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At the close of the World
Congress of Peace Forces, held
in Moscow, Oct. 25-29, the Con-
gress issued a communique sum-

ming up its work. With the
Communique were statements
from the 14 Commissions which
met during the Congress. We
present here the statements
from the Commissions on (a)
Cooperation Between Inter-Gov-
ernmental and Non-Governmen-
tal Organizations and (b) Pro-
tection of the Environment.

Mankind is ever more strongly
conscious of the dangers stem-
ming from the deterioration and
destruction of the environment.
The peoples of the world have a
vital stake in protecting the re-
sources of the earth, our com-
mon home. And this requires ac-
tive and multilateral interna-
tional cooperation. and rational
use of natural resources. A per-
severing and consistent drive to
re-deploy part of the means now

ecological balance, the living
and working conditions of all
human beings, should be an or-
ganic part of these efforts.

It is necessary to work for the
elimination of the extremely
dangerous pollution of man’s en-
vironment resulting from nu-
clear testing and’ the discharge
of radioactive and toxic waste in
rivers, seas and oceans.

COOPERATION BETWEEN
GOVERNMENTAL AND
NON-GOVERNMENTAL
ORGANIZATIONS

It is especially important that
the efforts now being taken on
the government level to estab-
lish the principles of peaceful
coexistence, on the non-govern-
mental level to consolidate the
detente and give greater depth
to cooperation ‘between various
peace forces should also be con-
tinued in more vigorous co-

such as the UN, and regional as
the Organization of African
Unity, the Arab League, etc., on
the one hand, and international
non-governmental organizations,
on the other.

Cooperation between the
two groups of international or-
ganizations is one of the ways
in which public opinion can par-
ticipate in world affairs, which
is of particular importance in
the light of the objectively in-
creasing role of peace forces,
which are united into different
movements and organizations
concerned with the fate of~the
world.

Non-governmental _ organiza-
tions can contribute to the ef-
forts of intergovernmental or-
ganizations to solve the most
important international political
problems, such as settlement of
international conflicts, setting
up of security systems, promo-
tion of disarmament, the
struggle against colonialism and
racism, the problems of eco-

and the conservation of the na-
tural environment, and imple-

“menting decisions of intergoy-

ernmental organizations by ex-
pressing as well as enlightening
public opinion in support of the
said function of UN and other
international organizations.

To be able to fulfil this pur-
pose, the NGOs—both national
and international—should toge-
ther study and define areas of
common interest and action, es-
pecially in relation to the UN
system.

spent on armament for measures
protecting and improving the

mental organizations,

operation between intergovern-
global,

nomic and social development

ts tanks ent
nthe spring of 1945,

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anish ... The
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bas abe to print ex-
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Fal st Tribune and the
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€n the special

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fe shite is obvious —
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P The, ot are’ frightening
stra are clutching at

f ing to halt the re-

. detec son and the pro-
th: Mte, It is not acci-
at the B Iti Cl

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the fous tensions be-
trite > and the West
ei. at the West must
nthe Itself if attempts
fies With «nomic and cul-
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4 the nd, as for the
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ering the Czechoslovakian city ef Morawska

scribes treason and _ traitors, .

from the most petty ones—
Gestapo police informers — to
general Vlasov.

Slanderous Allegations
Solzhenitsyn’s claim that Vla-

sov’s divisions drove the Ger-
mans out of Prague in 1945 has
drawn bitter criticism from Vac-
lav David, a member of the
Czechoslovak Communist Party
and vice-president of the Federal
Assembly of - Czechoslovakia.
David lived through those days
in Prague and was a communist
representative of the Czech Na-
tional Council’s Military Com-
mission.

“Solzhenitsyn’s slanderous al-
legations only evoke the indig-
nation of every Czechoslovak
citizen who lived through the
heroic Prague uprising,’ David

charges. “On May 5, 1945, the

people of Prague rose in rebel-
lion against the nazi invaders
and began streetfighting. Re-
sponding to their appeal, broad-
cast over Radio Prague, the So-
viet Army, commanded by Gen-
eral Konev, sped from Berlin
and Dresden to save embattled
Prague.

