European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Eastern europeans seeking new life duped info joining oldest profession7 by Marlise Simons the new York times Udith s dream to travel West and her descent into prostitution fell together one night in september 1991, when a car arrived to take her and two other Young hungarian women to work As waitresses in Belgium. The Heady drive across the heart of Europe took 20 a Tours As planned. But the crazy cabaret in Ghent was no restaurant. When the first Man sat next to me and put his hands in my dress i did t know what hit me said Judith who is 24 and wants to hide her last name. I screamed. When everyone stared and no one helped i began to  for the next three months she was kept under close guard in the Brothel she said her papers seized her salary whittled away by debts described As Agency fees taxes food and rent. She was liberated she said when the police raided the Brothel and put her in jail. Stories like this Are told by women from Russia Bulgaria Poland among them students housewives and dancers. They say they were not prostitutes before but were forced into the sex Trade after accepting Job offers in the West. Since the end of the cold War gains and losses of East and West have been widely chronicled but this change has been less visible criminal organizations have set up networks to bring Young women from the former soviet bloc into the voracious sex Industry of Western Europe police officials in Belgium the Netherlands and Germany say. They say that thousands of women from Eastern Europe Are working in the red Light districts of Frankfurt Amsterdam Brussels Zurich. Paris and other european cities. They say that owners of nightclubs striptease joints and Peep shows commonly Trade such women for a fee. When the women s three month tourist visas expire police say their handlers rotate them on a circuit that can include Belgium the Netherlands Germany Switzerland Italy and Greece. They Are not All innocent victims. Some women clearly were already in the business they knew Why they were coming said Jean Marc do chateau head of the Federal police vice squad in Brussels. But others Are deceived and forced. They Are put under heavy physical or psychological pressure and end up As  the presence of foreign men and women is far from new in Western Europe s thriving sex Industry. People have been recruited in some cases deceptively from the Philippines Ghana the dominican Republic wednesday August 11, 1993 Bozena who says she was a dancer in Poland before be lured into prostitution Waits for night to fall in Antwerp Belgium. Colombia and other countries. Some feminist groups have raised the Point that even if migrants choose to be prostitutes which Many do they should not be subjected to extortion and other mistreatment. This is an old game. It s always the same but the players change belgian vice detective in the red Light District of Antwerp Belgium on a recent night women of All races were arriving for the evening shift and settling into their display windows. Outside a Peep show a big sign exclaimed we have new girls every  to a detective of the Antwerp vice squad the sign helped explain Why organized rings with Many agents run the sex Trade. They need a lot of women he said the turnover is very  from 22 years on the beat he Drew this conclusion this is an old game with Many nationalities. It s always the same but the players change. The latest players Are hungarians yugoslavs czechs  the Young women from Prague Moscow or Leningrad who say they have landed against their will in the sex Trade appear to be victims of both Small time opportunists and Large procurer networks often run by new racketeers from the former soviet bloc. Social workers and police officers say the Young East european women Are Gullible because they Are so eager to come to the West. Tho e who say they were duped invariably accepted vague Job offers or invitations. It s not great Money but there s no other work he said. Short subject directors go East to film Cowboy flicks by Wendy Sloane the associated press once Spaghetti westerns were filmed in Italy and Spain to keep Down production costs. Now a less expensive european location is producing a new Brand of Cowboy movie the russian borscht  it s a cheaper place right now said italian director Enzo Castellaro who arrived in Russia three months ago to direct Jonathan and the bears a film about a White boy raised by bears and american indians after his parents Are murdered. Filmed almost entirely on the russian army s formerly off limits a Labinsky military testing grounds about 30 Miles West of Moscow the movie has three russian made sets a 19th Century . Town an american Indian Village and a cemetery. That would be very expensive anywhere said Castellan who has directed 36 films including at least 15 westerns mainly in Spain and Italy. Here it is quite easy to  the $8 million English language movie produced by and starring italian Franco Nero has a largely russian cast although the leading actors Are italian and american. Nero said some of the american indians portrayed in the movie came from Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan which Borders China. Everything on the set is russian made except for such All american props As covered wagons stagecoaches and old fashioned Western saddles shipped in from  150 trained military horses Are being used As Well As some soldiers. Castellari said their uniforms looked so authentic As cavalrymen that Only Cowboy hats were required. Nero said the film originally was to be shot in the former soviet Republic of Georgia but the locale changed after civil strife there made it too dangerous. Some episodes were filmed in Sochi on the Black sea he said. Spaghetti westerns traditionally were Low budget flicks with simple Cowboy and Indian plots. But Nero said his film will resemble dances with wolves and will be anti racist and a Little bit ceo  during filming scores of russian extras milled through the set which was muddied by summer Rains. A Drunken stable Man stumbled Over wooden planks in front of the feed and Grain store. Women dressed As prostitutes chatted in russian near the old West style Post office. Two russian actors on horseback approached the Saloon. Less than a mile away barbed wire fences keep visitors away from rows of former red army tanks belonging to Russia s f Amansa Kaya division which helped president Boris n. Yeltsin defend Russia s White House during the 1991 failed soviet coup. One reason filming costs Are so Low is the sorry state of Russia s Economy. Cowboy extra Alexander Volkov said he receives 3,480 rubles less than $4 a Day in wages about twice the average russian wage. The stars and stripes 17