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Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 22:04:19 EDT

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    DATE(YYYY/MM/DD): 1992/08/19
    TITLE: A year without them
    BY:MN
    SUBJECTS: 22
    SECTION: 8
    
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    SUMMARY: Friends and relatives of the defenders of Russia's White
             House who were killed speak out.
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         A year without them
         Friends and  relatives of those who died while defending Russia's
    White House speak out:
         Sergei Churin, a friend of Dmitry Komar:
         Dima's parents  are now  in  Germany.  Having  read  about  their
    tragedy, a family from West Berlin invited them.
         After the  coup, the  government  gave  lavish  promises  to  the
    families of  the victims.  But Dima's family didn't get anything, even
    the promised watches with Yeltsin's picture. The parcels sent from the
    US for  the victims  were received  by the  people who had spent those
    days in  their offices.  As for  the money  collected  by  the  people
    standing with  joined hands,  we learned about it only this spring and
    got it with great difficulty.
         Three months  later, the Moscow Procurator's Office dismissed the
    case due  to the  absence of corpus delicti. Only recently, a writ was
    received from  the Procurator's  Office of  Russia, saying that action
    was brought up again.
         I have never doubted the value of what I defended. My grandfather
    was shot  in 1937.  But Dima's family, as far as I know, are sceptical
    about all that is happening.
         The defenders  of the  White House  got together in Gorky Park on
    August 2. When communists showed up, we hustled them out of the gates.
    It is  quite possible,  though, that  had democrats  appeared at  that
    critical moment  they would  have suffered  the  same  fate.  But  the
    trouble is  that today it is hard to tell a communist from a democrat.
    We were very naive to think we knew for sure who's who.
         Marina Krichevskaya, sister of Ilya Krichevsky:
         The Oberig Publishers of Kiev have put out an anthology of Ilya's
    verses, entitled:  "Kransnye Besy"  (Red Demons).  It will  be on sale
    during the  "Vivat, Russia"  festivities though  this name confuses me
    very much.  It is  too early  to shout  "Vivat". I am afraid that last
    year's victims may have died in vain.
         Although the  decree on  conferring upon  the young  victims  the
    title of  Heroes of  the Soviet Union was signed by Mikhail Gorbachev,
    we received  the Gold  Star only  at the end of April. It was quite by
    chance. In  April, the  American People to People organization invited
    the relatives  of victims to the USA. When it was time to leave, Boris
    Yeltsin's adviser  Valery Vorontsov,  learned from  us that the awards
    had not  been delivered. The trip was put off for a month during which
    Alexander Rutskoi  presented the  Gold Stars of Heroes of the now non-
    existent Soviet Union.
         Sofia Petrovna  and Alexander  Arsentievich, parents  of Vladimir
    Usov:
         We are  trying not  to meet with journalists because nothing will
    revive our  only son. The only thing that helps us to live is that the
    democratic government  in Russia  shall win  despite anything. We also
    think about  our grandchild,  Volodya's daughter,  who  will  soon  be
    sixteen. She and her mother got a new flat recently. There is no other
    news... Yes,  there is  one more  point. The  Japanese asked  for  our
    consent to award their best economist with a prize named after Volodya
    Usov. Another  prize named  after Dima  Komar would  go to  their best
    worker, and  the prize named after Ilya Krichevsky would be awarded to
    the best  architect. In  America, we addressed pupils in many schools,
    telling them  about our  sons. But  in our  country nobody seems to be
    interested in this -- no school has invited us.
         
         
         
         
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Cybercasting Corporation.  For more information, send-email to 
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