Prince Niko Nakashidze was one of the most prominent figures of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations. The General Secretary of the ABN, according to the late Mr. Vasyl Oleskiv, was one of the most loyal allies of Ukraine in the struggle against Moscow imperialism. When he died in Munich under mysterious circumstances in 1966, none of his friends had any doubts that he was killed by the KGB. Like Stepan Bandera, Lev Rebet and other figures of not only Ukrainian but other liberation struggle movements.
Today we would like to introduce the reader to his book “The Truth about ABN”, written in 1960, as a response to the slanderous campaign of the Moscow agents in Europe.
The eras echo: the now-revived ABN, like the Anti-Imperial Block of Nations, and like its predecessor, is and will continue to be subjected to informational attacks by those who stand on the path to the liberation of nations currently enslaved by Moscow.
So we hope that the answers given in the book will be relevant.
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INTRODUCTION
Ever since the A.B.N. was first founded, the representatives of the Moscow government in the Western countries, their camouflaged centres, the Communist Party and the Russian emigrant organizations have been conducting a fierce fight against it.
They can really not be reproached for doing so, for the A.B.N. supports the principle that the Soviet Union is a Russian totalitarian colonial imperium which must be disintegrated and that the foreign countries conquered and ruled by this imperium must be liberated and the independent sovereign states of these peoples restored; and to this end, the A.B.N. demands that a ruthless and relentless fight must be waged against Russian imperialism.
For there can be no peace in the world until this Russian imperium, which with its huge military strength is endeavouring to conquer the whole world, to subjugate it and enforce its Communist regime of dictatorship on it, has been destroyed.
It has long been an established fact that all Russians, both at home and abroad, unanimously agreed that this peoples’ prison — the Russian imperium — must be preserved. Hence there is so much concord and agreement between the Soviet Communist Russians at home and the nationalist and pseudo-democratic Russian emigrants in the fight against the A.B.N.
In the West, the Russians are supported by native Communists, hirelings of Moscow, co-existentialists and Russophile circles of every political colour, as well as by all political nihilists.
By joint efforts, they endeavour to paralyse the activity of the A.B.N. and to destroy this organization. They resort to every means in order to defame the A.B.N. and to put obstacles in its way.
In order to liquidate one’s opponent it is nowadays customary to brand him as “Fascist,” “Nazi” or “Anti-Semite.” In olden times an anecdote used to be told about a hare which fled from Russia because, according to a supreme decree, camels bade to be shod there. When asked why he had run away, the hare replied: “You try to prove that you are a hare and not a camel!” — Such were the conditions in Russia in former times and they are still the same! And now the civilized free world has also reached the same state.
Such, too, are the methods resorted to by the enemies of the A.B.N. We intentionally refer to them as “enemies”, for they cannot be regarded as opponents. The ancient Romans already distinguished between the concepts “enemy” and “opponent”. An opponent does not seek to destroy the life of another person, but an enemy does, and such are the beings who are fighting the A.B.N.
They not only seek to destroy the A.B.N — this would not be particularly tragic — but they also aim to destroy our people, to degrade them completely to one and the same level and to assimilate them with the Russian element. It was the Assyrians who in the 8th century B. C. resettled the peoples, mixed them together and reduced them to one uniform level. Only their names have been recorded in the later history of the world.
Since then, this process has been repeated in the history of the world a second time, and it is now the Russians who are leading the ancient civilized peoples whom they have subjected towards their national ruin.
And, incidentally, there are plenty of people in the civilized free world who support and further this crime! Others, on the other hand, regard this matter with complete indifference, as if it were no concern of theirs. And this is the world that calls itself Christian!
Some time ago, the enemies of the A.B.N. published a pamphlet in English, entitled “What Is A.B.N.”, and circulated it all over the world.
It was published by an organization which calls itself the “Ukrainian Liberation Movement”, but which in reality consists of genuine Russians who pose as “Ukrainian Federalists”.
This fictitious committee belongs to the notorious Russian chauvinistic reactionary organization NTS (Narodno-Trudovoy Soyuz = People’s Labour Union), which has its seat in Frankfurt on Main and which, practically at the same time as the said pamphlet was published, sent a strictly confidential circular letter to all the organizations friendly with the A.B.N. and also to other organizations, in which it attempted to portray the A.B.N. as a terrible body by producing proof entirely in keeping with the unscrupulousness of these Russian politicians.
Members of the peoples of Asia, to whom friendship is not an empty phrase but a virtue, brought this abusive pamphlet of the NTS to our notice.
The pro-Russians in England and France, on the other hand, hastened to spread these propaganda lies against the A.B.N. still further. Indeed, a certain Mr. H. Jaeger actually re-printed them in his publication “Bulletin on German Questions”1). It is plain to us that this Mr. Jaeger is not an Englishman, for no Englishman would publish such accusations until he had convinced himself that they were true. In England, defamation is regarded as the vilest and most despicable method of attack. We merely wish to point out this fact and are not interested in who Mr. Jaeger actually is. He has given sufficient proof of his human and moral quality by his actions. This “Bulletin” was dispatched by the French information bureau of a certain Monsieur Jean Ruhland in Loroux-Bottereau (L.—I.).
He is not the first and only Frenchman to further Russian intrigues, for there is another French group active in this respect. A Russian by the name of D. de Gourévitch (what a peculiar combination the French designation of aristocracy “de” is with the Russian name “Gourévitch” !), who, incidentally, from the legal point of view, is not entitled to bear this name since in tsarist Russia there was no designation for the petty nobility and the fact that a person was of noble descent was only indicated in his matriculation certificate or in his official rank, runs a Russian “organization”, which calls itself “Union pour la Défense des Peuples Opprimés”, and edits a monthly journal entitled “Exile et Liberté”. This organization has as its patrons certain French politicians who still have an old conception of the Russo-French alliance and who also contribute articles to the journal edited by Monsieur Gourévitch.
The above-mentioned journal recently also published an article against the A.B.N. written by Mr. Paul Monique, who based his arguments on the said pamphlet and used the lies and provocative statements contained in the latter as proof.
We shall deal with this “proof” and these “arguments” in detail further on and shall show how skilfully the Russian Soviet Fifth Column works in disseminating its vile propaganda lies and how easily many foreigners swallow its provocative statements. We sincerely regret that we are also obliged to attack the French pro-Russians who in their blind devotion to Russia have renounced the best French traditions and have so rashly abandoned the European tasks of France.
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1) Bulletin on German Questions, With Contemporary Archives, published by Gamma Publications Ltd., 15 Craven Street, London W. C. 2., Vol. X, No. 230, February 2, 1959.
