From: viznyuk@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: talk.politics.soviet
Subject: Re: Dniester Communists [or Vivat Comrade Smirnov !]
Date: 14 Sep 92 11:00:46 EDT
Followup-To: talk.politics.soviet

In article <Sep.13.21.38.02.1992.6169@pilot.njin.net>, macko@pilot.njin.net (Peter C. Macko) writes:
> viznyuk@physics.ucla.edu (Sergei Viznyuk) writes:
> 
>>In article <Sep.12.21.26.47.1992.20247@pilot.njin.net> macko@pilot.njin.net (Peter C. Macko) writes:
>>>
>>>  At least Snegur is an X-communist.  Smirnov is still a staunch
>>>communist and communists control the "Dniester Soviet Socialistic
>>>Republic".
> 
>>  Please, could you substantiate your accusations ?
>>Any facts about Smirnov being "a staunch communist" ?
> 
>   These things have been in a number of papers including the New York
> Times and numerous UPI/Clari articles.  I do however have a complete
> collection of the past month's RFE/RL (Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty)
> daily reports on line.  In fact I've written a cute little program to do 
> topic searches to save me the effort of digging out sources by hand.  So 
> here is a list of interesting articles on the "Dniester Soviet Socialist
> Republic":

Sorry, Petro. I failed to find out ANY evidence in what you wrote
below suggesting that Smirnov is a "staunch communist".
The holding the communist "conferences" in Tiraspol doesn't
qualify as such. The similar gartherings are constantly
taking place throughout x-Sovok. All other RFE/RL reports
below suggest only that Smirnov is nationalist, which
is true, of course.
S.V.

P.S.  What about my question about x-metropolit Filaret ?
Just curious.

> 
> 	RFE/RL Report: August 18, 1992
> "DNIESTER REPUBLIC" TO HOST ALL-USSR CONGRESS.  As previously
> announced at the "all-USSR" conference in May in Tiraspol, the
> communist Joint Council of Work Collectives (OSTK), the dominant
> political force in the "Dniester republic," intends to host a
> "Congress of Workers' Councils" from the entire former Soviet
> Union. The congress agenda includes the preservation of the USSR,
> the dismissal of the Gaidar government, and protests against
> privatization, DR Press reported on 14 August. The congress is
> scheduled for 10-13 September in Bendery.  (Vladimir Socor)
> 
> 	RFE/RL Report: August 24, 1992
> MOLDOVAN CEASEFIRE VIOLATIONS BLAMED ON "DNIESTER" GUARD.  The
> Joint Control Commision, made up of Moldovan, Russian, and
> "Dniester" representatives and empowered to monitor the ceasefire
> in eastern Moldova, issued on 22 August its first report since
> its establishment on 8 August.  Twenty-five people were killed
> and almost 400 injured during this period.  Most incidents were
> caused by "Dniester" guards looking for alcohol, according to the
> Commision's report as cited by AFP and Moldovapres on 22 August.
> (Vladimir Socor)
> 
> 	RFE/RL Report: August 31, 1992
> "DNIESTER REPUBLIC" TO REIMPOSE RUSSIAN SCRIPT ON "MOLDOVAN
> LANGUAGE." A draft "law on languages," currently before the
> "Dniester Republic Supreme Soviet," would reimpose the Russian
> alphabet for the "Moldovan language" (i.e.  Romanian) in schools
> there, Radio Rossii reported on 24 August.  Moldovan schools in
> that area switched to the Latin script following its
> reinstatement in Moldova in 1989, and have since resisted the
> "Dniester" authorities' orders to return the "Moldovan language"
> to the Russian alphabet.  The proposed measure would give the
> "Dniester" Russian authorities a pseudo-legal basis for enforcing
> compliance.  (Vladimir Socor, RFE/RL Inc.)
> 
> 	RFE/RL Report: September 3, 1992
> "DNIESTER REPUBLIC" CELEBRATES.  A mass rally and military parade--
> attended by Maj. Gen. Aleksandr Lebed, commander of Russia's 14th
> Army-- were held in Tiraspol on 2 September, the second anniversary
> of the proclamation of the "Dniester Soviet Socialist Republic."
> Its president, Igor Smirnov, said in his address that "the republic
> has survived only thanks to Russia and the 14th Army," RFE/RL
> correspondents reported. While taking issue with Yeltsin's stance
> on Moldova's integrity, Smirnov was also quoted as announcing that
> Russia would provide 2 billion rubles in credits to the "Dniester
> republic" for the purchase of grain and other agricultural
> commodities.  Both Smirnov and the "Dniester Guard" commander, Maj.
> Gen.  Stefan Kitsak, claimed victory over Moldova and reiterated
> that the would-be republic would build its own, professional army.
> "The Dniester republic's strategic course toward forming the
> Dniester state is not subject to change," Smirnov said as cited by
> DR Press. (Vladimir Socor, RFE/RL Inc.)
> 
> 	RFE/RL Report: September 8, 1992
> COSSACKS ON THE DNIESTER DESCRIBED AS ANTI-SEMITIC AND
> "RED-BROWN." A correspondent for Nezavisimaya gazeta who recently
> visited the theater of hostilities in eastern Moldova reported in
> the daily's issue of 1 September that anti-Semitism and
> "red-brown" views are widespread among the Russian Cossack
> volunteers fighting for the "Dniester republic," and that they can
> often be heard commenting that Jews have seized power in Russia.
> Confirming the correspondent's assessment, Valerii Shukov, a
> member of the Main Staff of the Union of Cossack Hosts of Russia
> and chief editor of its press organ Stanitsa, who opposes
> anti-Semitism, told the correspondent that many Don and Kuban
> Cossacks--who provide most of the volunteers to the "Dniester"
> cause--are "infected by anti-Semitism" and that their leadership
> is "bolshevized" and "red-brown." Another Cossack dissident cited
> by Shukov described the present Cossack leaders as a combination
> of "reds" and "black hundreds." (Vladimir Socor, RFE/RL Inc.).
> 
> 	RFE Report: September 9, 1992
> MOSCOW HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP REFUTES ATROCITY CHARGES AGAINST MOLDOVA.
>  In a report issued after a recent fact-finding trip to Moldova,
> and made available to RFE/RL, a team of the Moscow-based human
> rights society Memorial refuted allegations that the Moldovan side
> had murdered and raped teenagers, and that they had dismantled or
> damaged industrial plants there during the fighting for that city
> in June.  Those allegations have since been spread further by the
> mass media in Moscow. The team from Memorial found that the
> "Dniester republic" authorities, including the Bendery militia, had
> no evidence of such atrocities. (Vladimir Socor, RFE/RL Inc.)
> 
> 	RFE/RL Report: September 11, 1992
> "DNIESTER REPUBLIC" ESTABLISHES MINISTRIES.  The current session of
> the "Dniester Republic Supreme Soviet" is discussing the
> establishment of a full-fledged government with ministries,
> DR-Press reported in recent days from Tiraspol.  Ministries of
> defense and national security have already been established,
> Aleksandr Nevzorov's TV program "600 Seconds" reported on 9
> September. Echoing a theme often heard from Russian
> ultranationalist supporters of the "Dniester republic," Nevzorov
> hailed the progress of "this first republic free of democrats."
> (Vladimir Socor, RFE/RL Inc.)
> 
> 
> 					-PCM