Let Us Remember Slavic Holocaust Too!

In order for future generations to understand history, it must not be falsified or completely obliterated from the history books or from the memory of the present or future generations!

We are coming to that month of May, sixty years ago, when the world finally was able to put an end to the Second World War, that was started and abetted by Imperialism, when over 50,000,000 people worldwide lost their lives!

Of those 50 million lives lost, the Soviet Union lost over 26,000,000 people – most of them of Slavic origin – Russians, Byelorussians and Ukrainians. Besides this enormous loss of the USSR, there were hundreds of thousands of Slavic people killed, murdered, burned in crematoriums that lived and fought the Nazis in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. The 50,000,000 people lost in this world-wide Holocaust represented many nationalities, that should be remembered on this coming 60^th Anniversary of the ending of World War II.

Of the many death camps during World War Two, there was the Theresienstadt prison in the fortress where there languished a famous 17 year-old prisoner, Gavrilo Princip, a Czech, who assassinated Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914. The Czech people regard him as a national hero because it was only after World War I that the Czech nation gained their freedom from the Austrians that they were trying to achieve since 1620.

Let us remember that the Slavs, the Communists and the Gypsies languished in these prisons long before any other people. In this prison during World War II there were not only Jews imprisoned that fought together with the resistance movement. Of the 1,500 prisoners in this camp, 90% were non Jewish Czech Communists.

So, when we are remembering the victims of this Nazi Holocaust, let us remember that there were people of many nationalities – all 50,000,000 of them! Of this terrible catastrophic genocide, the Soviet Union lost 26,000,000!

Yanukovich Demands Referendum on NATO

Viktor Yanukovich, former Prime Minister of Ukraine and former candidate for president, said that the decision to join NATO must be decided by a Referendum. He said that he has the right to demand this since one half of Ukraine voted for him in the presidential election.

Only Caspian States Have Rights to the Caspian

A Russian diplomat said that the Caspian States have the exclusive rights to the Caspian Sea and the Caspian resources. Russian Foreign Ambassador Alexander Golovin said last month. He was taking part in a round table meeting on the collective security system in the Caspian Sea.

"Russia aims at the definition of the Caspian Sea status, and it is creating a working group with that goal. We are discussing a major clash of national interests in the Caspian Sea division," he said.

The Caspian Sera has 4 billion tones of appraised oil reserves and 7 billion tones of appraised gas reserves.

Russia also is setting up a Rapid Reaction Force to defend its territory – the Caspian Sea.

Four CIS Countries Organized Joint Air Defence System

Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan are organizing a joint air defense system, according to Lieutenant General Altech Bizhev, deputy chief of the Russian Air Force Joint Defense System. So far, Ukraine is not willing to join, but talks between the countries are going on.

Speaking about the cooperation between CIS air defense, Mr. Bizhev said that in 2004, the Council of CIS Heads of Government in Astana passed a decision to allocate about two billion rubles in 2005 for developing a joint air defense system, with joint training, joint maintenance and implementing a common defense strategy.

Eastern Ukraine Protest Yushchenko’s Visit to Donetsk

A mass demonstration was held in Donetsk against Yushchenko, the new president of Ukraine. That mass rally was organized by the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine.

"We are against Yushchenko’s visit. We have not recognized him, as a constitutionally elected president. He came to power as a result of a coup" – said Lyudmila Kazetkyna, leader of the PSPU Donetsk region and one of the organizers of this protest.

Speakers at this rally-protest supported the proposed union of Russia and Belarus.

Immediate Withdrawal of Ukrainian Soldiers from Iraq

Thousands of Kiev citizens and Ukrainian citizens in other cities across Ukraine held mass rallies last February 21, in order to show their protest against the ongoing aggression by US and Britain against Iraq – and also, to show support of the Ukrainian peoples with the Iraqis who are fighting this occupation and killing – plus – the demand that the Ukrainian soldiers contingent be immediately recalled back home! Taking part in these protests were the Communist Party of Ukraine, Union of Workers of Ukraine, Union of Women Workers, For the Future of the Children of Ukraine, All Union of Soviet Officers of Ukraine, Lenin Komsomol and many other organizations.

