News From the Former USSR

It’s About Time This Was Said!

MINSK – Byelorussian President Lukashenko said that the break-up of the Soviet Union had been orchestrated and paid for by the West.

"Such things do not just happen in politics. A lot of money was paid for that", Lukashenko said.

In 1991 the leaders at that time of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine met at the Belovezhskaya Pushcha Natural Reserve in Belarus and signed the agreement to found the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and thus abolished the USSR.

Stanislav Shushkevich, a former speaker of the Belarusian parliament, signed this agreement for Belarus, and did not have the right to do so.

"This was Shushkevich’s initiative. He should have received permission from the Belarus’ parliament for signing the documents. This was a tragic mistake. There was no reason for the USSR to disintegrate."

President Lukashenko went on to say: "The Alpha ((commando unit) should have gathered the signatories of Russia, Ukraine ad Belarus, wrapped them up in barbed wire and then let them call and report back to then President Bush senior what they signed."

President Lukashenko will not be bought

Western countries are ready to offer President Lukashenko security guarantees and his family and to pay good money for him stepping down at the coming Byelorussian elections next year.

"I want you to know. I have made my mind up and no amount of money will ever make me hide away somewhere!" Lukashenko told the presidential press conference.

CSTO Sets Up Working Group On Afghanistan

The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) embraces six former Soviet republics decided to establish this group on Afghanistan. They agreed that threats, including drug and terrorist menace have persisted largely due to the situation in Afghanistan.

This newly set-up organization CSTO, comprises of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan. It has a Collective Rapid Reaction Force deployed in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

Anything for Money, Eh Gorby!

In a photograph gathered from the Toronto, Canada newspaper, named "METRO", we see Mr. Gorbachev, forever selling his services all over the world for any cause that will bring these $$$$$

into his bank account. Now, here we see him as "President of World Awards" which are presented to internationally known women in 10 different categories.

It sure is a far cry from being President of the multinational 15 Republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Usually people who sell out their own soul, their position of trust, their own country, have no place to go but to slide down into murky, muddy waters of selling ones self to the highest bidder.

Yes, Mr. Gorbachev, you will be remembered as the top sell-out artist in the annals of world history.

There is a saying in the Carpathian Mountains that fits just nicely here:

Dear comrades and friends:

Thank you very much for sending us the Second World Congress delegate’s portfolio containing all of the materials and proceedings of the Second Congress. We completely support all of the resolutions adopted by the delegates. We wish the new International Council and the Editorial Board of NSC that were elected great success in their future work.

We will publish the Main Report in our next issue of our Communist Herald Journal.

The 4^th Congress of our Citizens of USSR which was held in Moscow on October 29-30, 2005 has welcomed and agreed that there is a great need for the flourishing of the newly established Soviet Society for Friendship with Foreign Countries. We shall be sending you the relevant material soon.

Enclosed is the latest issue of the Communist Herald Journal.

Yours as ever

S.G. Savelev, Chairman
All Ukrainian Movement For the Soviet Union
Editor of Communist Herald

MOSCOW – The chief of Russia’s General Staff, General Yuri Basluyevsky, has ruled out the "complete demilitarization" of the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, a region that borders Poland and Lithuania.

"Never will the Russian political leadership agree to the complete demilitarization of our territory of Kaliningrad region. We are already modernizing the Kaliningrad group of our armed forces."

The General also made a statement that the: "US has made demands that a number of countries’ nuclear programs should be completely transparent. On the other hand, the United States itself turns a blind eye to the fact that Israel has for a very long time had and has a significant nuclear arsenal."

Dear sir:

On behalf of the Executive Committee of the International Council for Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People and, on behalf of the Editorial Board of Northstar Compass journal, we are sending this protest regarding the dangerous health situation of the innocent political prisoner M. Burokjavichus who is supposed to be let out to freedom on January 14, 2006.

Being held due to your witch-hunt against Communists, he is held under inhuman conditions and is suffering so that there is real danger that he might die in captivity at the age of 79.

We demand his unconditional release to seek treatment outside Lithuania, since your government is acting like Hitler did in August of 1944 when he had the German communist leader E. Thaelmann killed just as the Soviet Red Army was liberating Germany.

No one shall escape punishment for crimes against humanity, no matter whether he is a clerk or a president!

On behalf of the International Council
Michael Lucas, Chairman

"Not too long ago the regime of Georgia had perpetrated a clash with the opposition movement, called "Truthfulness". The state apparatus has perpetrated a physical battle against unarmed people. In a score of cities and towns, the Georgian secret services of the state arrested activists, amongst them the activists of our Communist Union of Youth.

Our members were fulfilling the tasks of our Central Committee by taking an active part in the demonstrations and to make certain that they were well organized. After the demonstrations were brutally broken up, our activists in Batumi and Khobi, Kataisi and other centres of Georgia, the Security militia, in black masks over their faces, took our comrades into a forest and proceeded to beat them up viciously and then left them there.

This again confirms that the present regime is an anti-peoples regime as was practiced before by Shevernadze, and they will do everything possible to put down any demonstration or any protest with weapons.

Unfortunately, it is a fact that none of the so-called opposition parties and movements have openly condemned these fascist attacks on the people. The propaganda being promoted by the present regime and supported by their Western capitalist masters, that "the opposition forces" have full freedom. Most of the Georgian opposition forces are basically cooperating with the present regime and do not condemn the attacks against the people.

Today’s regime in Georgia has copied to the letter the openly fascist methods of crushing any opposition. All this was now shown to the people of Georgia in reality. By these methods the regime tries to scare the people and thus prevent them from fully demonstrating their opposition to the devastating policies of the present Western-supported regime.

Our CC of the Communist Union of Youth of Georgia is condemning this open terror against the people and their demands. We are going to be together with the people with our progressive forces and supporting all anti-regime movements in fighting this anti-peoples regime."

From Russian Reform Monitor

Putin has appointed the Kremlin administration chief Dmitry Medvedev to the post of First Deputy Prime Minister and given the Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov the additional job of Prime Minister, According to the Financial Times, analysts believe that the changes indicate that Medvedev is favoured to succeed Putin as president in 2008, with Ivanov as "a reserve candidate"

President Putin and Uzbek President Karimov have signed a treaty that states that an attack on either country will be considered an act of "aggression" against both, thus giving Russia the possibility of using a military base in Uzbekistan.

The only problem in this is that Uzbekistan has no border with Russia!

The Federal Security Service has arrested the head of a Russian rocket technology firm on charges of selling state secrets to China, BBC reported. Igor Reshetin, director of TNIIMASH Export, is being held in Moscow’s Lefortovo prison, along with his deputy and another top assistant, on charges of illegally selling technology for military use.

The head of the Russian State Duma’s committee for CIS affairs, Andre Kokoshkin, has stated that "Ukraine’s accession into NATO would erect a Berlin Wall between it and Russia and Belarus, requiring a totally different regime that would hit tens of millions of people. Ukraine’s membership in NATO is absolutely absurd, given that it is not being threatened either by Russia or Belarus, who are its main neighbours.