GW ISSN 001 — 0545 Y 23027 F NO. 1; VOl. XI.IV CORRESPONDENCE Freedom for Nations! Freedom for Individuals! IN THIS ISSUE: Yarema Kelebay Nation-building in the Newly Independent States Martti Valkonen The Ceded Finnish Territories Ali Granmayeh Iran and Ukraine: The View from Tehran Ihor Dlaboha No Security Treaty, START Stops Volodymyr Butkevych Crimea and the truth about Khrushchev's 'Gift' DOCUMENTS AN» REPÔR1 New Latvian President Says Russian Troops Must Go Home! Former Soviet Satellites Discuss Defense Report from the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists Soviets had planned Nuclear Attack on Western Europe Patriarch Mstyslav I Dies at Age 95 CONTENTS Slava Stetsko, ABN: Half a Century of Struggle......................................................................... 2 Yarema Gregory Kelebay, Nation-building in the Newly Independent States .... 7 Martti Valkonen, The Ceded Finnish T erritories......................................................................... 14 Ukraine, Poland: 'Strategic Partners' - Refuse Russian D ictatorship.........................................16 Ali Granmayeh, Iran and Ukraine: The View from T ehran.........................................................18 O. Chabarivskyi, Perspectives of Ukrainian Foreign Policy.........................................................21 Orthodox of the Moscow Patriarchate block Ukrainian Greek Catholic Mass .... 24 New Latvian President Says Russian Troops Must Go H o m e ! .................................................25 Varla Paegle and Marlins Zvaners, Latvian Americans Angered by Campaign against Latvia . 26 lhor Dlaboha, No Security Treaty, START Stops.........................................................................29 Ukraine seeks to help Peace Process in Croatia and S l o v e n i a .................................................30 Estonia strengthens relations while Lithuania looks to e x p a n d .................................................31 Former Soviets Satellites Discuss D e fe n s e .....................................................................................32 Shevamadze: Georgia's Bloody D i c t a t o r .....................................................................................33 Congress of Ukrainian N a tio n a lis ts .............................................................................................34 Volodymyr Butkevych, Crimea and the truth about Khrushchev's G ift.........................................37 ABN CORRESPONDENCE Publisher and Owner (Verleger und Inhaber): Articles signed with name or pseudonym do not American Friends of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc necessarily reflect the Editor's opinion, but that of Nations (AF ABN), 136 Second Avenue, of the author. Manuscripts sent in unrequested New York, N.Y. 10003, U.S.A. cannot be returned in case of non-publication unless postage is enclosed. Zweigstelle Deutschland: A. Dankiw, Zeppelinstr. 67, 8000 München 80. It is not our practice to pay for contributed materials. Reproduction permitted only with Editorial Staff: Board of Editors indication of source (ABN Corr.). Editor-in-Chief: Mrs Slava Stetsko, M.A. Zeppelinstr. 67 Annual subscription: 27 US dollars, and the 8000 München 80, Germany equivalent in all other countries. Remittances to Deutsche Bank, Munich, Neuhauser Str. 6, Tel: 48 25 32 Fax: 48 65 19 account no. 3021003, Anna Dankiw. A Word fron the Editor___ ABN Correspondence is in its 44th year of publication. Over the years, our publication has informed members about the perils of Bolshevik imperialism, about violations of human rights behind the “Iron Curtain”, about the nationalist movements within the nations imprisoned in the Soviet bloc. ABN Correspondence challenged status quo thought about Soviet politics - the convenient thinking that somehow persistently wanted to accept the Kremlin’s justifications that the captive nations had always wanted to exist as Soviet republics. Fortunately, with the collapse of the Soviet Russian empire, many Western leaders, politicians, and scholars have had to readjust their thinking. When the captive nations seized the opportunity to break free from the empire, it was evidence enough that the desire, the struggle and the goal of national independence was never foresaken throughout the “dark” decades of Soviet Russian rule. We have witnessed monumental changes in our world over the past two years. For our ABN members, this time has been joyous. The declaration of independence in one’s homeland is the realisation of a life-long dream. For more than four decades, our members have worked in the diaspora to facilitate the national movements in their homelands. This has meant lobbying governments, disseminating information which was unpublishable in the Soviet bloc, letter-writing