1987. szeptember (101-111. szám) / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2
1 Mi 2.4/0 UHU R«»*«H Stfeet, LONDONI, WC.f • Ttl. PY-440 K u • G. Rroi*6 102/1987/e/ 4th September, 1987 Declaration bv the Budapest INCONNU group on the independence of the Baltié states The independent art group INCONNU addressed a letter to the Soviet embassy in Budapest in which they expressed their solidarity with the struggle fór independence of three Baltié nations. In the summer of 1940 Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were annexed by the Soviet Union on the basis of the friendship and non-aggression pact concluded with Nazi Gerraany on August 23,1939. As is well known, this pact’s secret clause determined precisely the limits of the Eastern European Germán and Soviet "spheres of interest", and thus occassioned World War II: Germany and the Soviet Union occupied and divided Poland, the Soviet Union attacked Finland, then annexed areas belonging to Románia - Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina - and occupied three independent Baltié countries. To mark the anniversary of the German-Soviet pact which was concluded 4-8 years ago, members of the independent art group sent the following letter to the Soviet embassy in Budapest: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Embassy Budapest VI Bajza st. 35 Your Excellency, We ask you to convey our declaration to your government and to the peoples of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. The friendship and non-aggression pact which was concluded between Hitler’s Germany and the Soviet Union on August 23 1939, or more precisely its’ secret clause, ensured the Soviet Union’s annexation of the Baltié countries. The friendship pact concluded with Nazi Germany, and its’ secret clause, violates in all legal and morál senses the nations’ universal right to self-government. We think that the fact of the Soviet military occupation and presence is unacceptable fór the Baltié, fór Eastem-Europe and fór all countries within the "Soviet sphere of interestf'.Vfe are in solidarity with the struggle of all nations fór autonomy,váth Iheirfjght against foreign occupying forces. Budapest, August 26f 1987. INCONNU art group The members of the INCONNU group originally wanted to send a telegram to the Soviet embassy, bút the post office refused to deliver it. However the post office staff did nőt take any threatening steps, bút giving friendly advice proposed that the declaration was delivered as a registered letter. The letter was sent on September 3 by the INCONNU group to the Soviet embassy in Budapest. Aj
