56 years have passed since the first Conference of Enslaved Peoples of Eastern Europe was convened on the initiative of the revolutionary OUN and Asia
On November 21, 1943, in the forests of Zhytomyr Oblast, delegates of various nationalities, who represented the liberation forces of the nations fighting against the imperialists, gathered secretly, under the protection of UPA branches, to create a common front of revolutionary struggle against
invaders
The conference strongly condemned Hitler’s and Stalin’s imperialism, which deny the right of peoples to their free political and cultural development in independent national states and bring political, social and cultural enslavement to all peoples in the form of Hitler’s “new Europe” or “Bolshevik USSR”. Conference practically implemented the idea of a common front of enslaved peoples, proclaimed in December 1940 in the Manifesto of the OUN, and became a prologue to the creation of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Peoples (ABN), which, since April 1946, when the ABN Congress was held in Munich, under the constant leadership of Yaroslav Stetska, elected as the President of the ABN , and after his death in 1986, under the chairmanship of Slava Stetsko, he led a decisive and uncompromising fight against Moscow-Bolshevik imperialism, building a network in all corners of the world, rallying the progressive forces of all nations in the fight against red Moscow.
The leaders of the revolutionary OUN, Stepan Bandera and Yaroslav Stetsko, were clearly aware of the mission of Ukraine, its a place in the struggle for the freedom of peoples and people.
“Ukraine is a revolutionary problem of the world,” Yaroslav Stetsko noted, and Stepan Bandera insisted that “without the national-state liberation of Ukraine, the national-state sovereignty of Estonia, Lithuania…, Belarus, the nations and their states of the Caucasus, Turkestan cannot emerge or really be maintained… This circumstance imposes on Ukraine, on its national policy, extremely large and decisive tasks for the success of the struggle of the front of the enslaved peoples.”
That is why, in the early 1990s, ABN activities were resumed on native lands, and in November 1993 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Conference of Enslaved Peoples, the ABN Congress was held in Kyiv, which gave a new impetus and new guidelines for activity.
The current relevance of the ideas and activities of this organization is obvious. Russian imperial chauvinism, disregarding the rights of peoples and people, continues on the territory of the Russian Federation the policy of ethnocide of peoples who seek national self-determination, conducts an aggressive foreign policy, threatening the state sovereignty of neighboring young states, including Ukraine.
That is why the urgent and priority tasks for the ABN are the activation and specification of cooperation with the national liberation forces of peoples who are fighting for their independence from Moscow, primarily with Belarus and Chechnya.
It is necessary to strive more decisively and persistently to ensure that Ukrainians living in the Russian Federation meet their national needs, to provide comprehensive assistance and support to Ukrainian organizations and citizens in the post-Soviet space.
ABN should also play an important role in the organization of the international tribunal “Nuremberg-2”, which should condemn the murderous ideas and criminal practices of communism.
Recently, national movements in Mordovia, Tatarstan, Udmurtia, Yakutia and other Turkic and Finno-Ugric so-called subjects of the Russian Federation have been significantly intensified. We have been monitoring the situation in these areas for a long time, establishing contacts and stating the need to provide comprehensive support to the national forces of these nations. Here, a powerful national spirit is awakened and a great state-building potential is born.
So, marking the next anniversary of the Enslaved Peoples Conference, we should first of all look not to the past, but to the future, because the threat of Moscow imperialism and communist revenge has not gone into the past, and therefore the ideas of the ABN remain acutely relevant.
Let us remember that the will loves not the one who praises it, but the one who acquires it.
Viktor Roh,
the Head of Youth
Congress of Ukrainians
Nationalists. 1999
