EMIGRE ORGAN CALLS FOR URALIAN INDEPENDENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040650-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 31, 2011
• Sequence Number: 650
• Publication Date: March 12, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
Soviet minorities DATE OF
INFORMATION
1951
SUBJECT
HOW
Political - Emigres, minorities
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PUBLIS' ED
WHERE
PUBLISHED
Weekly newspaper
Munich NO. OF PAGES PAGES
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2
DATE
PUBLISHED
25 Aug 1951
LANGUAGE
SUPPLEMENT TO
Kazakh
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
The Ural Avazl (Uralian Voice) is a two-page, mimeographed, weekly news-
paper, published in Munich, Germany, in Latin script, with a claimed circula-
tion of 1,000. The editor is A. Abdulchalil. According to the masthead, Ural
Avazi is a "weekly newspaper for refugees from the Urals, who are in Germany
The second issue of this newspaper, published on 25 August 1951, con-
sisted of a single article entitled, "Reply From the Urals to the Great Moe-
covizers." The writer began by recalling that it January 1951, Truman and
Stassen criticized the Moscow rulers for their expansionist policies and de-
clared chat the people under their oppression must be freed. This criticism,
continued the wracer, did not pleaer Kerensky, Don Levine, and Dallin who, he
claimed, sent agents among the refugees in Germany to tell the latter that the
peoples under the Soviet yoke do not want their freedom. The writer also
charged that there were traitors among the refugees who have settled in Munich,
who also reiterated that all the nations inside the USSR wanted to be part of
one great and Indivisible union. All these people, he claimed, were traitors
in the pay of Moscow, their leader being Kerensky. As proof of the latter's
perfidy, he recalled that it was Kerensky who refused to admit representatives
of the 50 million people of various Ural nationalities in his government in
June 1917.
Pointing out that the justification for keeping the many Tatar nationali-
ties living in the USSR under the Soviet yoke was the theory that "modern civ-
ilization wants to unite the different peoples rather than split them apart,"
the writer emphasized that a nation which wants to unite other peoples under
it must itself have reached a certain degree of perfection and implied that
this was certainly not true of the Soviets. The fact is, he continued, that
even Slavs like the Little Russians i.e., Ukrainians and Ruthenians, White
Russians, and others are trying to free themselves from Moscow's domination.
At this point, the writer apparently attempted to support his theory by a his-
torical reference, stating that "some of them, like the Poles, did not join
the Orthodox faith to avoid absorption by the Moscovites."
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In concluding his article, the writer called on the Ural nationalities to
organise and fight for their independence. In New York City, he stated, there
was an Uralian Moslem priest who could act in the name of the 35 million Ural
Moslems and could cooperate with the Christian Finns and Magyars living in the
US; as well as with the Catholic Church. He did not elaborate on this situa-
tion. But through such efforts, he concluded, the creation of the Union of
Ural Republics would be achieved.
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