A selection of archival documents of the International of Freedom

Content:
1. A word to the nations enslaved and threatened by Bolshevism.
2. Prof. V. Paklen. Is Bolshevism really dangerous to the world and the “gray man”?
3. O. Suvory. Ideological and political foundations of the International Freedom Movement.
4. K. Dubrovich. The liberation path of the Belarusian people.
5. Georgia. To the history of Georgia.
6. Kazbek. The North Caucasus in the struggle for independence.
7. Cossacks. The struggle of the Cossack people for their will and independence.
8. V. Sokolyuk. Thirty years of the Liberation Struggle of the Ukrainian people (1917-1947).
9. Latest news. From Belarus.
10. Prof. I. Bocharov. In Cossackia.
11. Ukraine is in a struggle
12. Memorial

For reference:
International of Freedom (IF) is an international organization created on December 4, 1946 at the founding meeting of “representatives of the Ukrainian, Belarusian, Czech, Cossack, and Serbian nations” in Munich on the initiative of Orest Zybachynskyi. He was its chief secretary from 1946 to 1949 and the editor of a quarterly published under the same name. IF defended “social freedoms” not only in communist countries, but also in other state systems at that time, in fact it stood for the protection of human rights.
The main goal of the organization was the fight against Russian-Bolshevik imperialism.
The governing bodies of the International of Freedom were: Presidium, Conference, Congress, General Secretariat.
The presidium was elected for one year at the Conferences and consisted of the president, first and second vice-presidents, general secretary, press and propaganda officers, communications, finance. Each nation participating in the Conference sent two to five delegates to it. Conferences were ordinary and extraordinary. The first was convened once a year by the Presidium. Extraordinary only if necessary or at the written request of 2/3 of the ordinary members. Resolutions of the Conference were adopted by the majority of votes of the members present, with the exception of issues of reorganization of the IC, changes to its charter or expulsion of members. Such questions required a 2/3 vote of ordinary members. The IS Congress was also convened by the Presidium, but it did not have such broad powers as the Conference and was “a manifest and declarative meeting, without legal or managerial competences.” The executive body of the Presidium was the General Secretariat.
On November 23, 1947, the Freedom International together with two other international anti-Bolshevik organizations (the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN) and the Promethean League of the Atlantic Charter “Prometheus”) created the Anti-Bolshevik People’s Liberation League (ALON).
Since 1952, the headquarters of the Presidium of the IF was located in Rome, and Italy became the main area of activity. Albanians, Belarusians, Bulgarians, Georgians, Chinese, Lithuanians, Poles, Romanians, Slovaks, Slovenians, Croats, Czechs, Hungarians and Ukrainians (as of 1958) were represented in the Freedom International. The head of the presidium since 1954 was the Hungarian K. Kallai, and the general secretary was the Ukrainian V. Fedoronchuk (since 1952). International Freedom organized propaganda events, press conferences, maintained contacts with government circles. It ceased operations in the early 1960s.
Documents processed and scanned by Viktor Roh.

Ukrainian Information Service (UIS)

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