At 4:00 am soldiers of the Berkut special police unit smashed up the tent camp set up by the participants of the "Ukraine Arise" protest action; people were severely beaten and many arrested. Julia Timoshenko’s coalition launched this protest in Kiev’s European Square.
According to the head of the foreign economic relations department in the Kiev City Administration, Mikhail Pozhivanov, 50,000 people gathered on the European Square
Participants of the large protests produced and adopted resolutions demanding the immediate resignation of President Kuchma and extraordinary elections should follow in the Ukraine. Participants of the demonstration voiced their demands that "the social, political of the country demonstrates a policy of genocide of the Ukrainian people." The document adopted also mentions "corruption, gangsterism of oligarchic clans and top officials, an economic crisis flourishing in the country, and freedom of speech being strictly limited in Ukraine." This official resolution was signed by leaders of parties such as Victor Yushchenko, Pyitor Simonenko, Alexander Moroz and Julia Timoshenko.
Head of the presidential administration Viktor Medvedchuk addressed the protesters at about 7:00p, and said that he had already informed the president about the events in the country. Journalists asked him whether the president was told about the details of the resolution that was passed by the protesters.
A day after the protesters blocked many streets in central Kiev, which joined the presidential administration with the Supreme Rada and the Cabinet of Ministers. The demonstrators set up about 130 tents right on the traffic-way. This was a rather striking picture to see.
I saw the tents and the demonstrators were cheerful and they vowed that nobody would leave the tent city until President Kuchma resigns. Such were the beliefs of the people as they settled for the night. But a group of police, militia gathered near the building of the Cabinet Ministers.
The protesters were televised on all TV channels. The Prime Minister of Ukraine said to the journalists that "there are only 24,700 people in the demonstration not the over 200,000 as the organizers stated. Therefore, nothing extraordinary has or will happen."
That was an obvious lie, because a report from Lvov, as televised before the interview, showed and told that over 200,000 people are protesting. This was tried to be hushed up by the government.
At 4:00 am the following day (remember that Hitler attacked the USSR the same time in June 22 of 1941) people in uniform and masks attacked the protesters who were sleeping quietly in their tents, with rubber batons. The people were beaten regardless of their sex or social position. The battle was very severe; the protesters were beaten over their heads. One of the protesters was a leg-less man who stayed in his tent, but the attackers beat him severely. I cannot be sure whether he us alive or not. The police and militia who attacked the camp were very cruel. Some people were dragged physically from the camp, and we do not know where they are now. The leaders of the opposition parties tried to stop the police mayhem, but in vain.
People from the Kuchma opposition were seriously injured, and some are still missing.
The court order was issued to disperse from the camp. When the opposition refused to leave, the police used extreme and cruel force.
It is strange that the court decision was passed by a court in charge of another part of the city and not by the court that has jurisdiction for this party of Kiev. The demonstrators will demonstrate that Kuchma’s regime is very much like a bloody dictatorship.
Alexander Gorobets
Pravda Russian
June 21-22, 2002
Kiev
In a story in the Russian newspaper Pravda (which is not the Pravda as it was during Soviet times-Editor)– nevertheless has this very interesting reprint of an interview by the German newspaper Der Spiegel with Sergey Khrushchev in New York.
"What he was saying resembled very much what his father had done years ago, he slandered Stalin and the Soviet Union. He did it probably for fear that the Soviet archives may come to light, and people will see Nikita Khrushchev’s blooded hands, the blood they shed by other people."
SPIEGEL: Your father approved hundreds or perhaps thousands of death sentences during the 1930’s.
KHRUSHCHEV: I know. My father told me how Stalin did it: Stalin came with a list of names and declared them as people’s enemies. He said that they all were sentenced to death, that is why the Soviet leadership, including my father, had to sign the list as well. It is quite natural that my father could not have avoided signing the list.
The lie is felt in the first lines at once. Can you imagine that it was Stalin, the head of the USSR, had nothing to do but start gathering a list of names? Nikita Khrushchev was the first that started to slander Stalin, he did it for fear of upcoming disclosures.
