Byelorussia – a Colony of Moscow

But taking into account the 20 per cent of the total population who do not declare their nationality (to retain their privileges), the Russian people actually constitute only 103 million of the total population of the USSR. And taking into account the more than 100 million people of non-Russian nationality in the USSR, it can be seen that Russians are in the minority, and repress some 140 million people of non- Russian nationality who constitute the majority of the total population of the USSR.

Considering that the majority of the population is repressed and opposes the Russian regime, Russian imperialism rests on a very insecure foundation, and is only able to maintain its dictatorship over the oppressed peoples by terror and coercion.

The Byelorussian people — some 20 million — renewed their national independence in 1944, which was confirmed by the Second all-Byelorussian Congress in Minsk. Byelorussians are conscious of the fact that Moscow is abusing the legal rights of our people through its colonial policies, is exhausting and destroying the national heritage and human potential of our people.

Moscow with its so-called Marxist ideology and politics is enforcing an anti-intellectual, anti-religious and antinational culture, through which Moscow is depriving Byelorussia of its soul, destroying its culture and economy, hoping to assimilate the Byelorussian people into the so-called “New Soviet (Russian) People”.

Byelorussian people have always opposed and fought against this repression, primarily in the spheres of civilization and culture, in a long, difficult and intense battle. A new generation of Byelorussian poets, authors, scientists has not only opposed denationalization and the anti-religious policy of the ruling Communist Party, but is also actively protecting the fundamental interests of the Byelorussian people, and this resistance to Moscow’s colonial occupation is constantly and steadily increasing.

In this active fight for liberation the Byelorussian and Ukrainian peoples, both members of the United Nations, play an outstanding role amongst the peoples of the world. Ironically enough the so-called representatives of the Byelorussian and Ukrainian peoples at the United Nations discussing the rights of man in Africa, South America and the far East, are not entitled to discuss the rights of their own suppressed peoples. The Helsinki Agreement clearly demonstrates and reinforces Russian domination over the Byelorussian and Ukrainian peoples.

Among the 35 participating states of Helsinki, very small countries, such as Liechtenstein, with 22,000 inhabitants, Monaco with 25,000 inhabitants, were represented, but Byelorussia with a population of 10 million (according to Soviet statistics) and Ukraine with a population of 50 million (also according to Soviet statistics) were not represented, even though they are members of the UN. This is surely unjust and constitutes a blatant discrimination against and abuse of some nations and their human rights.

As free representatives of Byelorussia we take part in international conferences of the World Anti-Communist League (WACL), the European Freedom Council (EFC), the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations. (ABN), European Human Rights Conferences, and others whose aim is to show the following to the Free World:

Byelorussia is a colony of Moscow; the representatives of the BSSR at the UN are not representing the Byelorussian people, but Moscow, which is constantly denied by the Russian press both at home and abroad in fact claiming that in 1974 the BSSR was represented at 100 international sessions and conferences arranged by 58 international organizations. (Voice of Home, July 1975).

A clear example of Moscow’s colonial policy and paradoxical behaviour towards nations and human rights is its refusal to admit South Korea into the UN. For Byelorussia Mr. Borysi Kudrazou argued: the government of South Korea is a regime of puppets and does not represent anyone. Yet Moscow, by allowing Byelorussia and Ukraine to be members of the UN, thereby formally acknowledging the independence of these states, did not allow these same two states to participate at Helsinki. Thus Moscow’s colonial policies and power over the fate of its satellite states were clearly demonstrated.

Is it possible to solve problems of world security and cooperation while 60 million people in Europe, including Byelorussians and Ukrainians, inhabitants of apparently independent states, are enslaved?

As free representatives of the Byelorussian people we declare:

1. As long as Moscow continues to exploit the territorial, economic and human potential of the subjugated peoples;

2. As long as the Bolshevik fifth column continues to infiltrate and invade Free Europe;

3. As long as the Free West continues to give economic support to the USSR;

4. As long as the people suppressed by Moscow do not gain their national independence;

so long will the Bolshevik danger not only hover like the sword of Damocles over the whole of Free Europe, but also over the whole of the Free World.

Freedom and liberty, on which the security and co-operation of Europe depend, are indivisible, not only in theory, but also in reality. The painful reality under the Red regime of Moscow and the Bolshevik system is the enslavement of peoples.

Col. D. Kosmovicz (Byelorussia)