The demonstrators marched under red flags ad banners and slogans such as: "Give us back our children from Iraq!", "No to Ukraine Joining NATO!", "The Regime of Yushchenko is doomed!", "Return back all that was stolen from the People!".

The present Viktor Yushchenko government purposely bussed in hundreds of young people and school teenagers, and. with police looking on, these foolish youngsters, who got a day off from school, were told to try and grab the microphones from the speakers. They also tried to start provocations but, this too was not successful because of the determination and steadfastness of the demonstrators.

All the demonstrators and all the speakers blamed former President Kuchma, who was scared of US and took the decision to pass the law to allow the Ukrainian soldiers to be sent to Iraq. This US propaganda, mouthed by forces of Yushchenko, was that already in Iraq there were 19 Ukrainian soldiers killed. Kuchma buckled and allowed Ukraine to participate in this genocidal war.

It was also pointed out that a decision was already made by Ukrainian parliament at the end of 2004 to re-call back the Ukrainian contingent from Iraq. The people also demanded that all talks cease about Ukraine joining NATO.

The demonstration was on such a mass scale that Yushchenko was forced to make a symbolic appearance and a statement, but no official pronouncement was made.

In the end of his short appearance, he was forced to agree to meet representatives of the demonstration. He demanded that no such demonstrations be held again until he is sworn in.

But the mass participants of this demonstration did not forget that just a month previous, his "orange counterrevolution" was the one which started this chaos. And this showed that his promoted "democracy" is not coming off as well as he thought it would.

The resolution that was adopted by the meeting put Yushchenko on notice that the demands of the people must be met and the Ukrainian contingent must be recalled back from Iraq by March 20, 2005. If this is not done, the demonstrators will march all across Ukraine in even much larger numbers than now. Demonstrations such as this one in Kiev were held in all of the cities across Ukraine.

NATO-Ukraine Cooperate on Arms Destruction

BRUSSELS – NATO announced a 12-year program to help Ukraine destroy millions of surplus Soviet weapons. NATO is happy that Ukraine has agreed to this largest demilitarization effort that will be underway anywhere in the world.

This Announcement confirmed that the Westward-leaning President Yushchenko, while visiting NATO headquarters in Brussels asked for integration and cooperation between the military of NATO and Ukraine.

Motherland Is in Great Danger!

In Russia there are more and more people who started to understand, as to what is actually happening in the country and where they are being led. But unfortunately there are only a few people in government positions, politicians or some members of the Russian Duma, who are brave enough to speak about this situation openly to everyone. In the Murmansk Region of Russia, in the Russian Duma, there is such a person. He is Vasil V. Kalaida, a dedicated patriot of his country, son of the Soviet Motherland, which he loves more than his own life. Of course, such people know that their life in this "Democratic Russia" is bitter sweet to say the least. Overlooking the fact that this "Open Letter" to Putin was adopted by many thousands of people at meetings held January 23, 2005, but here, in this Region he is labeled by Putin’s regime as an "extremist" that is undermining the state, and for his for the truth he was sent an official letter "warning him of consequences."

People are seeing that any different point of view to that of the present bourgeois state, you are labeled a "terrorist", "extremist" and jail is waiting for anyone that in their eyes falls into that label. Today, all of Russia has become a giant Concentration Camp, a Gulag. The rise in price of transportation, the taking away of social benefits is such that most people, the elder generation, cannot afford to travel. This situation caused thousands of people to come out on strikes, demonstrations and picketing, besides blocking roads of transport. The police took their revenge on the elderly, the students and other protestors with clubs. The regime is playing the with people as if they were shuffling cards.

In honour of the 250^th Anniversary of the Lomonosov University, Putin gave each student $3 towards their costs of studying at the University. What a bitter laugh? Prices for everything is so great that misery of the people sees no bounds. Medical care, medicines are privatized and costs are soaring up and up. Schooling will be free only up to 4 classes! We should remember the plans of Hitler for the Russian people – the plan was that there should be left between 10-15 million able-bodied people to work for the Reich, while the other ones should be done away with through lack of all services.

