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GW ISSN 0001 — 0545 Y 23027 F FREEDOM FOR NATIONS ! CORRESPONDENCE FREEDOM FOR INDIVIDUALS! JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1990 Vol XLI Subjugated Nations Steadily moving on the Road CONTENTS: to Independence ......................................................................... 1 Hundreds of Thousands join Human Chain Across Ukraine ........................................................................ 3 “Rukh” Council of Nations holds Founding Conference, Kyiv, February 11 .................................................................... 11 Saulius Peceliunas The Lithuanian Democratic Party ......................................... 12 Evdokim Evdokimov No Way to turn the Clock Back in Bulgaria ...................... 14 Dr. Max Banush “Romania... Yesterday... Today... Tomorrow!” ................. 17 General Robert Close East-West Relations and Global Strategy ........................... 20 Our Helps is Needed to Maintain the Courage to Fight .. 29 No Force can stop the Boiling Surge for Freedom and Democracy ......................................................................... 31 Message to the 1990 World Freedom Day Rally .............. 33 Hungarian Free Democrats .................................................... 36 What does the Hungarian Democratic Forum want? ....... 39 Ukrainian Orthodox hold Sobor in Lviv .............................. 40 Statement of the Lviv Committee ......................................... 42 Ukrainian Independence Day Commemorated in Congress ................................................................................ 43 US Press Comments on Lithuanian Pluralism .................. 45 Social Democratic Party Convenes in Vilnius ................... 46 Once Docile Colony Rises up .................................................. 47 In Memoriam ............................................................................. 49 Freedom for Nations! 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Manuscripts sent in un Druck: Druckgenossenschaft “Cicero" requested cannot be returned in case of non e.G.. Zeppelinstraße 67, 8000 München 80. publication unless postage is enclosed. SUBJUGATED NATIONS STEADILY MOVING ON THE ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE It was surely not Mikhail Gorbachev’s intention to strip the Communist Party of its leading force in the empire or its monopoly of power but it came to this on his initiative and the Central Committee agreed to do this. Authoritarian features of the regime are losing their grip on society, which is no longer paralysed by fear as in Stalin’s time or his successors’. The Soviet empire is under pressure from centrifugal forces released by glasnost. The Communist regime in Poland, Hungary, Czecho slovakia and elsewhere in satellite states had survived only because of the assumption that any attempt to overthrow them would result in military intervention by Moscow. When this assumption was proved to be wrong then those regimes collapsed. Some journalists are afraid that it is quite different in the Soviet Union because in Russia “communism was not imposed by foreigners” and “drew its strength from Russian nationalism rather than opposing it”. This is true about Russia but the Soviet Union is not Russia. The Soviet Union is an empire encompassing a score of forcibly encorporated non-Russian nations; the Baltic countries (after the Molotov-Ribben- trop Pact), Ukraine, Byelorussia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkestan and others — countries which lost their restored independence after the First World War. Communism was forcibly imposed together with Russian domination. These countries are now steadily and decisively moving on the road to independence from the Moscow centre. Hundreds of thousands of people in the different republics, from the Baltic Sea, through Ukraine and Caucasus, to Uzbekistan and Tadzhikistan, are raising ever bolder demands for the official status of their national languages, for freedom of religion, for the introduction of a multi-party system and market economies, for the creation of their own army in their republic, for free trade unions etc. If Moscow blames the national republics for clashes between some of them as in the case of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, then the question has to be asked who instigated it. It was the Russian policy of “divide et impera”, divide and rule, which has caused the fighting between some nations. Russia tore Nagorno- Karabakh from Armenia and included it into Azerbaijan which is the cause of the current conflict. The Baltic Republics are engaged in finding a peaceful solution to end this conflict but Russia’s answer to ending the dispute was to send in military units to quell the fighting and not try and find a peaceful means of settling the dispute. We were greatly disappointed and astonished that the United States government supported the military intervention in Azerbaijan and that President Bush made a statement that the aim of American policy is to safeguard the “territorial integrity” of the Soviet Union. America has always symbolized to all nations and peoples, the ideals of freedom and democracy and national independence. Many Americans laid down their lives in defence of these ideals for other nations. Therefore such a policy contra dicts these ideals and also the statements of previous Presidents, especially President Reagan who bluntly called the Soviet Russian empire “the evil empire” in which many subjugated peoples are subjected to persecution, Russification and are denied their national and human rights. Such a policy also contradicts the spirit and essence of the Congressional Captive Nations resolution and the law to annually observe the Captive Nations Week passed in July 1959 under President Dwight Eisenhower. It reads: “ ...Whereas the imperialist policies of Communist Russia have led, through direct 1 and indirect aggression, to the subjugation of the national independence of Poland, Hungary, Lithuania, Ukraine, Czecho-Slovakia, Latvia, Estonia, White Ruthenia, Rumania, mainland China, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, North Korea, Albania, Idel-Ural, Tibet, Cossakia, Turkestan, North Vietnam, and others... therefore be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled, that the President is authorised and requested to issue a proclamation on the Fourth of July, 1959, declaring the week following such a day as “Captive Nations Week” and inviting the people of the United States to observe such a week with approp riate ceremonies and activities. The President is further authorized and requested to issue a similar proclamation on each succeeding Fourth of July until such time as freedom and independence shall have been achieved for all the captive nations of the world.” It is difficult to perceive that in a time when subjugated nations in Eastern and Central Europe, also in the Soviet Union, are striving to rid themselves of communist Russian domination, American government not only does not sustain them in their efforts, but supports the policy of Gorbachev, designed to preserve the Soviet Russian colonial empire and deny the subjugated nations in the Soviet Union the right to build a new life based on freedom, democracy and national independence. The subjugated nations in the Soviet Union count millions of victims in the struggle to rid themselves of Russian domination and live as free nations. Therefore, the free world should help them morally and politically to achieve their goal and not support the imperialist interests of Moscow. The downfall and dissolu tion of the Soviet Russian empire from within by the strength of the subjugated nations can only be to the benefit, not only to the oppressed nations, but also to the free world. It will abolish forever Moscow’s imperialist urge to conquer new territories and peoples in the world. The newly reestablished nations, with democratic regimes, will turn all their attention to rebuilding their devastated countries and will try and establish as close a cooperation with the free nations as possible. Demonstrators in Dushanbe, the capital o f Tadzhikistan, demanding the resignation of the Communist leader o f the republic. 2 HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS JOIN HUMAN CHAIN ACROSS UKRAINE TO COMMEMORATE UKRAINIAN INDEPENDENCE AND UNITY (UCIS), January 21, 1990 — Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians today turned out for a day of national solidarity to commemorate the Proclamation of Ukrainian Inde pendence and Unity on January 22, 1919, in a human chain organized by the Popular Movement of Ukraine “Rukh”. The chain, which stretched from the Ukrainian capital,