In connection with the creation of the “Council for the Liberation of the Nations of Russia”, the Central Committee of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations hereby informs:
1. There are no “peoples of Russia” in the Soviet Union. There is only one Russian people within the borders of its ethnographic territory and non-Russian nations: Estonians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Turkestans, Cossacks, Idel-Urals, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Caucasians, Siberians and other peoples. These nations do not live on Russian territory, only each within its own ethnographic borders.
These non-Russian peoples are enslaved by the power of Russian imperialism. They are still fighting for their freedom and state independence against Moscow imperialism in its current form of Bolshevism.
2. The definition of “peoples of Russia” is a characteristic of long-standing Russian imperialism and means an insult to the feelings of non-Russian peoples. It also serves the conscious deceit of the Western world and is in line with the idea of preserving the violent state system, the Soviet Union.
3. The attempt by Russian emigrants to speak on behalf of these peoples is an abuse of the rights of non-Russian nations, who have their own liberation organizations authorized to represent them.
4. All Russian émigré organizations included in the “Soviet of the Liberation of the Nations of Russia” cannot become the intercession of non-Russian peoples, even if they have misguided or bought people in it. Only members of national liberation organizations have the real right to speak on behalf of their homelands. What is important is not the liberation of the non-existent “peoples of Russia”, but the liberation of the peoples from their enslaver, from Russia, and the ruthless struggle against all attempts to preserve the Russian prison of nations in every form.
5. The nations enslaved by Russia, united in the ABN, are fighting for the collapse of the Russian prison of nations of every kind and form (totalitarian and democratic, republican and tsarist )— and for independent democratic national states within the ethnographic borders of each people and resolutely reject any cooperation with Russian imperialists of various stripes.
They will continue their struggle regardless of the attitude of Western circles towards their ideals.
24 August 1951.
Central Committee of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations
Архів ОУН. - Бібліотека. - Газети. - Сурма. - 1951. - Жовтень. - С.14
