Messages From USSR, CPR (FBIS, 2 Apr 1965)

=== [PDF page 1] === Messages From USSR, CPR Hanoi VNA International Service in English 0533 GMT 2 April 1965--B (Text) Hanoi, 2 April--Indignant at the U.S. imperialist's aggression against South Vietnam and war provocations against the DRV, the youth in many socialist and other countries have volunteered to go and fight beside the Vietnamese people against U.S. imperialism, According to the VNA correspondent in Moscow, up to 24 March, the DRV Embassy in Moscow had received hundreds of letters, messages, and petitions from Soviet people of various strata voicing solidarity with the Vietnamese people in their struggle against the U.S. imperialist aggressors. Some 37 of these letters bear the signatures of 69 officers in active service or in the reserve forces, workers, pupils, students, and so forth who volunteered to go and fight in Vietnam. The letter from 19 tenth-form pupils of the school for young electricians in Kusin District, Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic said: The premediated U.S. bombings and strafings of the DRV have aroused high indignation among the peace-loving people all overthe world, The present situation necessitates urgent and resolute measures on the part of the people of the socialist camp and the peace-loving people as a whole. In case the U.S, imperialists expand their war in South Vietnam and provoke a war against the DRV, we will do all we can, including enrolling as volunteers to fight in Vietnam. === [PDF page 2] === S. Taranova, 29, a woman physician in Nikopol city of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, wrote in her letter: If you need medical nurses, I am ready to go to Vietnam at any time. N.I. Loitenkov in Gomel city (Belorussia) wrote: My family was highly indignant on learning that the U.S. imperialists bombed and strafed peaceful villages of the DRV. We seethed with anger when we were told that old folks, women, and children in Vietnam were massacred by the aggressors. JI am the father of two children, the youngest being only two months old, But more than anything else we cherish peace and happiness, inererore, we urgently ask you to allow me to join the Vietnamese Army to defend the industrious Vietnamese people who are advancing along the path of building socialism. In 20 March, I.P, Sivoki, pilot officer during World War II, went from Lenibabad city in Tadjikistan to the DRV Embassy in Moscow and asked to go to fight in Vietnam. A stirring movement to fight as volunteers in Vietnam is spreading throughout China. Many militia units, workers, peasants, scientific and medical workers, and students have sent letters to the DRV Embassy in Peking asking permission to side with their Vietnamese brothers and sisters in fighting off American aggression. Tne letter of the militia regiment at the Kwang Hua textile mill (Peking) said: The U.S. imperialists! aggression in Vietnam is a serious provocation against the world's people and against the Chinese people. We resolutely support the Vietnamese people. All cadres and militiamen at our mill pledge to improve constantly our military techniques. We will immediately go to Vietnam to defeat the U.S. imperialists when we are needed. Similar letters were sent by cadres and workers of the Light Industry Ministry, the Peking liquor factory, and the car company in Peking. On 10 February, a reserve unit of the People's Liberation Army in Kwangsi sent a letter to President Ho Chi Minh, saying: We are well prepared and will act at your first call. Many workers, youths, and students in Hunan, Nanking, and Kiangsu have sent letters to the Chinese Government or the DRV Embassy in China saying that they are ready to make every sacrifice for the cause of the anti-U.S. struggle of the Vietnamese people. In the DPRK, workers, cooperative farmers, and students have voiced approval of the statement on 26 March of the DPRK Government and the appeal of the Korean United Denocratic Fatherland Front and expressed readiness to support in all forms the struggie of the South Vietnamese people. At the meeting on 30 March of the workers of the Tokchon car factory in South Pyongang Province, Kim Ki-ho, president of the factory's trade union, said: All the workers of our factory are ready to go to Vietnam to fight on the side of their Vietnamese prothers and sisters whenever the latter need then. The Cuban people have warmly hailed the statement of the Cuban Government saying that Cuba is ready to send men and weapons to Vietnam to join the fight against U.S. imperialism. Thirty workers of the Jerando Abreu pape: mill nave signed a petition to President Fidel Castro expressing their resolve to hold their suns tightly to fight beside the Vietnamese people against the U.S. aggressors. === [PDF page 3] === The Cuban paper HOY has received hundreds of messages of various strata of the Cuban people voicing readiness to assist the Vietnamese people in men and weapons. (Terittvan?), a Hungarian worker in Budapest, on 6 March, went to the DRV Embassy to apply to go and fight in Vietnam against the U.S. imperialist aggressors. Workers, peasant, and women organizations in Indonesia have called on their members to enroll as volunteers in Vietnam. The Indonesian Women's Movement has sent a message to the South Vietnam National Liberation Women's Union declaring readiness to send Indonesian women volunteers to South Vietnam.