GENOCIDE ON THE BALTIC
Tarulis, Dr. Albert N.
Genocide on the Baltic Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania Decimated by Red Occupation By Dr. Albert N. Tarulis THE INDEPENDENCE which Lithuania, Latvia and Est noma enjoyed between'1918 and 1940 md...
...By now the MVD's eagle eye has surely identified the two persons standing closest to Lenin as Stalin 4and—Trotsky...
...The Soviet Union would certainly refuse to discuss such a problem or try to block any practical solution...
...These elections, based on a single list of candidates and containing only the exact number of deputies to be elected, were a tragicomedy typical of all Soviet satellites Moreover, the exact voting results, by a curious "mistake" on the part of the Soviet information service in London, were published there twenty-four hours before the polls closed...
...THE UNITED STATES, Great Britain rnd France have never recognized the validity of the bogus elections of 1940...
...4 (1949), you reproduce a picture of "V...
...All that Einstein did was to "confirm brilliantly" the theories "projected" by that universal genius, Lenin...
...In No...
...Department of Epithets...
...Stalin's Baltic republics were overcome in 1941 by the Nazis, who occupied them for more than three years But in 1944 the Russians returned and i epumed the illegal status quo of 1940...
...Even theU.S.S.R...
...Albert N. Tarulis THE INDEPENDENCE which Lithuania, Latvia and Est noma enjoyed between'1918 and 1940 md which had resulted in great economic and cultural progress —¦ was <»nded when Soviet troops overran Baltic frontiers during June 15 18, 1940...
...I. Lenin proclaiming Soviet power" in 1917...
...Since Baltic "kulaks" are not permitted to join the collectives, and cannot find work elsewhere, they are being deported en masse to slave labor camps in Russia^ * * * 3. THE CLERGY, always strong in the Baltic countries, represents a source of groat irritation to Russian aims...
...Tarulis, a native of Lithuania, Is a professor at tha Carnegie Institute of Technology...
...and carriers of "bourgeois nationalism...
...The UN Secretary General's office acknowledged receipt of this information, but no action was ever taken...
...This was also the case with the third similar appeal, submitted to^ the UN President, Mr...
...As in other satellite areas, therefore, religious persecution is on the increase, despite propaganda to the contrary dished out to Americans by the U.S.S.R...
...La'tvia- total ol able-bodied men decreased by 80 percent...
...Data submitted to the UN brefugee Bait leaders on November 24^, 1947, summed up the situation as follows: Lithuania—over 200.000 people eliminated in various ways...
...This invasion was motivated by Russia's need for "selfprotection" against an alleged Baltic military alliance, and was in violation ¦ )f mutual non-aggression pacts between Russia and the three Baltic states...
...Herbert Evatt, on May 12, 1949 in which Baltic representatives requested the UN to take immediate action in behalf of the persecuted Baltic people...
...He writes for several periodicals here and abroad, and is a frequent New Lradrr contributor...
...BALTIC REFUGEE LEADERS meeting at Stuttgart have reported, according to the American Military Government organ in Germany, Die Netie Zeitung, that one million Lithuanians, Latvians and Esthonians have been either executed or deported since 1940...
...1. Russia cannot count on the loyalty of the Baltic people in case of war...
...President Truman on September 16...
...The Moscow Ticker AN ARTICLE in the official Moscow magazine, Novyi Mir • (1949, No...
...Several reasons may be mentioned...
...Information Bulletin admits that in a certain diocese only 11 out of 192 churches now remain...
...Ogoniok also contains an article demonstrating that Einstein's theory of relativity was discovered by a Russian, P. N. Lebedev, in 1900...
...Unfortunately, further delay in dealing with that problem maybe a death sentence to the Baltic na•ious...
...ft all went into compiling and making up the report...
...Recalling the fate of millions of Ukrainian peasants at that time, it is not hard to imagine what is happening to their Baltic counterparts...
...Allan Dans...
...has been unable to render...
...According to a letter addressed to the Pope by Lithuanian Catholics, priests are (a) forbidden to teach in churches or elsewhere...
...Terror against the Baits now is more intense...
...Incidentally the U.S...
...The justice of this stand has been tacitly acknowledged by Russia's failure to insist that her Lithuanian, Latvian or Esthonian "republics" be lepresented at international conferc nces...
...disapproval of conditions in the Baltic states...
...Information Bulletin...
...On October 20, 1948, another report to the UN added th\t Bait women whose husbands were' wandering about Europe as DP's were being forced to marry immigrants from the Soviet Union, who also took over properties belonging to the missing husbands...
...n accordance with the terms of the Stalin-Hitler pact...
