‘Crocodile tears shroud truth
for those who wail over Moroz

Periodically, Canadians are
subjected to the howls of the
anti-Soviet mob .of displaced
fascists, ruthless media hacks
and assorted haters of social-
ism dug out of the dark corners
of universities.

Solzhenitsyn, now wedded to
his six million dollars became a
tarnished symbol. So recently
these defenders of “dignity” and
“rights” decided to crusade for
a convicted criminal in the
Soviet Union whose anti-Soviet
rantings are like music to their
ears.

Spewing their fabrications in
large newspaper advertisements
were the regulars, Pierre Berton
and Judy LaMarsh, along with
assorted dupes. and fascists,
weeping over the claimed “cri-
tical state of health” of one Val-
entin Moroz. Miss LaMarsh even
headed her newspaper column:
Signatures can save a man from
torture! What torture?

(There were no newspaper
ads from these people concern-
ing the outright racism in Cana-
dian prisons, or the fact that in
Ontario for instance, where two
percent of the population is In-
dian, 12% of prison inmates are
Indian. In all Canada they are
being sent to jail at four times
the rate of other Canadians. No
newspaper ads from these hu-
manitarians concern themselves
with the state of health of the
poor and Native people of Can-
ada. We didn’t find them sign-
ing ads calling for an end to the
torture and murder of the pat-
riots of Greece and Chile by
their respective fascist govern-
ments. The crimes of fascism
somehow do not seem disturb-
ing to these fake humanitarians.)

So what of this hero, Moroz?
Journalist Valery Tkachenko
sends detailed information which
bares the fraudulence of these
experts on “human rights and
fundamental freedoms.”

“Valentin Moroz is serving
his term full in accordance with
the law and in conformity with
the sentence passed by a Soviet
court of justice,’ explained the
chief legal officer (procurator)
of the Vladimir Region, who is
in charge of Prison No. 2, where
Moroz is an inmate. The re-
mainder of the story is told in
Tkachenko’s words.

* * *.

For more than 18 months
now, since August 1972, the pri-
soner has been in a cell without
any other inmates: His own re-
quest was granted by the prison
authorities with the consent of
the procurator’s office. This is
an important detail, because it
fully refutes all rumors being
spread in the West by Moroz’s
“defenders” about his “conflicts
with cell-mates.” ~

As for the prisoner’s health,
the sanitary department chief of
Prison No. 2 supplied exhaust-
ive information about it:

Moroz is healthy and has no
complaints. Between January
last year and now he applied to
doctors only three times. This
is shown by entries in his med-
ical record. Here they are:
“27.4.73 — complaints about
weakness following an inocula-
tion against gastric and intes-
tinal diseases. Examination re-
vealed no diseases. Calcium
chloride, glucose and vitamins
were prescribed.

“22.9.73 — when examined by
the chief of the sanitary depart-
ment he complained of poor
sleep and irritability. Was given
seduxen.

“1.10.73 — complained about
coughing to the therapeutist.

Cough pills were prescribed.”

So the information about Mo-
roz’s “tragic health condition”
is invented ... What is the
guilt of Valentin Moroz?

: A Repeater

Prisoner Moroz is qualified as
a recidivist. He committed for a
second time the crime he had
earlier been convicted of, In the
early 1960s, V. Moroz, a Ukra-
inian, born in 1936, was teach-
ing history at Teacher’s Training
Colleges in the Ukraine, first at
Lutsk, then at Ivano-Frankovsk.
His criminal activities began at
that time. His aim was to abol-
ish Soviet power in the Ukraine
and to separate it from the
USSR — by any means, includ-
ing force.

Moroz later described his il-
Jegal activities as follows: “I
used my business trips to Lutsk
from Ivano-Frankovsk to super-
vise student practice for other
purposes. I always brought with
me anti-Soviet literature and
distributed it among students
and people I knew. I spoke to
them about the need for the
Ukraine to secede from the
USSR and to become a bour-
geois state. In these efforts, I
said, we must count on the sup-
port of the Western countries
and in the first place the. USA,
including military support.”

