Anti-Bolshevik bloc of nations
The anti-Bolshevik Block of Nations ( English Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN)) was a coordination center for anti-communist emigrants from socialist countries. The foundation of the ABN goes back to a conference that was held in Zhytomyr on November 21 and 22, 1943 on the initiative of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists . The aim of the ABN was to divide the Soviet Union into individual states. The organization was based in Munich , initially at Dachauer Strasse 9 and from 1954 at Zeppelinstrasse 67. From its foundation until 1986, the ABN was chaired by Jaroslaw Stezko . His successor was his wife Yaroslav Stetsko . The ABN organized demonstrations, press conferences and congresses. The organization cooperated with the World Anti-Communist League and the European Freedom Council. With the end of the Soviet Union, the ABN was dissolved in 1996.
Stetzko, after Stepan Bandera leader of the OUN and president of the "anti-Bolshevik bloc of nations", proclaimed the armed "liberation struggle beyond the Iron Curtain", which the West must "support politically and technically" without "entering into any negotiations with the Bolshevik tyrants ". The leading communists in Western countries “are to be brought to justice and sentenced to death.” In this world of ideas, there was a shift towards fascist ideas.
Members of the ABN
- Free Armenia Committee
- Bulgarian National Front
- Belarusian Central Council
- Kossaken. National Liberation Movement
- Croatian National Liberation Movement
- Czech Movement for Freedom (Za svobodu)
- Czech National Committee
- Estonian Liberation Movement
- Union of Estonian Freedom Fighters
- Georgian National Organization
- Hungarian liberation movement
- Hungarian Mindszenty Movement
- Latvian Association for the Fight Against Communism
- Lithuanian Rebirth Movement
- Slovak Liberation Committee
- Turkestan National Unity Committee
- United Hetman Organization
- Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists
- For the freedom of Vietnam
literature
- Stefanie Birkholz: The West's strongest allies. The Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations 1946–1996. History, organization and working method of a network to smash the Soviet Union , Konkret Verlag , Hamburg 2017 ISBN 978-3-930786-81-7 .
- The World Struggle Against Bolshevism and the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, ABN, Speech by Jaroslaw Sterko, delivered to the British public at the ABN meeting which took place in Edinburgh on June 12, 1950 under the protectorate of the Scottish League for European Freedom . In the holdings of the Bibliothèque nationale de France BNF
Archival material
- Press and Information Office of the Federal Government , FB Part 3: Department IV: -Ausland- (Main File Plan Group 2) - Foreign States-Emigrant Matters (229) in: Federal Archives , signature B 145/6341
Individual evidence
- ↑ Grzegorz Rossolinski: Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist, pp. 317, 318
- ^ Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, encyclopediaofukraine.com
- ↑ in his book The higher sense of our struggle . Munich 1955