrating in Moscow. The Internal Security Sub-Committee of the United States Senate has publish­ ed a documentation entitled Murder International, Inc. and subtitled Murder and Kidnapping as an Instrument of Soviet Policy. In this publication Shelepin is de­ nounced as the criminal organizer of murders and kidnappings on the evidence established by the German Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe in the trial of Stashynsky, the murderer of the Ukrainian freedom leader, Stephan Bandera, and on the evidence of other documents of the American Senate.