‘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.

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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.

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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.

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