This is rather a popular method in politics. If you slander your predecessor you might be promoted. Although a large percentage of Stalin’s documents were destroyed on the personal orders of Nikita Khrushchev, publications about this action before the year of 1953 often appear. Such materials reveal that Khrushchev wasn’t a humanist at all. Some verbatim records of Khrushchev's speeches have been published.
For example, early January 1936 when the USSR and the CPSU were fighting and cleansing the hidden enemies within the party and government, Nikita Khrushchev being the First Secretary the Moscow Committee of the CPSU, was displeased at the slowness and the insufficient numbers of those arrested. At the Plenary Session he said: "Only 308 people have been arrested. I say that this is not enough for the large Moscow communist organization. We must liquidate these scoundrels."
Khrushchev falsified accusations, pumped up names in Moscow and had all 38 party secretaries, Komsomol leaders, Trade Union leaders and cultural leaders investigated and sentenced. All of these arrests were authorized by Khrushchev and Stalin’s name is not among the signatures or that Stalin was even informed.
When Khrushchev was the First Secretary of the CPSU in Ukraine, Khrushchev complained to Stalin in a letter in 1938: "Every month Ukraine sends lists to Moscow of enemies 17-18,000 people. This is too low. I ask you to remedy this situation. Why does Moscow approve only about 2,000 people? I ask you to take measures in this respect."
As it is clear from the publications, it was not Khrushchev that was pressed down, on the contrary, he himself demanded for more repression, as was the plan of the enemies such as Khrushchev. This is shameful information about Nikita Khrushchev that his son wants to conceal."
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| Felix Gorelik |
Is there a real possibility that in Russia there shall appear a regime of bloody dictatorship as was with Pinochet in Chile? The shooting-up and bombardment by Yeltsin regime of the Russian Supreme Soviet in 1993 now has changed and the new Putin regime adopted different form of dictatorship. Today the battle is not led by tanks and cannons, but in very cool, cruel and calculated psychological attacks on the people.
Fulfilling the directives of the present regime, the "independent judges" do not bite the hands that feed them. Just lately these "judges" sentenced to longer jail terms these very young revolutionaries from "Revolsoviet" then murderers, robbers and criminals. There crime was that they toppled the monument to "Nickolai the Bloody Czar." Two young girls from the movement "Patros" are jailed for the simple reason that they tried to teach young pioneers the Soviet way of life! That was their crime!
All this was based on one TV report and after that, without any witnesses, the crocodile tears flowed on and on in the TV, press and radio – including Radio Europe, called "Freedom". If anything of this sort happened to the so called "human rights activists" here, there would be such propaganda that even President of USA would have mixed into this affair, plus the US Congress, defending "human rights" in Russia. But here in Russia, everything is mum. The civil rights defenders here and abroad are quite, as if their tongues got tied!
Why did these judges sentenced one young girl to 8 years in jail, while the other young Komsomol got 6 years! Did these two girls kill anyone, robbed anyone, robbed or demolished state property? NO! These two young Komsomols organized a youth camp for pioneers, where they taught them to operate combines, tractors, taught them a curriculum of how to get into high school, taught them the danger of smoking, alcohol and drugs, and above all, taught them to be patriots of socialism and of the Soviet Union.
These young people loved this commune and took to following the teachings of scientist Makarenko. They themselves undertook the discipline that if someone did not follow the commune rules, they were excluded from this Commune. How and in what could the judges blame these young girls? They were charged that they were teaching communist ideology. They were charged of forming an "illegal organization" and of training the youngsters in revolutionary activities and insurrection.
The judges also blamed these two young girls that there was too strong discipline not arrest millions of mothers and fathers who try to bring up their own children by strong discipline?
The whole basis for these attacks on the young people by Putin and his regime is to try and stifle the unrest and the demands of the younger generation, who do not see any future for themselves. Where "sweet talk and promises" do not work by this regime, the heavy hand of "Pinochet-style" regime takes over. In this campaign the regime utilizes the Russian Orthodox Church to scare the youth into submission and, who now are demanding and getting all of the former lands, buildings, rivers, livestock, implements, factories that was confiscated from the church and given out to the people after the Great October Revolution.
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