European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday june 22, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 9 pravda denounces Stalin s wartime role Moscow Ai j the communist party newspaper pravda published a Condo malian monday of Josef Stalin s Friendship treaty Wilh nazi Germany and accused him of crippling the red army by purging the officer corps just before work War ii. The publication of a full Page article challenging Stalin s image As a Brilliant wartime Lender was another major step in he process of i Cha Minalio. Which has become a denunciation of the Man who ruled inc soviet Union for nearly three decades. Many articles in Rocen months have attacked Stalin for purging those he called enemies of inc people and for the violent Way in which he Coll Clivi cd agriculture and forced inc country to industrialize. His reputation As the Leader who Gal Vani cd the soviet nation to resist the nazi invaders and drive them Oul had been left largely intact but on monday the party newspaper published a chapter of a new biography by Gen. Dmitri vol Logonov reassessing the dictator s role. It appeared two Days before the. 47th anniversary of the German invasion which usually elicits solemn articles about soviet heroism. In the Center of the Page was a photograph of Stalin smiling and shaking hands with Joachim von ribbon drop Hitler s foreign min ister with a caption that said we Call your attention to  in our opinion it was a major Polilli Josef Stalin blinded by stubbornness Cal lapse to sign the treaty on Friendship and inc Border Between the . And Germany on sept. 28, 1939," the article said. The line should have been drawn at the signing of the non aggression Pael the month before which evidently was a forced  while the non aggression pact shocked the non fascist governments of Europe the subsequent treaty Shook the foundations of communist ideology by Declar ing Friendship Between the soviet Union and the fascist Adolf Hitler. To Logonov questioned How Stalin and his Premier Vyacheslav m. Molo Tov could forge a Friendship with the nazis. To practically disavow All our own Anli fascist ideological positions that was Loo much the article said. Soviet historians have portrayed the non aggression pact As necessary because the nation was Loo weak to confront Ger Many and needed time to prepare. It is said to have bought Lime for the soviets to build the arms Industry and seize territory particularly Eastern Poland As a Buffer. History Hooks have obscured the Friendship treaty lending to Lump it in with inc non arc Sion pact. The article took Stalin to task for Mili tary blunders calling him a cocksure politician Rullier than a military Strate Gist and it described the purges that Western historians say deprived inc red array of its Best officers. Senseless and bloody terror reached the limits which Hrca Ienco the existence of the very system on the eve of the hard est trials to Logonov said. Two years before the War which was coming to the Borders of inc motherland the country was made  he described Stalin As a Man blinded by his own stubbornness unable to admit mistakes and declared if we innocently refer to foreign policy and strategic blunders As Stalin s mis calculations Ihnn in inc realm of person Nel his actions were plainly criminal. The enormous scale of inc repressions were possible Only because the Leader created a social inertia of violence which begot denunciations Lack of principles slander and mass  Media criticism of Stalin has increased in recent months especially after soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev delivered a nov. 2, 1987, speech to Mark the 70th anniversary of the bolshevik revolution. Gorbachev criticized Stalin for repression and for executing political rivals on false charges of treason but said forced programs of industrializing the Mounir Ana collect Viking agriculture were Justi fied because the country needed to be modernized. He did not mention figures bul West Ern historians say million of people died in the 1930s purges. Members of an All woman unit of the pro iraqi rebels signal their Victory in Mehran from aboard armoured vehicle. Iranian rebels claim victories bad Rah Iraq a iranian insurgents claimed tuesday they have killed or wounded 8,000 of Amatul Lah Ruhollah Kyj Iomini s soldiers in three Days of fighting the rebels also said they captured the Border town of Mehran and millions of dollars Worth of weapons a spokesman Tor the iraqi based National liberation army told the associated press in Cyprus by Telephone that la forces continued fighting iranian soldiers around Mehran on tuesday. He gave no de tails. The la said in a communique i such by its head quarters in Baghdad hat its forces routed 32 battalions of iranian regulars and revolutionary guards in an offensive code named forty  the communique sen 10 inc a in Nicosia by telex said the iranian government forces numbered 16,000. Earlier la communiques estimated inc iranian strength around Mehran at 14,000 government troops and revolutionary guards. The la did not say How Many fighters it had committed to the Battle for Mehran. The rebels and mined that 57 of their fighters died and 120 were wounded. La commanders have said they did not plan to hold Mehran whose civilian population fled years ago. The 22 brigades of rebels apparently were disengaging to gradually pull Back across the Border into Iraq. Haiti restoring order after military coup port a Prince Haiti a haitians cautiously ventured into the streets tuesday after a Mili tary coup catapulted la. Gen. Henri Namphy Back to Power after four months of civilian Rule and ended Hopes Tor democracy. Some Telephone service was restored after being Cut monday. The streets filled with cars and people in the morning after being nearly dirt a the previous morning. Scattered gunfire was heard in the streets voc might and into inc Dawn bul Here were no signs of factional fight ing. Soldiers have often fired their weapons into the air to frighten civilians from the Street since the coup. Namphy re established military Rule by decree and named his own government monday just hours after ral lying troops who seized the National Palace und quickly ousted president Leslie Mani Gal s 4-month-old civilian government. The sex president a 57-year-old former political science professor was expelled with his family to inc dominican Republic which shares the Caribbean Island of hispanic la with Haiti he issued a statement through a spokesman saying he was unhurt and would soon speak to reporters. Domin ican government sources said Manigat might travel 10 Venezuela where he had been offered political Asylum and lived in exile in the late 1970s. On monday some citizens and officials predicted a Bleak future Abr inc was Lorn hemisphere s poorest coun try most businesses and schools in this capital of million people were flirted. There were no reported priests in this arid mountainous country of 6 million people. This Means the end of democracy. We Are going to have to live under a military dictatorship a bus Driver said hours after Namphy expelled Mani Gal. The army Hai taken Power. This is a government of murderers and machetes said a former haitian Diplo mat who spoke on condition of anonymity. The coup dashed Hopes for democracy promised by Namphy after popular unrest toppled the Oval ice family s 29-year dictatorship. The general had led the three Man Junta that ruled Haiti after Jean Claude Duvalier fled exile in 1986. The Junta stepped aside after Mani Gal was elected Jan. 17 in fraud riddled balloting run by the military and boycotted by most haitians