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This webpage reproduces an appendix to The Nationality Problem of the Soviet Union by Roman Smal-Stocki published by The Bruce Publishing Company Milwaukee, 1952 The text is in the public domain. This page has been carefully proofread and I believe it to be free of errors. If you find a mistake though, please let me know!

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In the House of Representatives

October April 17, 1951

Mr. Kersten of Wisconsin submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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Concurrent Resolution

Whereas the American people have long accepted the basic principles set forth in the American Declaration of Independence of 1776 in the following words: "* * *that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men, — deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation don such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." and

Whereas the American people believe these principles are universal and apply to all men everywhere, at all times, and under also forms of government; and

 p463  Whereas these principles flow from certain essential truths, among which are —

That the Creator is the Author of every human being and the Source of his rights and that neither the state nor any other human agency has jurisdiction to exploit any human being or violate his rights;

That the state is a servant to mankind and not its master and may not pervert its administrative and police powers so as to make of them a weapon to violate human rights or to terrorize the people;

That there is a brotherhood of all men but only under the Fatherhood of God; and

Whereas communism wears a humanitarian cloak and poses as the messiah of social justice but in reality has given rise to the most reactionary regime of our time based on barbarism and slavery as a result of its immoral doctrine founded in malice setting man against man, class against class, and all men against God; and

Whereas communism thrusts itself beyond civil government and political philosophy, claiming the whole man, denying all spiritual values, denying his inalienable rights, and seeking to transform all human beings created by God in His Image into soulless biological units, to be fitted into a military and economic machine designed for world revolution; and

What communism, although not native to Russia, was adopted by a small, ruthless Bolshevik minority which by treachery, deceit, brutal force, and terror subverted and destroyed the freedom gained by the Russian people in their democratic revolution of February 1917; and

Whereas imperialist communism, from the base of its dictator­ship  p464 in Russia proper, did later occupy by brutal military aggression the proclaimed Democratic National Republics of the independent Ukrainian, Byelo-Russian, Kuban Cossack, Georgian, Armenian, Azerbaijanian, North Caucasian, Finno-Karelian, Tatar, and Turkestanian peoples; and

Whereas imperialist communism has in crass disregard of the wills of these peoples enforced on them the unnatural structure of the Soviet Union, as later on the Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Moldavian, West and Carpatho-Ukrainian peoples, and tyrannizes all of the afore-mentioned peoples, together with the Bashkirs, Uzbeks, Kirgizes, Buryat Mongols, Chuvashes, Dagestans,º Kabardinians, Komis, Maris, Mordovians, North Osetians, Tatars (Volga), Udmurts, Yakuts, Abkhazes, and Kara-Kalpaks, under a regime of colonialism and inhuman exploitation; and

Whereas imperialist communism, during and after World War II, applied genocide on the peoples rebelling against its dictator­ship and annihilated the Volga German Republic, the Crimean Tatar Republic, the Chechen Republic and the"autonomous Region of Karachev," scattering their population over the Asiatic Arctic; and

Whereas imperialist communism is systematically applying to all the non‑Russian nationalities, both within the Soviet Union and without the Soviet Union, Stalin's Russification program, aiming at the destruction of all national organisms and their cultural peculiarities by creating one Soviet nationality, with one Soviet language and one Soviet culture; and

Whereas communism after consolidating its imperialist gains succeeded until recently by means of false propaganda, deceit, police-state methods, be hermetically sealed frontiers, in keeping the non‑Soviet world largely ignorant of the plight  p465 of these non‑Russian peoples within the Soviet Union and, in turn, keeping the peoples within the suoi in ignorance of the true nature of conditions existing outside its borders and particularly of conditions in the democratic world; and

Whereas communism has taken the lives of itens of millions of human beings in the Soviet Union (notably the liquidation of about five million Ukrainian peasants in 1932‑1933 and the Lidice-like massacre of Ukrainians in Vinnitsia in 1937‑1938) including a vast number of the members of its own armed forces (other than in the late war), and has enslaved the peoples —

by robbing them of their farm stone transforming them into landless agricultural robots;

by chaining worker to their factories and transforming them into homeless industrial robots;

by depriving intellectuals of freedom of creative work and thought and transforming them into voiceless ideological robots;

by submitting vast numbers from all classes, both men and women, old and young, workers (industrial and white collar), peasants, and intellectuals, to the subhuman conditions of concentration camps in uninhabitable areas and transforming them into a nameless host of more than fifteen million state slaves;

by the uprooting and dispersal of minority groups;

by practi­cing genocide upon national groups, including the Jewish population, within the Soviet Union and making the Soviet Union a burial ground of nations; and

Whereas communism is in the process of destroying the institution of the family in the Soviet Union by an enforced collective way of life, by inordinate control and indoctrination of  p466 the children, and by setting members of the same farm against one another through fear and terror; and

