Declaration of International Interdependence

of the Sons and Daughters of God on Behalf of the People
Apart from Their Political, Economic, and Military Oppressors
in Every Nation on Earth
Delivered Christmas Day 1981

Preamble

Citizens of the World,

When existing governments, laws, or international agreements no longer provide a framework for universal freedom but have instead extinguished all efforts for self-determination, it becomes the right and the duty of the people so oppressed to alter or abolish them and to forge a new guardianship for the universal laws and the inalienable rights granted to man by his Creator.

The indwelling Spirit of Life within the hearts of men has prevented a widespread call to arms among the people of earth against their oppressors who have perpetrated intolerable governmental, social, and legal injustices; for as history records, senseless bloodshed has never been the solution. Nevertheless, the events of the hour demand direct and concerted action.

Life itself cries out to be liberated from its economic, political, and military oppressors East and West. Heartless leaders of the free world have stood by and watched recent intervention by the forces of World Communism impose totalitarian systems on the peoples of Poland, Afghanistan, Laos, Cambodia, and certain states of Africa and Central America that have stripped from the people of these nations their inalienable rights of human dignity, life, liberty, property, and self-determination.

The militaristic leaders of World Communism have spread their system of government and the absolute control of society as a cancer upon the earth that has offered nothing but slavery, death, and a mechanized existence to the people of God.
The forces of World Communism have carried out their unscrupulous moves toward world domination unchecked by the leaders of Western nations, who claim impotence because they are bound by certain international accords and agreements.

We, therefore, as representatives of the people, can no longer remain silent in the face of such tyranny. We affirm our right and our duty to declare our disavowal of these hollow agreements and accords.

We offer instead our pledge to establish a world commonwealth of the people of God based upon the recognition that it is only the united interdependency of brother to brother, transcending all racial, religious, ideological, political, and national barriers, that can maintain a world order committed to mutual peace, security, justice, universal freedom, and individual self-destiny that reflects the genuine interests and aspirations of all peoples.

In support of this action, we, by the authority of the Flame of Life vested in us by our Creator, do hereby deliver the following Declaration of International Interdependence of the Sons and Daughters of God Apart from Their Political, Economic, and Military Oppressors in Every Nation on Earth:

Statement of Grievances against the Political, Economic, and Military Oppressors of the People

Whereas, certain international agreements made without the vote or consent of the people at the close of World War II at Yalta, February 4-11, 1945, and Potsdam, July 27-August 2, 1945, have resulted in the subjugation of over 140 million East European people to World Communism; have maintained the bondage of 265 million Russians; and have opened the door for the enslavement of over 1 billion Asians, Africans, and Latin Americans; and

Whereas, the terms of the agreements negotiated for and on behalf of the people of the world at Yalta and Potsdam in 1945 and at Helsinki in 1975, which promised "a secure and lasting peace," the right to "free and unfettered elections" on "the basis of universal suffrage and secret ballot," and guaranteed the right of every nation "to juridical equality, to territorial integrity and to freedom and political independence," have been violated and abused by the Soviet Union; and

Whereas, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at Yalta, as representatives of the free peoples of the world, capitulated to Joseph Stalin and abandoned Poland; recognized the Soviet occupation of Mongolia, Moldavia, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania; and agreed to accept Stalin's terms on a voting formula for the United Nations that turned a potentially effective international organization into a mere facade; and

Whereas, Roosevelt and Churchill, without the concurrence of Chiang Kai-shek, agreed to pay Stalin's price for Soviet intervention against Japan (an intervention that was nonessential) that gave the Soviets rights to east Asian territory, paving the way for the future Communist domination of Asia; and

Whereas, at the continuation of these talks at Potsdam, the Western Allies, now under the leadership of President Harry S. Truman and Prime Minister Clement Attlee, gave in to Stalin and granted further concessions to the Soviet Union, giving them one-third of the German naval and merchant marine fleet, reparations from both Soviet and Western occupied territories, control of the Balkans, and the extension of Poland's boundary; and

Whereas, the thirty-five-nation summit meeting in Helsinki, Finland, in July 1975, produced the accords that gave the Soviet bloc the long-sought-for international recognition of the borders established by the Yalta and Potsdam agreements; and

Whereas, these accords also guaranteed the protection of and respect for basic human rights and fundamental freedoms, established the "inviolability of frontiers" and "non-intervention in international affairs" of another participating nation, and called for greater economic cooperation among the signatories; and

Whereas, these three agreements, negotiated against the will of the people and without the consent of their respective representative assemblies, have given the leaders of the Communist world the opportunity to repress the peoples of Mongolia, Moldavia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia; and whose inequities exported around the globe have spread Communism to the peoples of China, North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and more recently Libya, Ethiopia, Angola, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Grenada, with Iran, Guatemala, and Honduras hanging in the balance;

