What Polish Democrats May Expect
What Polish Democrats May Expect A Revealing Document on Deportation of Lithuanians jVNEZATION of the Baltic SUtes by Russia asanas forcible Sovietization and deportation of all who abject or...
...The document follows: ORDER Strictly eecret of the People's Commissar for the Interior of the Lithuanian SSR Canto*ts: About negligence in accounting concerning anti-soviet and socially alien elements...
...The odds sre in favor of a Fourth Republic with a leftward trend...
...Most Frenchmen believe that Russian hegemony in Ktirope is inevitable and the surest way to prevent future German aggression...
...j) Persons having personal contacts and maintaining correspondence abroad, with foreign legations and ronsulates, esperantists and philatelists...
...0064 Kaunas, November 28th, 1040...
...i) All citizens of foreign countries, representatives of foreign firms, employees of offices of foreign countries, former employees of legstions, firms, concessions snd stock companies of foreign countries...
...Clemenceau, 25 years ago, waa blocked in his authoritarian trend—and so will de Gaulle...
...A referent is a research worker engaged in preparing reports...
...What Polish Democrats May Expect A Revealing Document on Deportation of Lithuanians jVNEZATION of the Baltic SUtes by Russia asanas forcible Sovietization and deportation of all who abject or who have ever criticized Stalinism...
...The Communist HumaniU has a circulation of 200,000, the Socialist Hapulaire has 160,000 readers...
...A new publication which appeared this week, Sitcoms Afairs, published by the Russian Institute af tha Rand School, reprints a revealing document, showing the scop* of deportations from Lithuania in lMt...
...This is necessary in order to define the strength of At counter-revolution and to direct our operativeagencies apparatus for its digestion and liquidation...
...r) Former gendarmes, policemen, former employees of political and criminal police and of the prisonsr d) Former officers of the Czar, Petliura and other armies...
...g) Persons expelled from the Communist Party and Communist Youth for anti-party offenses...
...In connection with the great pollution of the republic of Lithuania with an anti-soviet snd socially alien element, the account concerning same acquires an especially great importance...
...ml Religionists (priests, pastors), sectarians and active religionists of religious communities...
...9 Chiefs of 1st Specdivision of NKVD of the LSSIt are to report to me every day about the progress of this order...
...1) Former workers of the Red Cross snd Polish refugees...
...The order is to be discussed in operative consultations and concrete means for its execution are are to be provided for...
...The Lithuanian Red Cross, which supplied this and ether documents, estimated that 60,000 were sent to Siberia by th* Red Army and GPU in one year, before the Nazis invaded that country and deported stitl more...
...Still charmingly Incomprehenaible...
...Tha materials cleared by the agencies-investigating apparatus remain scattered in the cabinets of operative collaborators without proper usage . . . These elements iaclude: a) All former members of anti-Soviet political parties,' Socialist Revolutionaries, Mensheviks, Socialdemocrats, Anarchists, and the like...
...control of tht press bas failed, and his effort to appoint his own men as Commissioners has also been defeated...
...lie Gaulle's only hope of personal dictatorship was to impose a government upon Franca without free democratic elections...
...The same old girl, the same *M Cert, Amidst the conflict suite anhnrt...
...In a government of 21, there are two Communists, formerly deputies, six other members of Parliament, four FFI representatives, and only six or seven de Gsullist yes-men, De Gaulle's rules controlling tha press were scorned in Paris aa "the laws of th* K*sbath" and abrogated...
...ten other papera, including three or four deGsullist sheets, hsve a total of 120,000...
...b) All former members of national chauvinistic antiSoviet parties, organizations and groups: Nationalists, Young Lithuania, Voldemarists, Populists, Christisn Democrats, members of nstionalist terroristic orgsnizstion ("Iron Wolf"), srtive members of the Riflemen's Association, the Catholic terrorist organization "White Horse...
...f) Former political bandits and volunteers of the White snd other armies...
...France will probably have a pro-Russian rather than s pro-British orientation...
...e) Former officers and members of military courts of the armies of Lithuania and Poland...
...For the operative it ia important to know how maay former policemen, White guardsmen, former offtcers, members and the like of anti-soviet politirsl parties and organizations, are in Lithuanian territory, Mai where the said element is concentrated...
...n) Former noblemen, estate owners, merchants, bankers, businessmen (who availed themselves of hired labor), shop owners, owners of hotels and restaurants...
...None of tha governing bodies in Paris is controlled by de Gaulle: the Ministry, the Council of Resistance, and the Consultative Assembly...
...Stein Sonq <w "This war is fur more Ugieml than the last one, and much mare interesting...
...The one snd only, in dispensable...
...big industries will be nationalized or under atate control...
...These facts indicate de Gaulle's waning power...
...Despite the importance of keeping all such accounts, ear operative organs have not seriously undertaken this work...
...At last we hear from Gertrude Stein, Set fro* la Franca, aad doing tae, Her head antoarhed, her villa smokeless, Aad with her, also, Alice Tobias...
...They hope for friendly relations with all three big powers, but are determined to restore the greatness of France snd to do so in close alliance with Russia...
...They have no clear conception of the real danger of Russian imperialism, snd Communist totalitarianism...
...Russian prestige is high, and tha French fear a resumption by Britsin of the old balance-of-power policy which might lead to a new war...
...k) Former employees of the departments of ministries (from referents* up...
...There must be drastic social reforms...
...Signed) Guzevicius, People's Commissor for the Interior of Lithuanian Soviet Socislist Republic...
...h) All deserters, political emigrants, re-emigrants, repatriates and contrabandista...
...Gertrude Stein, on being liberated in Southern France...
...This includes not only the old ruling class, but leaders of labor, socialist, peasant, and other democratic organiaassea...
...De Gaulle's promise of a planned economy has wide popular support...
Vol. 27 • October 1944 • No. 41
