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Xenophobic Group
Thrives On 'Glasnost'
London (JTA) — The
emergence in the Soviet
Union of a chauvinistic, anti-
Semitic organization reminis-
cent of the Black Hundreds of
Czarist times is a potentially
disturbing new phenomenon
on the Soviet scene, says a
report by the Institute of
Jewish Affairs, research arm
of the World Jewish Congress.
The organization is Pamyat
— Russian for "memory" —
the most influential of a
number of so-called historical
and patriotic associations
which have surfaced in the
USSR during the period of
glasnost (openness) ordained
by Party Secretary Mikhail
Gorbachev.
Dr. Howard Spier, an IJA
research officer, prefaces his
study of Pamyat by saying its
character and aims raise
questions fundamental to the
nature of Soviet society.
The organization achieved
prominence after an ap-
parently spontaneous
demonstration in a central
Moscow square on May 6.
About 400 demonstrators
marched toward the Moscow
City Soviet, with banners
condemning Gorbachev's
restructuring program and
demanding a meeting with
Gorbachev and the Moscow
party chief.
Since then, a succession of
vituperative attacks on
Pamyat has appeared in some
leading Soviet newspapers,
suggesting that it had struck
a . nerve in Soviet public
opinion.
According to Soviet press
reports, Pamyat was founded
in 1980 by a number of
employees • of the Soviet
Ministry of Aviation Industry
with the aim of preserving
Moscow's historical and
cultural monuments in the
face of official indifference.
However, Pamyat's objec-
tives had apparently changed
as it was increasingly
penetrated by fanatical
believers in Great Russian
nationalism who also had
xenophobic hang-ups about
the supposed Zionist-Masonic
conspiracy against the Rus-
sian people.
This echoes the rallying cry
of the Black Hundreds
organization, the union of the
Russian people, the reac-
tionary monarchist and anti-
Semitic body which bought
against reforms following the
1905 revolution.
Pamyat shares with these
earlier anti-Semites the belief
in the notorious anti-Semitic
forgery the Protocols of the
Elders of Zion, and that
freemasonry is pervasive.
They even complain that the
Soviet press is inundated
with codes, menorahs and six-
pointed stars.
Anyone with liberal or
Jewish associations is
anathema to them. They sent
a veiled death threat to poet
Andrei Voznesensky. They
blame Lazar Kaganovich, the
only Jew in Stalin's Politburo,
for the drastic decline in the
number of Moscow's chur-
ches, a charge which they also
lay against Emelyan
Yaroslaysky (originally
Gubelman), chairman of the
Militant Atheists.
Pamyat refrains from at-
tacking Gorbachev directly,
but has called him a puppet
of Georgi Arbatov, his Jewish
adviser on foreign policy and
head of the Institute of the
United States and Canada of
the Soviet. Academy of
Sciences.
According to Spier, there is
no doubt that the views of
Pamyat have won the backing
of party officials at various
levels, and a number of their
meetings have been held in
party premises.
It appears, too, that Pamyat
meetings are well attended,
including by youth, despite
the lack of advance notice in
the press. In Dmitry Vasilev,
a journalist • and
photographer, Pamyat seems
to have found a formidable,
even charismatic leader,
whose speeches are recorded
on tape and distributed
around the country.
Spier concludes: "Pamyat is
in many respects a grass roots
movement of the disaffected.
As yet, it does not appear to
have attracted any persons of
prominence to its ranks .. .
but at a time of great flux in
the USSR, its significance
should not be
underestimated."
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NEWS
Dutch Protest
Amsterdain (JTA) — Ten
Dutch organizations for the
prevention of cruelty to
animals have protested to the
Dutch government over
Jewish and Moslem methods
of ritual slaughter. The peti-
tion demands the early in-
troduction of stringent condi-
tions for the ritual slaughters.
In their review, the present
techniques for stunning an
animal before slaughter
would not contravene Jewish
and Moslem regulations.