The Guardian of Liberty - Nemzetőr, 1986 (9. évfolyam, 1-6. szám)
1986-11-01 / 6. szám
12 Lithuania to Mozambique The new Soviet Ambassador to Mozambique is Nikolai Dybenko, Second Secretary of the Communist Forty in Lithuania (one of the three Baltic republics annexed by the USSR in 1940 under the terms of the Nazi Germon-Soviet Non-aggression Treaty of August, 1939). A Russian in his mid-fifties, Dybenko is a career Party bureaucrat, although trained os a metallurgical engineer. Before taking up his Lithuanian Appointment in December, 1978, he headed a section of the Department of Organisational Party Work subordinate to the Soviet Communist Party’s Central Committee. He has been a candidate member of the Central Committee since 1981. Press commentaries have suggested that an experienced Party bureaucrat, 'rather than a career diplomat, was given the Maputo ambassadorship because of the Kremlin's dissatisfaction with Mozambique's increasingly pragmatic policies in recent years. Valentin Dmitriev, Second Secretory of the Commuinst Party in Latvia, another of the Baltic republics annexed by the USSR in 1940, was appointed Ambassador to Ethiopia last July. The previous ambassador, G. N. Andreev, died in February, aged 50. Dmitriev, who is 59, is the third Ambassador to Ethiopia to come from a post as Party Second Secretary of a constituent republic of the USSR. The republican Second Secretaries are almost always Russians, rather than nationals of the republics in which they serve. They are sent there os the Kremlin's direct representatives to supervise the organisation of the Party locally. According to East European sources, one of Dmitriev’s tasks is to advise Ethiopian Marxists on Party organisation. POISON GAS DROPPED INTO TUNNELS Soviet farces in Afghanistan have again used chemical weapons, according to Jane’s Defence Weekly. The November 22 issue of this authoritative, internationally-read British magazine reported that, near Pagham city in October, Soviet forces dropped canisters of gas into irrigation shafts and tunnels in which mujahidin (Afghan Muslim guerrillas) and civilians took shelter. Individuals near tunnel entrances reportedly emerged vomiting and with blue hands. This suggests that they were suffering from cyanosis, a blue discoloration caused by imperfectly oxygenated blood. During recent heavy fighting in Pagham and Chesmibulbul gas was used against guerrillas, lit being delivered in artillery shells or by aircraft. In one incident, five Kabulregime soldiers and two officers were killed when they were enveloped by gas targeted against mujahidin. According to eye-witness accounts by Afghan refugees, the Russians have engaged in chemical warfare from time to time since the Soviet Invasion in December, 1979. For example, on December 23, 1981, Le Monde, the French daily, reported that Soviet helicopters had been seen dropping yellow or black smoke. The survivors had experienced a feeling of suffocation, the onset of paralysis, and often nose-bleeding and vomiting. The faces of the dead were discoloured and swollen. KARMAL SACKED AFTER CEREMONY INCIDENT Babrak Karmai was on November 20 deprived of the ceremonial Presidency of the Afghan regime and of all his other remaining appointments. In May he had been replaced as leader of the regime’s Marxist party, the PDPA, by Major- General Najib, former head of the KHAD, the secret police. Karmai had been Party boss, thereby puppet ruler of Afghanistan, since December, 1979, when the Soviet invaders brought him with them from exile and placed him in office. They murdered his predecessor, President Hafizdullah Amin. In October, 1986, at a ceremony at Kabul’s Bala Hissar fort, Karmai refused to throw flowers to a détachement of Soviet soldiers who were on their way bade to the USSR. This show of independence caused a spontaneous demonstration in his favour by about 30 spectators. They rushed from their allotted places and crowded round him in an emotional display of support — an extraordinary happening, as the small handpicked audience was comprised wholly of Marxists. Altogether Moscow recently withdrew about 8,000 of its more than 115,000 armed forces in Afghanistan. Six regiments were involved, but three of them were anti-aircraft ones — unneeded as the Afghan guerrillas have no air force! On October 12 the foreign edition of Renmin Ribao, the Chinese Communist Party newspaper, described the number being withdrawn as “very insignificant“. It added: “Some even maintain that it is not a withdrawal. 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