These present Putin’s Reforms are meant to bring Russia unto its knees for the benefit of Imperialism and its New World Order.

Valentina Druchinina
Teacher, Candidate of Medical Science
Chief Editor of the newspaper "Bolshevik" and "Socialist Choice:

New Opposition to NATO Formed in Ukraine

Ukraine’s pro-Moscow former prime minister and presidential loser, Viktor Yanukovich lashed out last month against those former Soviet republics which are courting NATO in order to join. He said to a rally in Kiev that: "We must do everything we can to make sure that Ukraine does not integrate with NATO". The winner of this crooked election in Ukraine, Yushchenko, wants to join NATO and the European Union.

Yanukovich said that the rupture with Russia, would harm Ukraine very deeply and there is a need to form an economic union with other former Soviet republics.

An opinion poll published last month indicated that 44% to 15% of people of Ukraine are against joining NATO.

Ukraine War Crimes Tribunal Condemns Washington and NATO

President Clinton and other NATO leaders were found guilty of crimes against peace by an International Peoples Tribunal on War Crimes Against Yugoslavia - that met in Kiev January 23, 2005 in its parliament building. This hearing was held in defiance of the US-backed regime of former President Kuchma.

Delegates from Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Yugoslavia, Czech Republic, Poland, Germany and the US took part in the hearings. This hearing got support from the Socialist, Communist and other Ukrainian opposition parties. These International Tribunals are organized by the International Action Center and by former US Attorney General, Ramsey Clark.

At the right is a Banderovets. On the left is me, "Moskalk" (Russian). He hates Russia and Russians. Russia will always remain mighty and together with other former republics will again become a mighty Union of Soviet Socialist Republics!

This so-called "Independent Ukraine" – this is nothing but a "smoldering regime", because new earth-shattering events are waiting for this regime. The question of Crimea, where there is great danger of another "Chechnya." Besides this boiling region, there is real danger that Ukraine will split itself into the Western and Eastern Ukraine. With the Western part becoming part of the American zone of influence, plus the territorial ambition of Turkey in Crimea. This is a real danger.

These "George Soros Orange demonstrators" have never read Marx, that the dumping of Western goods while closing the Ukrainian industrial enterprises will not make the life of Ukrainians better at all. Western Ukrainians do not want to understand that the GNP of Ukraine is made by the Russian speaking Eastern Ukraine where 80% of the GNP comes from.

Western Ukraine will never-ever be independent or even survive economically. Only a united Socialist Ukraine can be mighty. Let us more quickly yell out and demand: "Regime of Yushchenko is a regime of Bandits and must resign!" This should be our battle cry!

One more thing:

The propaganda that is ongoing since 1917 was that the whole Czar’s Nikolai I family was killed by the Bolsheviks, is a complete lie. To this day there was not found not even one document signed by Lenin or Stalin that ordered the execution of the Czar and his family. These propagandists will not allow the truth to come out, since they would have to lift the "Czars killers" name from the heads of the Bolsheviks!

Abkhazia Republic Rejects Georgian Demands

The President of the Republic of Abkhazia wants to be part of the reconstituted USSR, Sergei Bagapsh, told the Russian news agency that his government rejects the Georgian demands that Ukrainian troops be used as peacekeepers in Abkhazia or EU or NATO troops

Abkhazia is against being incorporated into the present Georgia regime, while Georgia wants to annex this Republic which was recognized by the USSR. Georgia had invaded Abkhazia before and under prodding by US imperialism, it wants this oil rich territory.

Krasnodar

Te Road Maps designed by the US military in this region, are leading to World War III. When the high brass at the US European Commander Jamieboy Jones, lets the cat out of the bag, at one of these forks on this Road, this cat is supposed to chase rats, but the Caucasus mountains are not a good place for the American cat to chase rats disguised as "Security and Economic Rights" essential for the good and welfare of USA. It seems that the US Pentagon brass must have spent too long in the brainwashed training at Mickey Mouse Centers. People of the Caucasus will not accept this Disney Land!