Viikkosanomat, July 28, 1986

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One can alvvays count on
Richard Perle the US assistant
Secretary of Defence for interna-tional
security toenthuse over
the most bellicose aspects of
American foreign policy Not
long ago he made some reveal-in- g observations concerning US
attitudes to its NATO ally Turkey
US relations wilh that country Mr Perle
said are "the largest most productive
and least understood programme inSou-ther- n
Lurope" He was referring to Tur-key
's maintanance of the largest military
force of any NATO ally and it's 1 00 per
cent increase in military spending during
tlie Iast 14 years
The military build-u-p in Turkey rarely
makes headline news yet US military
sources quoted in last Octobers Bulletin
ofAtornic Scicntists (BAS) state that the
nuclear vveapon programme in Turkey
"is in an aggressive grovvth stage" The
Bulletin aso quotes a May 1983 article in
Air Force Magazine that says Turkey will
"resume its role as a NATO alert base"
This means aircraft loaded vvith nuclear
bombs vvill be placed on alert ready to
attack targets in the USSR
Of the 500 nuclear vvarheads
deployed by the US in Turkey 300 are on
bombs for aircraft and are stored at four
Turkish bases A fifth base at Incirlik is a
US combat base the most forvvard
deployed base for US tactical forces in
the Middle East According to the BAS:
"Operations at Incirlik have increased sig-nifican- tly
since the signing of the 1980
Defence and Economic Cooperation
Agreement betvveen the United States
and Turkey allovving an increase in the
number of aircraft assigned to Incirlik
from 18 to 36"
Extradition Babenko
Soviet of
of and Slovyansk
During of
their of killed
Germany hard active
iiiiian blood water
The degeneration of Babenko and
that matter
nazi stooges had long be-for- e
the var Babenko
service in the Red
his to the in
the first days of occupation
The renegade displayed savage
nature town ot VasylKivKa
Dnipropetrovsk Region Here he
a submachine gun in hand
the men's against
house of Yevhenia Bunchuk
vhere two partisans at the
time When failed the
butchers set the house on
Soon after other members of
the detachment were
and executed in ali 42
This traitor carried on
work zeal was
and nazis appointed
him chief of the police in
of Prelesne Region
Here he put his activities
a broad footing
Nina Soleynyk vorker at the
locomotive shed at Slovyansk
railroad station "The
nazi stooges perpetrated unspeak-abl- e
they par-tisans
sent young men women
for hard labor plundered Ba-benko
stood out among the others
His appearance alone caused re-pulsio- n"
Maria Kovalenko a senior citizen
participated in the
tells: the of 1943 we
at our risk to put graves
of Soviet in order
about this Babenko
to the on follovving
day Togelher with his assistant
a turncoat like they
torturing us — struck us a
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Otlier changes in the
in vvill see tlie production of 140
F-1- 6 planes for deploy-me- nt
in 1988 Under an agreement
in 1982 the is allovved to use
1 6 air bases in and is upgrading
tvvo more and building a third Surveil-lanc- e
of the region was in 1 983
by the stationing of NATO AWACS
(Airborne Warning and Control Sys-tem)
In addition the US defence
of var criminal Vasyl who now resides in Ca-nada
to jurisdiction was at a meeting residents
of the villages Prelesne Maidan Petrivka District
Donetsk on the territory this the
nazis and hireiings — traitors the Ukrainian
3496 civilians including 430 children and sent 5000 to Hitlerite
for labor V Babenko took an part in the mass
actions
is no
for the majority of
begun
evaded
Army and of-ferr- ed
services nazis
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his bloody
Vasyl Babenko's
noticed the
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Donetsk
criminal
on
the
atrocities: executed
and
and
who meeting
'In spring
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soldiers Learn-in- g
summon-e- d
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himself began
with
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until people
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Region the war district
people —
people
punitive
testifies:
pain Inen tney poured cold vater
over them and continued the tor-tur- es
The same was also done to
collective farmer V Bilychenko
and teacher O Shevchenko: the
former was 'guilty' of burying
dead Soviet soldiers the latter had
refused to repair the road used by
the nazis for transporting ammuni-tio- n
and equipment"
Here are other vvitnesses' accounts
"Our house was next to the police
station and I often heard cries and
groans come from the room where
Babenko carried on interroga-tions- "
says L Nahorna "At the
end of the spring of 1943 early in
the morning he led the polizei men
to the Sukhy Torets river where
partisans vere hiding in the reeds
Later on we found six dead peo-ple
there They were Mykhailo
Bondar Ivan Holosny Leonid
Zhytnyk Ivan Krainyk Olexiy
Yaroshenko and Taisia Voloshyna"
His servility to the Hitlerites vvon
Babenko a nazi award Nadia
Vinnyk a teacher of the local
school remembers vell that day
Ali villagers — women children
old people — were driven together
on the square The strains of bra-vur- a
music could be heard and a
German photographer was clicking
his camera Babenko torturing the
Ukrainian language by affecting
a German accent said: "Receiving
this high award I pledge to fight
against the partisans communists
and the Jews to the last I thank
the German command and Adolf
Hitler for the honor done to me"
The traitor did not know then that
the photos taken during that Jarce