Soviet Violations, Atrocities, and Noncomplicity

Conscious of the almost unending list of atrocities of the sixty-four-year-old Soviet regime and the unbroken record of treaty violations and noncomplicity with international agreements, we therefore affirm our right and solemn duty to review before all mankind the historical record of these events:

Whereas, in 1918-1919, the Soviet secret police, the Cheka, executed, without trial, more than 1,000 persons each month; and

Whereas, in 1918, the new Bolshevik government under Lenin ordered its soldiers to machine-gun the crowds in Petrograd who were demanding the elections of independent factory committees; and

Whereas, in 1932 and 1933, the Soviet government under Stalin's direction artificially created a famine in the Ukraine causing 6 million persons to die; and
Whereas, at the height of Stalin's terror in 1937-1938, 40,000 persons were shot to death each month; and

Whereas, Hitler, on August 23, 1939, concluded a nonaggression pact with Stalin which contained a secret protocol dividing Poland into German and Soviet spheres of interest, which proved to be the decisive factor leading to the outbreak of World War II; and

Whereas, beginning in 1939, the Soviet government, along with the Nazis, participated in mass deportations of Poles living in their respective spheres; and

Whereas, within months of the 1939 nonaggression pact between Stalin and Hitler, the Soviet army had occupied Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, and the NKVD (the secret police) arrested 140,000 persons which they then deported to Soviet prison camps; and

Whereas, in the first fifteen years of Soviet rule in Lithuania, which began in June 1940, 1.2 million Lithuanians were liquidated or deported to Soviet prison camps; and

Whereas, in the spring of 1940 at Katyn near Smolensk, Russia, 4,243 unarmed Polish officers were shot in the back of their necks and buried in mass graves by Soviet soldiers; and

Whereas, in 1944, the Soviet high command refused to allow Polish troops under its control to cross the Vistula River to support their countrymen in the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazis which resulted in the leveling of Warsaw and the death of 15,000 Polish patriots; and

Whereas, about 6 million Polish citizens-22 percent of the nation's total population-died during World War II, and of these, only 600,000 were actual war casualties, the greatest loss of approximately 4.5 million being due to the mass extermination, deportation, exile, and forced emigration of Poles; and

Whereas, the Nazis were responsible for at least four-fifths of these losses, and the rest were the responsibility of the USSR; and

Whereas, the United States and Russia signed a secret agreement in 1945 which became known as Operation Keelhaul in which the parties agreed to the forced repatriation to the Soviet Union of almost 4 million anti-Communist Soviet subjects who had sought asylum in the West and who, upon return, faced certain execution; and

Whereas, Japan's surrender in 1945 set off a civil war in China between Nationalist forces led by Chiang Kai-shek and the Soviet-backed forces of Mao Tse-tung, who defeated Chiang Kai-shek and exiled him and his followers to Formosa; and

Whereas, with Mao's success, 953 million people have been enslaved against their will to a totalitarian government, which has a record of murdering 64 million Chinese; and

Whereas, when, in June 1956, a work stoppage at the Poznan railway factory grew into a massive demonstration against the Communist system, Polish police killed over 50 people and arrested 323; and

Whereas, in November 1956, the Soviet Union moved its tanks against the unarmed population of Hungary who were seeking freedom and opened fire upon crowds of men, women, children, and Red Cross volunteers, killing 32,000; and
Whereas, since the erection of the illegal Berlin Wall in 1961-a concrete structure nearly 200 miles long and known among the Berliners as the Wall of Death-some 300 people have died attempting to reach freedom over it; and

Whereas, on December 17, 1970, 45 to 200 unarmed Polish workers were killed by army and police troops when they poured into the streets of Gdansk to protest food shortages; and

Whereas, on February 12, 1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was arrested by the Soviet government, stripped of his citizenship, and exiled with his family because of his stand against Stalin; and

Furthermore, the Soviet Union has in fact violated the letter and the spirit of the human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki accords and has done so with little or no reprisals from the West; and

Whereas, by the end of 1975, the Soviet regime had refused Andrei Sakharov permission to travel to Oslo to receive his Nobel Peace Prize; imprisoned Soviet painter Boris Mukhametsin for five years in a labor camp merely for his possession of a copy of Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago; sent two Soviet ships per week to Luanda, Angola, carrying weapons for the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), supported and trained by the Soviets; continued strict emigration restrictions; and maintained KGB involvement in the training, funding, and supplying of weapons to international terrorist groups such as the Japanese Red Army and the German-based Baader Meinhof gang; and

