Szittyakürt, 1978 (17. évfolyam, 1-9. szám)

1978-09-01 / 9. szám

Official publication of the

Revolutionary Council of the

HUNGÁRIA FREEDOM FIGHTER MOVEMENT

SOVIETS CONTINUE CZARIST EMPIRE

60 years after the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia resembles more a colonial empire, than the paradise of the proletariat. Abroad, Soviet military occupies a larger territory, than the Czars ever achieved, while at home annexed nationalities are serving their Slavic masters as inmates of a giant labor camp. And their unending quest for world domination was recently defined by Leonid Brezhnev when he stated “hardly a comer of the globe lies outside Soviet interest and influence.”

Let us examine, what are the guiding principles of Russia today. How is the Communist ideology practiced by the leaders of the Kreml? What are the top priorities of the Soviet leadership and what purpose do they serve?

THE WILL OF THE CZAR

The ideology, the fanfare, the red flags are all there, but the underlying spirit goes far beyond the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Russia today fulfills The Will of Peter the Great far more than the Communist Manifesto. According to the document, —Peter enjoins the Russians to ob-PEACE FOR WAR

WAR FOR PEACE

serve these instructions as the Jews observed the Laws of Moses and prophesies, that they will be successful. And The Will of Peter the Great reminds us as follows:

PETER THE GREAT WILL (1682-1725)

1. Russia must keep her men continually in training for war. She should be at peace only when It is necessary for her to recuperate financially. Thus war must serve peace, and peace war for the greater glory of Russia.

2. Every able general, every learned man amonj the best instructed nations of Europe that can be induced to settle in the dominations of the Czar is an advantage gained.

3. We must take part in all the affairs of Europe. We must especially sow and foster discord in Germany.

4. Poland must be divided. We can let the neighboring powers have a share until we can retake what we have yielded.

5. Sweden must be subjugated, therefore we must separate Sweden from Denmark and keep up a rivaly between them.

6. The wives of Russian princes should always be chosen among the German princesses, to increase our influence in Germany.

7. Commercially, we must ally ourselves with England. We need English gold and want her seamen and traders to teach ours.

8. We must incessantly extend ourselves along the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea.

9. We must advance towards Constantinople and India. When we have India we can do without English gold, for the power which holds the wealth of India is the true mistress of the world. We must make war continually upon both Turkey and Persia until we have compassed the downfall of both. We must try to revive the ancient commerce of the Levant and Syria with Europe and India.

10. We must promise to Austria our help in making her mistress of all Germany, and must excite the jealousies of the German princes against her.

11. We may give Austria a share of Turkey when we drive the Turks from Europe. What we give her, we can retake afterward.

12. All adherents of the Greek churches in Hungary, Turkey and Poland we must support. They will be our friends in the midst of the enemies’ country.

13. When Sweden, Persia, Poland and Turkey have been subjugated, when the Baltic and the Black Seas are guarded by our ships, we must first offer to France, and, if she refuses, to Austria, to share the world with her. Thus using one to destroy the other, we can rush the remaning one at our ease.

14. If both refuse we must excite their jealousies until they exhaust each other by continual wars. Then Germany must be attacked with overwhelming forces. When Germany and France are overcome, the rest of Europe will immediately submit to us. Thus can and mnst

Europe be subdued.

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More than 250 years passed, since the Will of the great Russian emperor was formulated, but the last 60 years have made it reality. Under the slogans of liberation, equality, solidarity and other philanthropic propaganda the Pan- Slav movement has built mankind’s most ruthless colonial empire. The spread of Communism was no more than a tool to achieve Russian influence and power elsewhere.

RUSSIFICATION OF THE TURANIAN PEOPLE

Out of the 250 million population of the Soviet Union, only 133 million are Slavic Russians. The others are made up of 115 different nationalities, who are mostly Turanian (Altaic people) and have no Slavic background. The Soviets have brutally incorporated these people into their so called Socialist Republic and exterminated those who resisted. 4 million Crimean Tatars were massacred among countless others who refused to join the Russian empire. How are these nationalities doing today inside Russia? The best way to answer that question is to quote from the March 4, 1977 issue of the Peking Review, the official publication of the Peoples Republic of China. This journal has made an outstanding analysis on this subject under the title “New Tsars Push a National Annexation Policy.” The article is so well documented that I felt it would be unjust to leave anything out, therefore the entire section is

reproduced as follows:

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NEW TSARS PUSH A NATIONAL ANNEXATION POLICY

In its "Resolution on the 60th Anniversary of the October Revolution," the Soviet revisionist ruling clique talked endlessly about how it had faithfully implemented the Leninist principles on national policy, boasting that “the fraternal flendshlp and unity among all Soviet nationalities have been strengthened and become rock-firm,” "real equality among all nationalities, big and small, has been secured in all aspects of social life,” “all nationalities have been drawn closer to each other In an all-round way,” etc. Bur just a look at the stark reality of national oppression in the Soviet Union today reveals that the Kremlin bosses are simply lying.