vvould become documentary eviden-c- e
After the expulsion of the
invaders these photos would be
among the documents captured by
advancing Soviet troops
The present address of the traitor
who managed to flee is the city
Gateway to the Third World
Merzifon~rv-~'"""'"''"- ~"
DÄSä
VW
nuclear-capabl- e
provides Turkey vvith just under $1 1 bil-lio- n
a year for the modemisation of its
armed forces
Despite Turkish and US assertions that
the nuclear bases are not related to the
development of the US Rapid Deploy-me- nt
Force and the Central Command
the military build-u- p in Turkey has a clear
significance outside NATO's sphere of
concerns Planes stationed at the Mus air
base currently under construction
of Toronto Canada It is here that
he has found shelter and protec-tio- n
Meanwhile the declaration on
the responsibility of the war cri-mina- ls that was signed by the
Allied countries in October 1943
stated that those who had not yet
stained their hands vvith the
blood of the innocent should be
on notice not to find themselves
among the perpetrators for the
three Allied countries shall find
them even at the world's end
and bring them to justice
The Nuremberg Trials the 40th
anniversary of which is marked by
mankind brought the major war
criminals to justice but part of the
war criminals found shelter and
protection in a number of capita-lis- t
countries Those countries'
reactionary quarters do their ut-mo- st
to diminish the responsibi-lity
of the Hitlerite butchers and
their lackeys for the crimes per-petrated
during WWII The CIA
and ali kinds of associations
"fraternities" and "voices" spon-sore- d
by it have taken various
turnocoats under their wing
War criminal Ivan Dik who corn-mitte- d
atrocities in the miners'
town of Selidove still lives in the
West Another renegade Fedir
Dmytriev former burgomaster of
Olexandrivka District also goes
scot-fre- e The meetings of residents
that have been held in these parts
this year urged Canadian Prime
Minister Brian Mulroney to extra-dit- e
those culprits
The demand of Soviet people hai
met with no response overseas
though This position of the Ca-nadian
Government and the go-vernmen- ts
of other Western coun-tries
where nazi collaborationists
nide from punishment runs coun-te- r
to the universally recognized
international norms and agree-ment- s
and is an outrage upon the
memory of the victims of nazism
Residents of the villages of Pre-lesne
Maidan and Petrivka in
Slovyansk District have again filed
an appeal to the Canadian authori-tie- s
demanding the extradition of
war criminal Vasyl Babenko Hu-ma- n
memory demands retribution
For spilled human blood is no
water
S HASAN and M STOLYAROV
RATAU correspondents
A delegation the of Tampere has Kiev its
tvvin city at the invitation of the City Executive Committee
Head of delegation of Tampere Jarmo Rantanen
intervievved by NFU
Profound and serious contacts
"Among the traditional
friendly contacts Tampere
maintains contacts vvith Kiev
cover the longest time and are
perhaps most fruitful" said
Jarmo Rantanen "Our friends-hi- p
has been testcd by time and
by good business relations
Year in year out it becomes
stronger and assumes ever
forms We started vvith the ex-changi- ng
of exhibitions sports
dclcgations performcrs and
tourist groups present our
contcts have a more profound
and serious character They
include long-ter- m exchanges of
students and instructors bet-vveen
the universities in Kiev
and Tampere the mutually
beneficial exchange of expe-rienc- e
various munici-pa- l
services such as housing
construction trade landscape
gardening etc"
What do you think about the
future of these relations?
"New opportunitics are
opening up primarily in the
sphere of economic techno-logic- al
and Scientific exchange
The chief aim of our visit is to
discuss the future of these
contacts
"I think that our contacts
and cooperation convincingly
confirm the fact that people vvho
live in countries with different
political and social systems can
be true friends and do much for
the strengthening of mutual un- -
vvould be only 500 miles from Tehran
and 700 miles from the Gulf The BAS
quoted the director of the US Air Force
military construction as telling Congress
in 1983 that the strategic value of US
bases in Turkey vvould cover "contingen-cies- "
other than the southern flank of
NATO Efforts by the US to enhance its
military presence in other areas of the
Middle East can only be assisted by its
military build-u- p in Turkey
from Finnish city visited
Kiev
the Mayor vvas
new
At
betvveen
derstanding and the preser-vatio- n
of peace on earth'"
We know well that the Fin-nish
people favor the creation of
a nuclear weapons free zone in
the north of Europe The Soviet
Union supports this initiative
What do the Finns think of the
Soviet proposals on complete
elimination of nuclear arms up
to the end of the 20th century?
"Finns highly appreciate
the goodwill of the Soviet Union
which has twice prolonged its
moratorium on nuclear tests
It is clear that the elimi-nation
of nuclear arms meets
the interests of ali people Every
sober-minde- d person must un-dersta- nd
the necessity of imme-diat- e
solution of this problem
The vvhole world sees that the
Soviet Union is ready for honest
talks vvith the United States
that it is prepared for decisive
steps to get the talks on nuclear
disarmament out of the dead-loc- k
of futile debates We would
like to see an equally serious
and businesslike approach to
the most important problems of
today on the part of the US
Administration At present un-fortuna- tely
its position is an
obstacle in the way of ali man-kind
desire to live in peace and
friendship"
Interviewed by Oleh Manko