Agreement with Nazis
~ “On May 6, units of the so-

called army. of General Vlasov —

appeared in areas to the south
and southeast of the city. Docu-
ments captured from the Ger-
man army showed that they at
once reached agreement on a
truce with Vlasov’s forces. The
British author, G. Bolton, writes
that Vlasov’s purpose was to es-
cape retribution from the Red
Army. As soon as it became

clear to him that the Americans
would not come to Prague’s as-
sistance, his forces began to re-
treat toward the U.S. positions.
“The fast approaching victory
over fascism placed the Vlasov
gangs in a position where they
would soon’ have to answer for
their crimes and their hope was
the Americans would save them
as fighters’. against . Hitler’s
troops in the Prague uprising.
Archive materials also show that
during the Prague fighting Vla-
sov wanted to achieve recogni-
iton for his battle ‘‘against Bol-
shevism”. They aimed at cap-
turing the radio station then in
the hands of the rebels and use
it for their own broadcast. The
people knew who these traitors
were— criminal scum used by
the nazis in their war against
the USSR—employed in tor-
turing war prisoners at camps
where they were used as guards.

Real Liberators

“The attitude of the Czecho-
slovak revolutionary forces to
these offers of ‘assistance’ from
Vlasov was negative. Only indi-
vidual reactionary elements
from among the officers of the
former Czechoslovak army and
some members of the Czech Na-
tional Council attempted to co-
operate .with them. They were
brought together by their mu-
tual hatred of the Soviet Army
and the revolutionary forces in
Czechoslovakia. On May 7 Radio
Prague announced that the Na-
tional Council categorically dis-
associated itself from Vlasov’s
forces who disappeared from the
city on the same day and
headed West. The people of
Prague continued their struggle

- against nazi troops until May 9

when the’ Red- Army made its
way into the city. Over 140,000
Soviet soldiers died in the bat-
tles to liberate Czechoslovakia.”

David proudly points out that
the people of Czechoslovakia
hold as very dear to them the
role of the Red Army which ful-
filled to the letter the Czecho-
slovak-USSR Treaty of Alliance
signed in December 1943. He
calls Solzhenitsyn’s claim that
Vlasov’s divisions _ liberated
Prague a “pitiful lie’.

The Soviet press has also

reacted to claims in Gulag
Archipelago that the battle of
Stalingrad was won by punish-
ment battalions (“the cement
of the foundations of the battle
of Stalingrad” says the author).

Soviet Heroes

“For what readers is this
lampoon intended?” they ask.
“Ts it for Sergeant Pavlov who,
with a handful of men defended
the house near the Volga for
weeks? The nazis lost more men
at the approaches to this house
than in taking Paris—and they
did not take the house.

“Ts it for the former soldiers
of General, now Marshall Chui-
kov? Pressed literally to the
edge of the Volga, they stopped
the enemy from reaching the
river.

“Or for the workers and en-
gineers of the Urals city of
Chelyabinsk which during the
war was lovingly called ‘Tanko-

grad’? Here the famous T-34

tank was produced which closed
the ring around the German
armies at Stalingrad.

Lines o}

f German prisoners captured at the battle of Stalingrad.

Ws tierce hatred for everything Soviet

“To write anything like that
means not only to sully the
memory of the dead, not only to
scoff at the living, but to make
oneself the object of ridicule and
shame.”

Soviet writers argue that
“such is the logic of moral de-
gradation, such is the measure
of spiritual poverty” of this man
who has lost all touch with the
reality of Soviet society. In his
time, Lenin described with
scathing sarcasm the breed of
those politicians (and Solzheni-
tsyn is a politician) who grovel-
led before the capitalist world:

“All your talk about freedom
and democracy is sheer claptrap,
parrot phrases, fashionable
twaddle, or hypocrisy. It is just
a painted signboard. And you
yourselves are white — sepul-
chures. You are mean-spirited
boors and your education, cul-
ture and enlightenment are only
a species of thoroughgoing pro-
stitution. For you are selling
your souls. And you are selling
them not through need but for
love of the thing...”

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