February 16, 1976 						
#394-A						Copy #2

Central Committee of the CPSU

On attempts of hostile elements to use for anti-Soviet purposes the so-
called unconventional views that Communist party leaders of some 
capitalist countries hold on the question of democracy  
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Recently, in the course of our operations to prevent hostile actions on 
the part of anti-Soviet elements our attention has been drawn to the 
fact that this category of people was trying to use as a weapon the 
unconventional views proclaimed by the leadership of Communist parties 
in numerous capitalist countries concerning questions of democracy and 
citizens' rights under socialism. Anti-Soviet individuals regard such a 
position as political and moral support for the hostile activity they 
lead. That's why they are appealing more and more frequently to the 
ruling bodies of those parties.
On January 19 of this year a group of ethnic German extremists living 
in the Kirgiz SSR drafted an "open letter" addressed to the 25-th 
Congress of the CPSU and demanding satisfaction of the request of 
ethnic Germans desiring to emigrate to the FRG. Copies of this letter 
were addressed to the leaders of Communist parties of England, France, 
Italy, FRG, and USA.
On January 29 a group of German extremists living in Latvia tried to 
force their way into the General Consulate of the FRG in Leningrad in 
order to hand over the so-called "Appeal to the 25-th Congress". Copies 
of the "Appeal" were also addressed to the Communist parties of Italy 
and France.
When the Congress is in session, ringleaders of illegal schismatic 
Baptists intend to hand over documents on "persecution" of religious 
people in the USSR to the heads of the delegations of Communist parties 
of France and Italy. They presume that it will help them to secure 
their "demands" because these parties adhere to other principles in 
questions of religious freedoms. 
A group of extremist Crimean Tatars are contemplating a plan to forward 
to the Communist Party of France papers containing the demand to grant 
them with an autonomy, Jewish nationalists are determined to look for 
ways to meet the leaders of the French and Italian Communist Parties' 
delegations during the 25-th Congress of the CPSU and to call the 
attention to the situation of Jews in the USSR. On January 12 they sent 
a letter to comrades MARCHAIS and BERLINGUER with an invitation to meet 
them in Moscow at the time of the Congress.
The Ukrainian nationalist Oksana MESHKO sent a libelous letter to the 
Central Committee of the French Communist party with a provocational 
request to aid her in releasing from imprisonment her son SERGIENKO 
who, she alleges, was unjustly convicted for nationalist activities.
N.I. BUKOVSKY, the mother of BUKOVSKY who is serving a sentence for an 
especially grave state crime, sent a petition to G. MARCHAIS asking him 
to petition the Soviet government for the release of her son. She 
asserts that her son, while speaking out in defense of human rights in 
the USSR, did not violate any laws of our country.
The mother of  KHEIFITS who was convicted for anti-Soviet actions sent 
a similar petition to comrades MARCHAIS and BERLINGUER via foreign 
journalists.
KHODOROVICH, who is known for her anti-Soviet views twice appealed to 
the French Communist Party leadership asking them to use pressure to 
"democratize" social life in our country.
The position of the French Communist Party, particularly on "human 
rights" questions, is viewed favorably by individuals with hostile 
views living in our country. Therefore, they have been studying it 
carefully and modifying the tactics of their subversive work 
accordingly.
R. MEDVEDEV, known for his revisionist views, remarked in a 
conversation with a foreign journalist in late January that "Western 
Communist parties plan to include pluralism, freedom of press, 
discussion, etc. in the final document of the forthcoming conference of 
European Communist parties... They insist that stress be laid on 
developing an attractive socialism, a socialism with a human face, on 
promoting civil rights and freedoms.... This may cause an upheaval in 
the Communist movement and the possible emergence of a schism. A return 
back to the Stalinist course is absolutely impossible, though a 
struggle in various forms between Stalinist and anti-Stalinist trends 
is characteristic of the Soviet Union, for the whole post-Stalin era."
The present position of Western Communist parties on these questions 
SHOULD, according to MEDVEDEV, contribute to "liberalization" of public 
life in our country.
SAKHAROV and his immediate associates openly praise the position of the 
French and Italian Communist Parties’ leadership. In their opinion, it 
confirms the necessity of "the struggle for human rights in the USSR" 
which they are waging.
The State Security Committee is taking steps to stop the activities of 
anti-Soviet elements.
At the same time acknowledging that Soviet people have questions 
concerning different views of the leaders of the French Communist party 
and of Communist Party leaders in some other capitalist countries, it 
is thought advisable to publish materials in our periodic press 
explaining the Marxist-Leninist notion of democracy, of guaranteeing 
civil rights and freedoms under socialism.

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CHAIRMAN OF THE STATE SECURITY COMMITTEE

ANDROPOV