As is well-known, the Declaration on the Formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics adopted in 1922 stipulates that the “freedom of national development of the people of all nationalities Is ensured,” "the union is assured of being a voluntary alliance of all equal nationalities” and “every republic Is guaranteed the right freely to secede from the union.” But the Soviet revisionist ruling clique, completely betraying the declaration, has stepped up policies of national oppression and annexation at home. As a result, the Russian population has been increasing rapidly while the number of many non-Russian peoples has been decreasing steadily or relatively.

RUSSIANIZATION ENFORCED

The “Programme of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union" adopted in 1961 at the 22nd congress of the revisionist Soviet party provides for forced migration under the pretext of “the emergence of new Industrial centres,” “the discovery and exploitation of natural resources” and "reclamation of wasteland.” In the 1968-69 period alone, 2.2 per cent of the Soviet inhabitants was forced to move from one city to another. The figure reached 2.9 per cent in the case of Russian migrants “from city to city,” causing “an Increasingly Impure composition of inhabitants in every republic." For instance, in cities in the Uzbek, Moldavian, Turkmen and Tajik republics, Russian inhabitants account for 28.3 to 30.4 per cent of the population. In addition, the Soviet revisionist authorities have worked out a series of administrative measures and advocated intermarriage to accelerate Russianization. Intermarriage makes up 21 per cent of the married couples in Latvia, 25 per cent in Moldavian and Ukraninian cities and 17 per cent in the rural areas of the Kazakh republic. This is even more striking in the Russian S.F.S.R.— 33.2 per cent and 31 per cent in the Karelian and Komi autonomous republics respectively.

MAJORITY NATIONALITIES ANNEXED

As a result of the Russianization policy enforced by the Soviet revisionist ruling clique, minority nationalities have been annexed one after another and their population has declined from year to year. The 1959 census showed that there were 115 nationalities in the Soviet Union. Their number decreased to 104 in 1970. The population of five of the 104 has dropped, notably that of the Karelians and Mordovians. The number of Karelians decreased 40 per cent, from 248,100 in 1926 to 146,100 in 1970 of whom over 50,000 use Russian as their language, thus putting the Karelians in a precarious position. In 1956, Khrushchov demoted Karelia to an autonomous republic on the pretext of its population decline. With its population continuing to fall, its autonomous republic status can hardly be guaranteed. Some 200,000 Mordovians were assimilated by the Russians in the 1959-70 period, and now, of the more than 1.2 million Mordovians, only 13 per cent frequently use Mordovian language. This has fully bared the acts of the Soviet revisionist ruling clique in betraying Lenin’s instruction: “The strictest rules mutt be Introduced on the use of the national language In the non-Russian republics of our union” (The Question of

Nationalities or “Autonomisation,” 1922) and has given the lie to its braggadocio about the "all-round development” of the languages of all nationalities.

The proportion of some minority nationalities to the total population in their republics is dwindling, while that of the Russian people is steeply rising. For instance, the number of Russians in the Kazakh republic has shot up to 46 per cent of the total population; on the other hand, the number of Kazakhs has sunk to 32 per cent. The ratio of Ukrainians, Moldavians, Latvians and Estonians to the total population in their republics has also diminished.

To conceal its plot to annex the non-Russian peoples, Soviet revisionist ruling clique propaganda has vigorously asserted that all Soviet nationalities "had voluntarily chosen Russian as their common language used In exchanges and co-operation among them," the “internationalization" and “Interaction" in the life of the people of all nationalities are being strengthened and “a new community of historical significance" composed of “the Soviet people” has emerged. This so-called "new community" is actually a “community" designed to Russianize the minority nationalities. Is this not a self-confession by the new tsars of annexing the non-Russian nationalities, depriving them of their political rights and establishing a great-Russian empire? In this connection, the Soviet press has frankly admitted that "in the Soviet Union, all nationality« are assimilating each other, which has deprived the union republics of their characteristics, and forfeiting the characteristics of the union republics and autonomous republics will lead to the complete integration of all nationalities in terms of national rights."

RESISTANCE OF THE PEOPLE

The October 24 issue of the U.S. News and World Report has devoted a special section to Russia, raising many interesting questions. One of these was: “Does the ordinary Russian see his country as a World Leader as a Superpower? — Oh certainly!” the writer explains: “It results more from their Russiannes than from any ideological attachment to Communism, or even any deep feeling that ideology is important.”

The magazine’s correspondents Knight and Wallace have found similar trends as revealed by the Peking Review, They said: “The government is trying to homogenize and Russify the entire population. It is another example of how the Soviets talk one way and act in another. There is a heavy emphasis on replacing nationality languages with Russian.”

In this special report, Bernard Levin British commentator said “Perhaps the most powerful of all the dissident movements has been the one fueled by nationalist feeling: Ukranians, Lithuanians, Uzbegs, Estonians and other national minorities who are struggling—their national pride all the stronger for decades of repression—for what

they see as their birthright.”

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Elizabeth Pond, the Christian Science Monitor’s Moscow correspondent wrote a series of articles in November 1976, with the title, “U.S.S.R. Not A Melting Pot.” Ms.