Corrupted Youth

Such meetings were held re-
gularly .at the flat of lecturer D.
Ivashchenko. Students — would-
be.teachers — to whom society
was going to entrust the educa-
tion of children and teenagers
were told there by Moroz to hate
the Russians. He stirred up na-
tionalistic strife and justified the
terrorism of nationalistic gangs
from the smashed OUN under-
ground (OUN is the organiza-
tion of Ukrainian Nationalists
which collaborated with the
nazis during the second world
war and which aims at abolish-
ing the socialist system in the
Ukraine and at wresting it from

the USSR). _
» All that was immoral and,
moreover, illegal. Moroz’s ac-

tions were fully covered by art-
icle 62-1 of the penal code of the

Ukrainian Republic, which en-
visages. as punishment the de--

privation of freedom for a
period of six months to seven
years for agitation and propa-
ganda with a view to under-
mining the Soviet system and
for spreading slander vilifying it.
. Moroz was exposed by many
witnesses and by plenty of evi-
dence. The criminal nature of
the meetings at Lutsk was
proved. It was found out that
through go-betweens Moroz re-
ceived negative film of an anti-
Soviet book published in Mu-
nich — The Deduction of Rights
of the Ukraine. It was issued by
the so-called administration of
the Chief Ukrainian Libera-
tion Council (Prolog Publishing
House) which, together with all
the worst enemies of the USSR,
dreams of “freeing” the Ukra-
ine from socialism and con-
ducts subversive work.
Sentenced to Four Years
Moroz was sentenced to four
years imprisonment. In the cor-

.tective labor camp he continued

his former line. He contacted
OUN members who were serv-
ing their terms for © different
crimes, incited them to disobey
and violate the regime of_ the
corrective labor institution. At
the same time Moroz invented a
slanderous “reportage” about the
regulations in the colony and
sent it to his accomplices
abroad.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1974—PAGE 6

Court proceedings for slander
were instituted against Moroz
over his “reportage.” He, how-
ever, denied any part in that
material. The case was closed as
there was not evidence enough
to prove the accusation. -Only
later, during. the second trial
dealing with Moroz’s further
crimes, the point was proved...

On September 1, 1969 Moroz
was released and went to Ivano-
Frankovsk. He did not try to find
a job, however, but lived on the
money sent through secret chan-
nels by anti-Soviet nationalist
organizations from abroad. They
believed ‘him to be a “combat
unit” operating in the “com-
munist den.”

Moroz again set about form-
ing and hammering together an
anti-Soviet group.

Preaching Chauvinism-

He was again tried ... un-
der the same Article 62 of the
penal code of the Ukrainian Re-
public. This time, however, ac-
cording to Part 2 of the Article,
Moroz as a recidivist, was to get
a more severe punishment—im-
prisonment between three and
10 years. The court found Mo-

roz guilty and sentenced him to

nine years imprisonment.

According to reports carried
in the Ukrainian press at that
time, this decision by the court
of justice in Ivano-Frankovsk
was met with approval by the
public in the Ukraine, Partition-
ist activity and preaching of na-
tional discord and chauvinism
are deeply resented by Soviet.

people who on every occasion.

show their pride that more than
a hundred various nationalities-
live in accord in their country.

The friendship of nations, which ~

was not cultivated in pre-revo-
lutionary - Russia, has been

gained in the hard and stead-'

fast struggle of several genera-
tions of Soviet society.

It is not surprising therefore,
that encroachments on this gain
are regarded here as a blas-
phemy. In accordance with this
view Soviet law punishes such
actions with utmost severity,
placing them at the same level
as grave crimes against the per-
sonality, society and the state.

LA PAZ—The removal of San
Andres University Rector Luis
Felipe Hartmann points to con-
tinued campus repression.

General Hugo Banzer, chief of
the civilian military government,
suddenly called for Hartmann
to resign on May 11. The rector
defended University self-rule La-
tin American tradition, and did
not belong to any political party.

Banzer’s new. appointee is J.
Aguilar Zenteno, of the ultra-

-right co-ruling Socialist Phal-

ange. The move was greeted
with many protests by the stu-
dents, who backed Hartmann in
all his efforts to obtain a better
deal for the University.

“My unwavering defense of
University self-rule may explain
My removal” he declared when
he left the old building housing
the Rector’s office. It still bears
the scars of the attack by the
Tarapaca tank regiment and
U.S.-built Mustang planes at the
time of the August 1971, over-
throw of the worker-backed gov-
ernment of Juan Jose Torres.

. guayan dictatorship for its brutal repressions inflict

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the Arabs and Kurds of Iraq,” the Soviet newspaper com! }

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Uruguayan dictatorship. The WFTU also sent a tele im © lt
Waldheim, United Nations’ secretary general, asking “king peo
steps to see that human rights and the rights of we 4 the
are protected in Uruguay. The WFTU strongly aad the

of Uruguay.

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the end of 1977. : oficial gal

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are here ona mission that has paved the way for a !S
Juan Peron later this year.

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