Regarding the Open Letter

This is the second part of my reply to the Open Letter, and since it was published, there were many letters, articles by our friends all over the world regarding the questions that were posed in the Open Letter. Let me just touch briefly on some of those replies that NSC has received regarding the International Council and the holding of the Second World Congress.

The general consensus of most of the articles-letters published in NSC was that the Second World Congress should now be postponed until September of 2005 and to held in Toronto, Canada.

This Congress is of major importance and I suggest that it should be held where all of the conditions are in place for its success. It is far from this very much needed scenario. For example, according to Nina Andreeva of the AUCPB "In Russia today there is no organization or party which is capable of holding the Second World Congress - both physically or financially. Besides, the Russian Society for Friendship with Foreign Countries is not a serious organization. Our party cannot organize or fund the Congress. Today there is no party in ex-USSR capable to undertake such an important task. Even Cuba, North Korea or China cannot help us. That is why I feel that the Congress should be postponed."

Should the Second World Congress be organized by a political party? I do not think so. The International Council for Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People is not a political party. This was repeated many times by Michael Lucas, Chairman of the International Council and Editor of Northstar Compass.

Somehow there is confusion by some of our friends on this question and some other points. Sometimes it is not always easy to distinguish some actions of many organizations – as an example, between the actions of the International Council and certain political parties, because the ultimate purpose in the long run is the same. But our actions and our battlefronts are different - as an example - although the infantry and the navy are fighting in the same war - it is necessary to see the dialectical connection between them.

Our task is rather big as it is now, without taking on the struggle against globalization, ecology, etc. as Dr. Mirko Svoboda, member of the International Council, from the Czech Republic wrote: "in this time of global imperialism, several new problems appear: ecological troubles, problems connected with globalization and that Northstar Compass has a role to play in the fight to eliminate them."

I do not feel that this is the function of Northstar Compass to take charge of these problems. Our main task is to show solidarity with the Soviet People, to help them resurrect the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. This is a noble and heavy task to accomplish. Our problems must be to seek the best means to carry on this struggle. Regrettably not much was said on this important subject. Dr. Svoboda did mention that: "we have in Northstar Compass pages an open forum for discussing our future work and our tactics."

As I have also expressed this at the First World Congress: " in order to help most effectively our Soviet friends, we must at first know their history, their successes and their causes, their struggles and causes of their setbacks. We should understand all of the processes that went into the dismemberment of their country, to be able to help, give advise to our Soviet friends and ask them to join us in this struggle. It is a question of more explanations on certain aspects and causes of the dismemberment of the USSR."

We must pursue this question and campaign on it for ideological clarification. It is necessary to help our Soviet friends and other friends to understand as to why all of the enemies of USSR make every effort to falsify the history of this period, when Stalin was the head and leader of the Soviet Union.

I feel that NSC should grant more space to this cardinal question regarding the USSR under the leadership of Joseph Stalin.

So, it is very important to listen to our Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian, Georgian and other friends from those former republics, when they tell us the reasons for the demise of the Soviet Union and the ongoing changes that brought that about.

In this way it will be easier for our friends of Soviet people and our Soviet friends to realize the purpose of our International Council for Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People.

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