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A XeAcNOeSe for uctober 19526 EUROPE'S LIVING "CHINESE WALL": A SHIFT OF POPULATIONS iN THE BAST. ee eee ee cae ahe carpe thonuliradn ian examples 1 Most alYarming news have been reaching us lately, reporting on present conditions in Carpatho-tkrainia. it will be recalled that this small mountain country was was ceded by Czech rresicent benes to the USSR in 1945. it was incorporated into the Ukradnian Soviet Socialist Republic. The reason why Moscow had claimed that territory was an entirely strategic one. A glance at the map will explain that this corner in the Carpath mountain chain is the dominating point that controls the whole Carpath and Danube Basin: Slovakia, Hungary and Transsylwania. It is the natural road that links the graat HKussian plains to hungary and from there on to Austria, Yugoslavia, italy and Switzerland. une of the main strategic Mast-West roads thus leads trough the varpatho-Ukraine and it is not astonishing that since its annexation, the soviets have started important strategical works in that regione The most consequential is the new railroag, of which a previous dispatch has given all the detailse necently another great step has been undertaken towards complete assimilation of the Garpath € ia tbe, bloody p ecyution of ths Church has been xx i : SRL uae aie exile of all their ecclediastical leaders and/the entire clergy, the population however remained faithful and continued opposing the official Moscow Hierarchy. Soviets therefore decided to strike at the population itself. Not obhy the intellectuals, but XXX the inhabitants, mostly of ruthene and magyar stock, where deported wholesale to Siberia, They were allowed to take along only some essential personal effects and had to leave all their other belonging In the empty farms, homes and working places, new populations were placed. They have come from the eastern regions of the Soviet Union, from Siberia and many also from Mongoliae As to the new elite - the intellectuals, the specialists, the professior: nals, the public employees etc. - it was gathered from all over the Soviet Union. In the main city of Uzgorod, a Soviet University was opened. It has to form the new young elite of the country, that will become a Soviet model district: Hussian in language and culture; communist in ideology and organizations This ruthless exchange and mixture of population, - as is tragically shown in the recent Carpatho-Ukranian example - is but one instance of a total Soviet plane The figures tossed around in that Soviet game are entire populations, many millions of peoples Since 1945, this plan has been carried out systematicallye its aifferent practical steps were: expulsions, deportations and the east-west migration of populations, called to fill out the established vacuum.