campaigns, demonstrations, and writing articles to publications such as our ABN Correspondence. Our editorial board is very grateful to the many who provided articles and documents during those years when part of the world turned a blind eye to the injustices of the Soviet Russian regime. When ABN reassessed its new role at the ABN Congress last November, this spurred a name change to the Assembly of the Bloc of Nations in Europe and in Asia. The change reflects a readjustment of terminology more in keeping with the events of the past two years. The name change, however, does not mean a change in objectives and goals. ABN strives to unite national independence movements, which are struggling against the return of imperialist rule. Events in the past few months indicate the need for further cooperation among nation-states. One only needs to recall: the dangerous movement vying for the return of communist rule in Russia and the unstable situation in the Russian government; the campaign against those countries with new citizenship laws which do not give priveleged rights to members of the Russian occupying armies; and Russia’s expansionist policies towards the Crimea. Previously, one could only read information in the press that was filtered through Moscow’s “centre”. Now, that the rest of the world is learning about other nation-states other than Russia, there is a deluge of available information, (albeit the Western media still tends to focus most of its attention on Moscow). How does this development affect our publication? The editorial board has decided that the focus of our publication should be more on ABN news, articles from our readers as well as documents or articles which present information that may be overlooked by other media.We have changed to a smaller format and to fewer editions per year. We ask our readers to contribute viewpoints, articles and documents, so that we could better reflect the activities and views of our readers and members. I would like to take this opportunity to express our thanks to our readership for the continued support. 1 Slava Stetsko ABN: Half a Century of Struggle Keynote Address ABN Congress, November 1992 Toronto, Canada Our ABN Congress is taking place in a completely changed world. Our organisation’s endeavours and the struggle of our respective nations’ has been richly rewarded with the fall of the Soviet Russian empire and the communist system. Many leaders of our organisation dedicated their entire lives to ensure that their nations may live on. Let us pay tribute to the memory of the great leaders of our organisation and our nations: Rostyslav Voloshyn (President of the First Conference of the Subjugated Nations of Europe and Asia in 1943, Prime Minister of a Free Ukrainian Government Yaroslav Stetsko (founding President of ABN and its exceptional leader until his death in 1986), great leaders such as Ferdinand Durchansky and Tibor Pohomy of Slovakia, Minister Dimiter State and Dr. Dimiter Waltcheff of Bulgaria, Minister Alfred Berzins of Latvia, General Hinko Alabanda of Croatia, General Farkash de Kisbamak of Hungary, Prince Niko Nakashidze of Georgia, Archbishop Vasili Tomashek of Belarus, Dr. Basil Mailat of Romania and many others. We are saddened that they are no longer with us to witness the rebirth of our respective nations. May their memory live for ever. The Soviet-backed Yugoslav empire has also disintegrated, although Serbian aggression against Croats and Muslims still continues today. Czecho-Slovakia is being transformed peacefully into two separate states of Czechia and Slovakia. The scope of the changes is truly unprecedented. However, as it was to be expected, the newly-established states are still struggling with the grim legacy of the occupying regimes. Even today, Russia has not abandoned its penchant for imperialism. Russian troops are still stationed in the Baltic states and Poland. The so-called Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) still hinders its member-states from asserting fully their independence and proceed unhindered with the necessary political and socio-economic reforms. With some exceptions, the Bolshevik nomenclatura still holds key positions in government structures and the outlawed communist parties have reemerged under the guise of so-called socialist parties. They use their position of power to appropriate national wealth for their private benefit before real reforms and privatization are introduced and take hold. To this day, the violations of national and human rights by the Soviet regime have not been duly exposed and the guilty brought to justice. Moscow’s “divide and conquer” nationalities policy and the' mass deportation of entire populations have resulted in inter-ethnic strife in Moldova, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.