SOVIET AND SATELLITE RADIO COMMENT ON LIFTING OF THE BERLIN BLOCKADE AND THE APPROACHING CFM CONFERENCE

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• Publication Date: November 11, 1998
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A` CDU ON: It is as yet too early for much Soviet or Satellite radio comment on
the actual lifting of the blockade. The Soviet radio, in fact, has had surprisingly
little to say even about the Four-Power decision on the etject. The broadcast of a
NEW TIMES article, Moscow's major cent to date, sees it as vindicating the previous
Soviet position--and as an example of the concrete results that can be obtained when the
Western Powers "renounce their old tactics" under the influence of the powerful world
movement for peace and against aggression. Soviet-controlled German and Satellite radios,
to date more vociferous than Moscow, have widely hailed and publicized the decision as
another great victory for the consistent Soviet policy of "peace" and for the forces of
peace throughout the world. The Paris meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers has
not yet received concentrated attention? The above mentioned NEW TIDIES article views
the meeting as opening "the possibility of... coordinated decisions on the German problem,
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opes to common people throughout the world." At the same time, however,
occasional Gera= (Soviet-controlled) broadcasts and press editorials, some of' which
Moscow quotes, see the "unheard-of haste" with which the Bonn Constitution was approved
as proof of those "divisionist" schemes which are said to be aiming at "creating a fait
accompli" before the Foreign Ministers Conference and at "torpadoing" the Conference
before it has started. Satellite radios in Eastern Europe look with approval and hope
on the approaching ^onference; but they warn, to quote Sofia, that "the success of
future negotiations (has not yet been) assured."
Tt E DEGRSTQN TO 11F? M 12?LOCI a : The following excerpts, taken from a Soviet radio
broadcast of the above-mentioned NEW TIMES article, illustrate the line of Moscow?s
major commentary (to date) on the significance of the Four-Power decision.
...millionts of common people understood who was in the right (on the question
of Germany and Berlin). They drew the right conclusion from the fact that during
the last year the USSR attempted three times to bring about a peaceful settle
mart of the Berlin question; but each time this initiative was met with a refusal
of the Anglo-American leaders. The publication of (the Four-Power
cemmrunique) was received with great satisfaction by world public opinion which
realized how quickly it was possible to obtain concrete results once the
Western Powers renounced their old tactics.
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SOVIET AND SATELLITE RADIO COMMENT ON LIFTINt"', OF
T'E BERLIN BLOCKADE AND THE APPROACHING CFM COIRR.ENCE
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peace policy"; and "the ivfluenc e of the enormous suc.ceesses of I the fight for peace a l11
over the world which reached its climax in the Pa-is and P.ragul Peace Congi; ss. "
quadripartite ttlks." Ot$er factors cited are "first, the Soviet Union ' alpersever
for the "aggaessive," policy of the Western imperialists and warmongers. Itlis of
interest that some of they Satellite radios refer to the "historic victory of the
decisi..a was a victory for, "the peace-loving USSR and the forces of peace" and a defeat
Thus, Moscow implies what her Satellite radios make explicit-. that the Berlin
"The democratic prc ., said that there is little doubt that the Western Pc+flrers w~rte
influenced by the powerful protest movement against the aggressive Atlantic Pa.ct
and by the world-wide mass movement against imperialist military plans"
to the Paris CEM meetings., They are explicit and def'initc , ho~verre.r, in ident-,Eying the '
the fbur Far