1988. augusztus (184-207. szám) / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2
is « hcín ©aríani veimmé ®m£ Editor: György Kr»«só * 24/D Llttle Russell Street « London. WC1A 2HN • Tel. 01*430 2126 (írom abroad 441-430 2126) 200/1988 (E) 25th August, 1988 Deelaration Bv the "Network fór Free Initiatives" On the Political Situation in East-Central Europe "The Soviet global system is in crisis. Its economic development has broken down, it is increasingly obvious that societies and nations have had enough of a political system which was forced on them 70 or 40 years ago" - thus begins the statement made on August 24th by the "Network fór Free Initiatives" spokespeople which deals with the democratic movements in East-Central Europe. "In Poland the growing wave of strikes reveal that the régimé established by a military coup was nőt able to solve any of the country’s serious problems." The demands have outgrown a mere expression of economic dissatisfaction, the strikers wish the state to retum to agreements which were violated in 1981. If the jruling élite does nőt fulfill society’s demands it will leave the destructive crisis unsolved and plunge the country intő catastrophe. In Czechoslovakia - continues the deelaration - a demonstration by thousands of people in Prague revealed that after twenty years of political paralysis continuous terror could nőt distract the Czechoslovakian nation from the ideas of 1968. The Husák-Jakes system, which was nőt even willing to take on a Kadar type policy of reconciliation, now finds itself faced with an outbreak of resistance by the nation. In Moscow at the announcement of the "Democratic Union" many hundreds expressed their solidarity with the Czechoslovakian nation, while official propaganda resounds with the slogans glasnost and perestroika the police display the usual brutal action of a totalitarian régimé against the demonstrators in Moscow. "The ground is shifting", continues the deelaration. " The govemments of the Soviet Block can no longer postpone the political rehabilitation of the great democratic movements of recent decades, 1956, 1968 and 1980-31. We are in solidarity with those who were maltreated, arrested and persecuted. We are in solidarity with all those who do nőt give up struggling fór a democratic East Europe" - finishes the "Network fór Free Initiatives" August 24th deelaration which was signed by Levente Ruttkay and Miklós Szabó on behalf of the spokespeople. A¥