Whereas, the Soviet-backed Communist government in Angola has murdered more than 70,000 women and children; and
Whereas, Soviet adventurism in Afghanistan and wars by proxy in Africa, Central America, and now Poland show the lack of complicity with the policy of nonintervention as defined by the Helsinki accords; and

Whereas, the growing Soviet-bloc debt to the West, currently close to $80 billion, and the one-sided flow of advanced technology from the West to the Soviet bloc show how the Soviets give definition to the Helsinki provision on "economic cooperation"; and

Whereas, the Soviet client state of Fidel Castro in Cuba holds more than 20,000 political prisoners, which, as a percentage of the total population, is the highest concentration of political prisoners in the world; and

Whereas, the Soviet-supported leftist terrorist offensive in El Salvador resulted in the deaths of 10,700 persons between January and September of 1981; and

Whereas, the Soviet Union has continued unabated to wage psychopolitical, economic, and tactical warfare, including well-substantiated uses of mass chemical, biological, neotechnological as well as conventional warfare against the free peoples of the earth, and has continued to use prison psychiatry and the forced administration of neuroleptic drugs as a means of controlling its civilian population; and

Whereas, the Soviets continue to jam the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe broadcasts as well as intensifying their disinformation <1> campaigns through the media with the willful intent of destroying every last vestige of freedom on this planet; and

Whereas, on December 13, 1981, martial law and political repression began in Poland, with the support and cooperation of the Soviet Union, where at least 100 have been killed and thousands held in makeshift internment camps; and

Whereas, the peoples of these nations did not vote to come under jurisdiction of the world totalitarian movement that presently holds the Russians, the Chinese, the East Europeans, Africans, and Latin Americans in bondage and slavery; and

Whereas, on at least three occasions, namely in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and now Poland, the people have actively demonstrated that they do not wish to be under Soviet domination; and

Whereas, the United States and Western European leaders have continued, in the face of these protests, to aid and abet the Soviet leadership by supplying them with advanced technology, foodstuffs, and money by which the Politburo has continued to subjugate the people under its domination; and
Whereas, these leaders have done nothing concrete to protest Soviet intervention wherever it occurs-under the pretext of abiding by the terms of the Yalta, Potsdam, and Helsinki agreements-and, in a posture of fearfulness, have continued to promote the untenable policies of both "détente" and "neutralism" for fear of upsetting delicate arms negotiations or causing the Soviet bloc to default on its $80 billion debt to the West;

Declaration

We, therefore, as representatives of the peoples of planet Earth, appealing to Almighty God to reveal the moral integrity of our intentions, and in the name and by the authority of the Flame of Life burning in the hearts of all citizens of the world, do solemnly publish and declare:

That those agreements signed at Yalta and Potsdam in 1945 and at Helsinki in 1975, by virtue of the blatant violations of the letter and the spirit of these agreements by the Soviet Union and the ignorance of these violations by the leaders of the free world, are hereby declared null and void; and
That the peoples of the nations of this earth are, and of right ought to be, free and independent of their oppressors; and

Therefore, it is high time that all the people of planet Earth be free to exercise and enjoy the human and divine rights won by the American people and guaranteed in the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution; and that those similarly stated rights set forth in the Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Nations Charter, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights be actively put into practice at once;

We, the undersigned, representing the forces of freedom worldwide, do hereby vow before the Lord God Almighty that we will support by any God-ordained means the citizens of any nation in their stand for personal, national, and planetary freedom as guaranteed in these documents by reason of the inextinguishable free will which remains the soul gift of their Creator; and

That to secure this inalienable freedom to self-determination for all, we will support them by sound action; for it is not in the words that men speak or the words that they write that the course of history is shaped or the higher evolution of man is secured, but in the quality and determination of their actions that support their words that their motive and their character appear.

Therefore, as divinely blessed individuals who comprise communities of free and independent states, the citizens of planet Earth have the right under their logical and God-ordained freedoms of religion, speech, assembly, and press to demand free elections and to call for a constitutional convention to found their nation's self-government under God; and

That in their exercise of these inalienable rights within the framework of Church and State, they may derive the protection of private property and individual enterprise in commerce and the professions; form alliances of their natural selection, including free associations for the protection of the sacred labor of their minds and hearts as well as their hands, in which they glorify God and serve their fellow citizens and respective countries; and establish militias to provide for the common defense; and

Therefore, in defense of these rights, we call for complete sanctions against the Soviet Union and all governments who oppress their own people or those of other states; and
For the support of this Declaration of International Interdependence of the Sons and Daughters of God, with a firm reliance on Almighty God and his heavenly hosts, we the undersigned mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor-ratified in action by our words and our deeds-to keep the flame of freedom burning in every nation and on the altar of every human heart. So help us God!

Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Edward Francis