Whereas communism is in the process of destroying religion in the Soviet Union by fostering atheism, by ridiculing and persecuting the sincere religious expression of the people, by perverting religious injustices in the hearts of the young, by murdering the representatives of religion, by destruction of places of worship and the abolition of religious institutions (as the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the 1920's and the Ukrainian Catholic Church in 1945), by tolerating only religious services subservient to the state, and by deifying the leader of the Red regime; and

Whereas imperialist communism has by force and deceit conscripted into the Soviet Army overwhelming numbers of peace-loving non‑Russian peasants, workers, and intellectuals whose genuine anticommunist and anti-imperialist sentiments have been amply demonstrated by numerous acts of self-determination, revolts, and resistances (such as: 1918‑1920 — the courageous defense of the independent Ukrainian National Republic against Trotsky's Red Army; 1926 — the golden revolt for independence; 1928‑1930 — the upsurge of Ukrainian"Titoism" led by Skripnik and others 1937 — the plan to overthrow the imperialist Communist regime led by Marshal Tukhachevsky, General Yakir, Colonels Prymakiv and Kryvoruchko; 1938 — the spontaneous creation of the independent Carpatho-Ukraine; 1941 — the heralded declarations of Ukrainian independence in both Lviv and Kiev at the outbreak or Red‑Nazi conflict; 1941‑1942 — the willful mass surrender of over two million Soviet Ukrainian troops to fight for the independence of their homeland; 1943‑present — the extensive under­ground resistance  p467 of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, cooperating with the Lithuanian, Slovak, and Polish undergrounds, against the Nazi invaders and now against the Communist imperialists, achieving a deep infiltration into the multinational Soviet Army); and

Whereas communism violent making false and appealing promises, in an atmosphere of ideological black‑out in the Soviet Union, perverts the patriotic fervor of a certain number of young idealists, who have a genuine desire to serve their respective peoples, and exploits it for an antihuman conspiracy; and

What communism in order to extend still further its tyranny concentrates its efforts on promoting artificial hostile feelings between the fundamentally and peace-loving peoples within the Soviet Union and the people of the United States and of other free nations whose basic aspirations as human beings are identical, and who have no real conflicting interests; and

What imperialist communism not satisfied with the early subjugation and exploitation of these millions of people in the Soviet Union has already forced Marxist-Stalinist tyranny on the more recently free and independent nations of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Albania, Czecho­slovakia, and initially Yugoslavia which still follows the Communist ideology, and in the words of the United States Supreme Court Justice Jackson in the recent case of American Communications Association versus Douds (339 U. S. at page 429), "The international police state has crept over Eastern Europe by deception, coercion, coup d'état, and terrorism and assassination."; and communism has conquered China and is in the process of attempting to subjugate Korea, Tibet, Viet Nam and Malaya, and seeks eventually to enslave free men everywhere with the openly proofread aim of establishing the World Soviet Union; and

 p468  Whereas agreements made by any one of remoter of the free nations with Communist regime that now enslaves the peoples within the Soviet Union strengthen materially and morally the position of said regime, weaken the resistance to Communist tyranny, and dim the hopes of these peoples liberation; such agreements with said regime being used by it only to its advantage for the purposes of accumulating additional strength and to the disadvantage of every otter country seeking honorably to compose differences with it; it being one of the prime techniques of communism to disregard truth and honor and to ignore agreements whenever opportune; and

Whereas, in contrast to the recursion fifth columns that operate in the free countries of the world to enslave them to imperialistic communism, there exists among these non‑Russian peoples, who constitute about one‑half of the population of the Soviet Union, an active and extensive under­ground system led by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which, if offered the encouragement and positive aid of the free peoples of the world, I will enable them to liberate themselves and to overthrow the imperialist Communist tyranny and help place mankind on the path of peace instead of plug it into the holocaust of a third world war; and

Whereas past tragic mistakes in the policies of certain of the free nations, including that of the United States, toward the Communist regime in the Soviet Union and a failure fully to understand the true nature, extent, and the enormity of its aggressive designs have substantially contributed toward pla­cing said Communist regime in a position where it now is a clear and present danger to world peace and the free progress of mankind compelling the United States and other  p469 free nations again to undertake a vast program of armament expenditures; and

Whereas, while we rearm with reluctance and would prefer to devote our energies to peace, we are determined to defend our freedom; and

Whereas rearmament alone coupled with an attempt to compose differences with the Communist regime by treaties and agreements leaving undisturbed said regime and its present enormous conquests of aggression will, over a period of years, place a crushing burden of armaments upon the free world that eventually could well, of itself, destroy, freedom; and such agreements and treaties would tend to stabilize such regime in its conquests and give a benediction to a way of life that has declared war on all human nature under its control; and

What the world cannot long continue to exist half slave and half free; Now, therefore, be it

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