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VENTS, ANALYSIS RN'S ECIM JURTS accounts r alias was Natasha) and Inna ter – and I never allowed ourselves get lax, cry or complain. We didn't the SS women humiliate us even at threat of death. When things got lly tough, we sang Soviet songs – yusha, Tankmen or recited verses. When I got typhoid, I was placed the sick bay. The 'old' inmates – ech and German women Commu- ts, Yugoslav partisans helped my ands to find me. When I came to, saw palms of hands stretched wards me holding an onion and few pieces of stale bread – the Brest gift for me at the time. The ne prisoners (Marie Claude Vail- t-Couturier was included among m), helped us to get established in sick bay to avoid the exhaustive eck-ups which lasted for several urs out of doors in cold, rain and ow. Ly Alpatova performed gical operations at the sick bay. e stayed, at the risk of her life, at sick bay till the very arrival of the viet troops. For a long time after the eration, letters addressed to 'Doc- Lyuba' came to the USSR from ferent countries from former inma- Soviet POWs managed to stage eroic escape, the only successful ssive escape in Oswiecim's history, which 69 people took part. The ows prepared for it for a long time thoroughly, and performed it for 25th anniversary of the October Y CENTRE in Geneva, four documents are ng compiled and will constitute the is of a political settlement. They the Afghan-Pakistani Agreement Revolution. Many of them died in the attempt." "I spent about two years in Oswie- cim," says Roman Korneyev. "The first week was the most terrible. 'Natural selection' was in progress. The newcomers were killed only for not knowing the camp routine or for failing to understand the commands. The extremely hard labour, hunger, diseases, tortures and punishments and beastly conditions of life undermi- ned health and crippled people. I still see in my dreams, the heaps of dead bodies near the barracks, the smoke coming from the crematoriums and the emaciated prisoners. My blood still curdles when I recollect my meetings with Mengele, the sa- dist-doctor. I witnessed seven 'selec- tions' when he was looking for people for his experiments. "But still many prisoners survived. Mutual help made it possible for us to stand up to everything and not to lose our human dignity. My friends in the camp supported me at the hardest times. They were B. Frantiszek from Krakow, Gustav Rabolyan from Paris, P. Bogev from Hungary and Alexan- der Lebedev from Moscow. We regarded our chief task to send outside, through underground chan- nels the truth about Oswiecim so that people would learn about the crimes being committed by the nazis. "As the front-line from the East drew nearer to the camp, an order came from Berlin to get rid of the prisoners and everything that could compromise the nazis. The internatio- nal underground organization in the camp learned about this and informed the outside world of the crime being prepared, which made it impossible for the nazis to fulfil their plans." I often asked myself one and the same question: "Do I have the right to ask these people to tell about what they had gone through, to relive the years spent in that nazi hell?" Please forgive me, dear and coura- geous people! But we must go back to it. Everyone should know about it so that the horrors of fascism will never be repeated. Galina SILCHENKO on non-interference and refusal of intervention, which is necessary for a further withdrawal of Soviet troops; the Afghan-Pakistani Agreement on Voluntary Return of Refugees; the Declaration on International Guaran- tees on the Part of the USSR and the USA, and, lastly, the Document on Mutual Relations. This, to date, is a conditional name, but the meaning of the fourth document is in that it will contain a linkage of all the elements of settlement with the principle of non-interference in Afghanistan's af- fairs and the withdrawal of troops." 5 'MN' INTERNATIONAL ROSTRUM AAPSO'S NEW STRATEGY "The present session of the Presidium of the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organization (AAPSO) featured a new motto: 'Toward a New Strategy and Outlook for Afro-Asian Solidarity'. The point is that in the last few years the AAPSO's relations with national solidarity committees have deteriorated and, consequently, its popular base has shrunk. It's high time we brought our strategy into line with the demands of today." That was how Mourad GHALEB, former Foreign Minister of the ARE, characterized the AAPSO's activities in an interview with MN. On the 14th anniversary of the AAPSO's Presidium session in Cairo, which coincided with the 30th anniversary of the organiza- tion itself, Ghaleb was confirmed Acting Chairman. Q.: What plans do you have for restructuring the AAPSO's activi- ties? A.: The main thing is to work out a plan of action which corresponds to the problems posed by our epoch. We intend to put special emphasis on activating the move- ment's national committees. This will increase and strengthen the movement's active base. The second crucial aspect of our plan involves maintaining a rea- listic approach in assessing the international situation and problems we encounter. As a re- sult of our lack of realism, our arbitrary manipulation with slogans in the past, we have become divorced from reality and thus incapable of making correct deci- sions. Today it is essential that we realize that all disputes and conflict situations must be re- solved by means of dialogue, not confrontation. Given that, imperia- lism remains the main opponent of the national and economic libera