...10) as "a cross between a rabid dog and a thistle...
...delegate has never brought the matter to the attention of the UN Assembly...
...c) constantly under surveillance by spies, who report their every word and act...
...This is by no means speaking riguratlvcly...
...As for Stalin, he was kind enough to agree to the humble : equest of Baltic Communists to haveLithuania, Latvia and Esthonia incorporated into the U.S.S.R...
...COMMUNISM HAS NEVER been popular among the Baltic states...
...Despite all appeals and protests, extermination is being pursued on a vast scale, indicating the determination of the U.S.S.R...
...Because they have refused to give up then holdings to Soviet collectivizes, these farmers have been attacked as "kulaks," "enemies of the working class," ."wreckers of socialist reconstruction...
...Shades of Hitler...
...It is imperative, therefore, that the State Department treat with those Bait leaders who have managed to elude the clutches of Russia, and at once bring the issue—which in bald language involves nothing less than genocide—before the United Nations...
...There.is now no doubt that the Soviets are anxious to exterminate the Baltic people...
...A recent addition to the list: a description of Walter Lippman (Krokodil, 1949, No...
...But it is still not too late to do so and undoubtedly American espousal of the cause of tyrannized Baits would awaken considerable response...
...t0 annihilate the Baltic peoples...
...Unhappily, it is possible that soon there will be no Baltic representatives for Mr...
...b) forbidden to refute attacks upon the church...
...Baltic leaders are not exaggerating when they declare, ss they did in thejr "last appeal to the UN, mat, \ * "Continuation of the Soviet occnpation menaces the very existence of the Baltic nations...
...A team of officials checking th« financial statements:, "You write here that you had a pro* tor IMS...
...1948, continued U.S...
...Esthonia — Russian immigrants exceeded total number of Esthonians...
...For this reason, the entira coastline has/ been evacuated of Baits and replaced with more or less trustworthy Russians...
...Krokodil, 1MB, No...
...or the legality of the Soviet occupation f-ince...
...This is the self-admitted basis upon •vhich Russia claims the right to control the armed forces, finances, transportation, and other functions of Lithuania, Latvia and Esthonia today...
...Collectivization' is being enforced with the same brutality as it was in the Ukraine in the late 1920's...
...So far so good...
...Thus the restoration of Baltic independence is not likely to take place in 'he near future...
...Memo to the Editor of Oowitolc: Comrade, we caught you with your deviations down—or is it that you are too young to remember the face...
...In Lithuania alone over 400 Catholic clergymen hove been executed or deported to Siberia, Of eight bishops in 1944, only one was known to be alive in 1948...
...Manpower losses sustained by the three Baltic countries during the first year of Soviet occupation, as reported by the Baltic Red Cross in Geneva, totalled nearly 2OQ,OO0, or about 3 percent of the entire population...
...Where is it...
...Deportations were originally on a small scale, but in 1948 they became a mass operation...
...A STATEMENT on February 2, 1949, refused "to discuss with any nations any matters which are of direct concern to other nations, without participation of representatives of those nations . . ," This may be considered to be an indication that the U.S...
...This factor underlies the persistent Soviet drive to obliterate Lithuania, Latvia and Esthonia as nations...
...It's getting hard to invent new epithets against Western writers and journalists...
...Yet what Stalin and his henchmen need is a stern warning that they are responsible for the extermination of entire peoples and that some day they will be called to account...
...is determined not to recognize the Soviet fait accompli in the Baltic states, either...
...Churchill points out in his book, The Gathering Storm, that they have always been "the most vehemently anti-Bolshevist regions in Europe...
...1), declares that there can be no "private truths": "In our country there is only one truth —State truth...
...DEAN ACHE SON, IN...
...Immediately Baltic Soviet stooges, obediently executing Moscow's orders, organized elections to so-called "peoples parliaments...
...Acheson to consult with at all, for there wull be no Lithuanian, Latvian or Esthonian nations left to be represented by anyone...
...and (d) subjected to pressures of all sorts, Including blackmail, to become intelligence agents...
...The first tasks of the new "parliaments" were to adopt consttutions patterned after that of the Soviet Union, and to request Stalin to accept three v brand-new republics into the U.S.S.R In the case of Lithuania, everything •vas accomplished by a joint vote ot acclamation registered by a queer combination of deputies, special guests and secret police...
...2. Fanners, who constitute the largest occupation grouping, are generally violent opponents of Sovietization...
...Although Baits deeply appreciate such sentiments, they feel that their liberation from the Soviet yoke cannot come without outside help, which so far the U.S.A...
Vol. 32 • June 1949 • No. 24
