European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Described quoins is a vulgar nation o efforts to promote ethnic to Kimion during visits Early thu year to to fial Ric republics of Silvia ant  Gorbachev  in u wifi Stern radio broadcasts  in incite i Dills against russians and he a Surooj Lavirl princes thai each Nalion Lily enjoys Fri equal place in Sovil society some Western nations still refuse to acknowledge the Baltic republics which a so include Lithuania As Prat of the soviet Union claiming they were taken by i circa underground Independence movements there and in Iho Ukraine still skis. Allot Rijh the arc though to involve a Small and dwindling Minoty. Annexations of Moldavia Georgia and Armenia also occurred during turbulent years and Many historians have denounced Iho alleged popular elections of the soviets to Power a Iraq Dutant there is no longer a Foid Ivia a plumber in the moldavian capital. Kishinev told in associated press reporter loss foil we have  Tun rung rub an Indus ring and  Santo farm " in addition to the expansion Inlo formerly  republics past soviet leaders have  a narc nationalities Stalin s secret police Dap oiled Iho Volga germans crimean la Lars and several caucasus Bounlam populations during i he Earl years o world War to for tear they would collaborate Wilh the invading nazis. Most were allowed to return to their homelands to tha 1950s, except the tatars but the deportations served to disperse the Peoples and their cultures hastening then  into the russian majority in i Plant regions under soviet control platoons of russian workers and Farmers were dispatched before and after Wold War ii to do Pujop Industry and  a Thrno evacuations and Iho Virgin lands program us the late 1950s brought so Many russians to kit a Kuslan Ihal even today they remain the largest smile ethnic Arnup in the Republic russians Obj Hunt d fio most influential  and government pts Andrj dominated the economic Lite of each area they settled amid Dlo aged russian a Oman Aholas born in Samarkand Tolj a reporter during a visit in february thai the knows Only a few words of uzbek despite having spent her whole Lite in the Central asian Republic russian is the official language of the entire country she said the Russil cation of the republics is at the Root of much of the residual nationalism while language and culture Are said to be preserved and respected schoolchildren in All areas must learn russian and it is the required language Lor graduate theses and dissertations according to the National census the Largo majority of 3o/iel Cili ens Are fluent in russian but a traveler to outlying regions quickly Realises that m to people speak Only a Low words of Tho language and local languages prevail religion Posis an even More volatile problem for soviet authorities 1 he officially Alfinis state destroyed thousands of churches in Iho 1930s in an ally Mph to remove the Church 35 Trie prime authority among peasants Many places of worship that survived now serve As museums clubs or warehouses those measures and an ideology that has deemed religion the opiate of Tho masses have fostered suspicion among believers that their officially stated rights of worship Are threatened during a Slapo Vui in umbel Milan in Cicuto to India last no Imbor. Gorbachev called Lor a Irmand uncompromising struggle against religious phenomenon and chided local officials for promoting backward Vic is through their own participation in religion As the Central asian population expands. He Soviel leadership will increasingly lace the need to to distribute labor resources and development funds the finnic fluctuations already pose a problem for  i i be Brj ii number of Central asian soldiers reaching aral Aye one in four red army recruits now conies irom who Central asian republics hut la. Are i Kiiko . Ullo the War in Nigl uni in afgh.k1 Jan Uherc 115,000 soviets Are helping the   retain Contra lol tic  moslem country to avoid Chr emotional Cor Elict of pitting Uviel Mil plums urn inst Lyhun n be l5 who share the Lair Laith. Iii Ilary officials have h to n sending quire slavic and  coklil1 to that Init in politburo Gorbachev Bottom Rig Tell but two of 11 members Are russians byelorussian or ukrainians. Friends photograph a newly married kazakh couple outside the wedding Palace in Alma Ata. Central asians hers some chess players in Tashkent Are very conscious of differences from russians. Sunday May 24, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 17