European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday september 4, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 3ethnic germans re emerge from repression by Matti Huhtanen the associated press Kaliningrad . A Ludmila Potemko Stezenko lied for decades about her German ancestry for fear of being persecuted in this bastion of soviet communism. A we always denied we were germans because the russians really hated us. We were even scared of talking in German to our children a she said speaking in russian. Now Potemko Stezenko born in 1940 to German parents is Able to talk openly. In january the tide of soviet change reached Kaliningrad and the Region squeezed Between Lithuania and Poland opened to foreigners for the first time in the 46 years since it was forcibly incorporated into the soviet Union. The movements of soviet citizens also had been controlled ostensibly because of military bases near the City which was called Konigsberg when it was part of East Prussia before Germany a de feat in world War ii. The collapse of communism following the failed coup against soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev has Given Kaliningrad a 4,000 ethnic germans new impetus to speak out about past repression. A there was no sensible reason for closing it. It was not for strategic reasons. The communist party just wanted to Divide and Rule. It was purely artificial a said Valery Shipov chairman of the Kaliningrad City Council. Shipov said the City was negotiating the withdrawal of soviet troops. A we done to know exactly How Many there Are but we want some of them out. The problem is being solved at this very moment a Shipov said. Following world War ii in which German soldiers killed millions of soviets the communists destroyed nearly All evidence of German culture in Kaliningrad a a City founded in the 13th Century As Konigsberg and the birth place of German philosopher Immanuel Kant. After 1945, the City was made part of the russian Republic and renamed for the soviet president Mikhail Kalinin one of Stalin a henchmen. Its gothic Castle was replaced in the 1960s with a still incomplete 25-Story communist party building. Locals Call it a the  today the City is a collection of drab apartment blocks that is Home to about 450,000 people. Another 450,000 live in the surrounding area. Seventy five percent of the regions population in ethnic russian. Communist slogans and party propaganda Are splashed across buildings in Kaliningrad and monuments to communist Rule line the potholed streets. Shipov said communist leaders made a bad mistakes but Kaliningrad a which is separated from the rest of Russia by Lithuania and from Germany by Poland a would remain part of the russian federation. Sas a it belongs to the russian Republic but we will open it up for cooperation with other states a Shipov said. Just last week 40 German businessmen signed joint venture agreements with Kaliningrad officials. In years past ethnic germans often were refused work and were not allowed to Register As soviet citizens. But in 1990, a few people of German origin founded a society to promote German culture known As Eintracht. More than 700 people  of soviet immortals on the Down and out by the los Angeles times Moscow a the Marble likeness of the late soviet president Nikita s. Khrushchev is still recognizable although a souvenir Hunter has chipped off his nose. Dictator Josef Stalin has been toppled from his red Granite Pedestal splattered with paint and cast in the role of a playground Hobby horse. Revolutionary Leader Mikhail Kalinin a Bronze statue captures him seated and deeply in thought a a pose that would be decidedly More dignified if a 13-year-old boy were not climbing on his head. At a new Park of political statuary on the Banks of the Moscow River there is no mistaking How the mighty have fallen. Some muscovites consider the outdoor collection of defaced uprooted monuments to be a fitting end for the misguided figures whose quest for a communist state drove the country to the Brink of ruin. But others decry what seems to be an unspoken invitation to vandalize the historical Fig ures. A this is our history a said Mikhail Tarasov a Tele vision journalist from the Ukraine As he watched schoolchildren transform the statues into a Jungle gym. A we  just Bury it like so much  the sculpture Garden across from Gorki Park is a project of the Moscow City Council commission on cultural heritage which has set up a team of experts to decide the future of other memorials honouring the 1917 bolshevik revolution and its legacy. A this Isnit an exhibition its a graveyard a Art student Tanya Rainova said with a nod of approval. A your former communist system is being buried  most of the exhibits on hand for the unc Eremo. Nious opening of the Park monday were not yet in their designated places. The likeness of Kab founder Felix e. Dze Rohinsky removed from Lubianka Square just Over a week ago Lay Flat on its Back in a Grassy area outside Moscow scentral exhibition Hall. One tarnished Bronze hand was in his pocket the other gripping his Cap. Khrushchev a massive bust also not yet upright re Clines at the rear of the outdoor museum. The Ignominy of his presentation is accentuated by the fact that someone has taken a Hammer and chisel to his White Marble nose. Stalin whose polished statue is of mysterious origin a few survived the purge of his image Over the past 35 years a has been spattered with red paint a reminder of the blood spilled during his tyrannical Rule. Oddly the bust of Lavrenti Beria Stalin a hated secret police chief appears unscathed despite its front and Center placement in the unguarded Park. The open air museum Drew hundreds of visitors on opening Day. Many were dismayed by the rough treatment of their past. A a it a necessary to find a new place for these leaders in our history but it should be done correctly a said Yuri Duhnovsky a technician at what used to be the Sacco and Vanzetti Pencil factory. A this should be a place where we can take children and talk about this sad chapter of our history a observed one Young woman shaking her head in dismay at the surrogate  spreads in Britain As police youths clash police in riot gear prepare to confront crowds of rampaging youths Early tuesday at a housing project in Oxford England. London up a riot police clashed with crowds of rampaging youths in three cities As violence spread in Britain and the government vowed tuesday to punish lawbreakers. A i utterly condemn this mindless hooliganism and robbery for which there can be absolutely no excuse a Home office minister John Patten said. A the courts have a Range of punishments available to them for those tried and  in the University town of Oxford 35 Miles Northwest of London four people including a policeman were injured late monday in a fourth night of clashes. A woman was stabbed and her Boyfriend hit with a baseball Bat after they confronted a crowd that had gathered outside the woman a Home in the Blackbird Leys housing project. Later a second woman was stabbed and a policeman injured by a Stone As riot police dispersed a crowd of More than 200 people police said. The violence in Oxford apparently was the result of a police crackdown on Joy riders in a housing estate. In the Welsh coastal City of Cardiff crowds of youths threw stones and bottles at police for a fourth night. Eleven people were arrested authorities said. Violence flared for the first night in the Northern English City of Birmingham where youths attacked police and looted shops during a Power blackout. Police said 18 people were arrested