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Doctor arrested; Dies in Military Custody
Washington Post, November 9, 1984
Maybe it was the improbability of it all that tipped them off.
But for the far-right generals who have ruled this nation of 3 million people for the past 11 years, the small farming village of hundreds of people with Russian surnames, happy after-work gatherings at the local Maximo Gorki Cultural Center and a couple of old hunting rifles smelled of a plot confirming their worst fears: The Bolsheviks had infiltrated their country. ...
On the face of it, San Javier, a town of 1,500 people along the banks of the languid Uruguay River near the western border with Argentina, would appear to be an unlikely place for a Moscow-directed conspiracy. Residents say their only contact with the Soviet Union was the occasional presence of embassy officials at cultural events. The visits stopped a decade ago, although the Soviet Union retains diplomatic ties with the government in Montevideo.
San Javier was founded in 1913 by 750 religious dissidents fro a breakaway sect of the Orthodox Church called the New Israel Community, who fled czarist Russia in search of religious freedom and fertile land. ...
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Uruguay's Army Hunts Communists In Small Town Settled by Russians
Doctor arrested; Dies in Military Custody
Washington Post, November 9, 1984
Maybe it was the improbability of it all that tipped them off.
But for the far-right generals who have ruled this nation of 3 million people for the past 11 years, the small farming village of hundreds of people with Russian surnames, happy after-work gatherings at the local Maximo Gorki Cultural Center and a couple of old hunting rifles smelled of a plot confirming their worst fears: The Bolsheviks had infiltrated their country. ...
On the face of it, San Javier, a town of 1,500 people along the banks of the languid Uruguay River near the western border with Argentina, would appear to be an unlikely place for a Moscow-directed conspiracy. Residents say their only contact with the Soviet Union was the occasional presence of embassy officials at cultural events. The visits stopped a decade ago, although the Soviet Union retains diplomatic ties with the government in Montevideo.
San Javier was founded in 1913 by 750 religious dissidents fro a breakaway sect of the Orthodox Church called the New Israel Community, who fled czarist Russia in search of religious freedom and fertile land. ...
Doctor arrested; Dies in Military Custody
Washington Post, November 9, 1984
Maybe it was the improbability of it all that tipped them off.
But for the far-right generals who have ruled this nation of 3 million people for the past 11 years, the small farming village of hundreds of people with Russian surnames, happy after-work gatherings at the local Maximo Gorki Cultural Center and a couple of old hunting rifles smelled of a plot confirming their worst fears: The Bolsheviks had infiltrated their country. ...
On the face of it, San Javier, a town of 1,500 people along the banks of the languid Uruguay River near the western border with Argentina, would appear to be an unlikely place for a Moscow-directed conspiracy. Residents say their only contact with the Soviet Union was the occasional presence of embassy officials at cultural events. The visits stopped a decade ago, although the Soviet Union retains diplomatic ties with the government in Montevideo.
San Javier was founded in 1913 by 750 religious dissidents fro a breakaway sect of the Orthodox Church called the New Israel Community, who fled czarist Russia in search of religious freedom and fertile land. ...
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Uruguay’s Army Hunts Communists
In Small Town Settled by Russians
Doctor Arrested; Dies in Military Custody
By Martin Andersen
Spat Ti nen at
‘SAN JAVIER, Uruguay—Maybe
it was the improbabilty of it all that
tipped them off.
But for the far-right generals
‘who have ruled this nation of 3 milk
lion people for the past 11 years,
the small farming village of hun:
reds of people with Russian sur-
‘names, happy after-work gatherings
at the local Maximo Gorkd Cultural
Center and a couple of old hunting
rifles smelled of a plot confirming
their worst fears: The Bolsheviks
had infiltrated the country,
For the residents of San Javier,
hhowever, the military's suspicions
have been peculiarly unfair, and
sometimes deadly. Earlier this year
Viadmir Roslk, a local doctor who
had studied medicine on a scholar-
ship in Moscow, died while in mil-
itary custody. An autopsy showed
evidence of torture, and two off-
cers were convicted of “involuntary
mapslugiter
Recently sbout_210 people of
Russian descent filed 2 race dis-
crimination complaint in the Su-
preme Court against the military
government, charging that the
exsy coexistence with the rest of
the’ country began to come apart.
‘That year Uruguay's long ration
af democratic rule was broken by 4
fultary backed coup that supported
the frat of series of snticomm-
nist presidents Flloming the coop,
the Uruguayan Communist Party
was declared egal and the fone
Babi military began fo suspect the
Biue-yed, fairhaired people of San
Javier of subversive activities.
Since 1978, residents sa, the
people of San Javier have bees su
JPeted toa steady stream of hares.
ment, discrimination and physi
abuse by the authorities, Arvest,
ialing aod torture of lest peopl,
Which began the year ofthe coup,
tere stepped up between 1976 and
W980" Recsiansurnamed farmers
found their access to. government
Credit and wellare ct of
“The, people of San Javier have
suffered mative detentions, cont
Sal ransacking of ther homes by mi
itary commandos looking foc tre,
for its gnuchos or South American andthe ntadtin e tpocaat ne
cowboy. tice patrols" sid Alberto Zuma
“as rasao—the Russians—ol San human rights activa and Bianco
Javier aeived four veare before the Party presenta caida
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government, charging, that the bring with them a penchant fer oo Masimn Gant Center noe occ
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ggentina, would appear to be an un- CoOperative farming gave way to reported in full by El Telegrafo,
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conspiracy, Residents cay telson bormin Uruguay married into native lagron at fe Cork center it sed
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the occasional presence of embassy Catholicism, ‘out by a communist front organiza-
ticals at cutural eventa The we. By. the early 1970s lite re- on The newpaper iad aa ae
iis stopped a decade ago; although mained of the immigrant pas: the io transmitters aed “abundant So.
the Soviet Union retains dplomage Maximo Gorky’ Cultural Center, viet hterature~all of subverive
ties with the government in Mon: Tamed after the famous Russa character were fund inthe avec,
tevin, rowel; the celebration of old Rus: Interviews with more than td
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by 750 religious decides tom a called Kali, anda few dozen ch guis's diferent tend Ite antes
Breakaway sect of the Orthodor deny people who hed onto te Rus- the town, one of several cari ot
Church called the New lsat! Come San unglage and attended the New in recent years, ncededststouoe
muni, who ed cravat Rasaa hy srael church Sng entire neighborhoods wth
Search ofreligios freedom and fer- And, in 8 country where it is armored persoand carters and ok
tile land. quite common to see ancient cars umns of troops with snarling dogs,
The 300 faies led by religious creaking dawn dusty county roads, while helicopters hovered asore,
leader Basilo Lubkov who began & few people traveled by coro bal. . the rendente ssi’ Moor. opie
the settlement here, soon put a dis- co, a horse-drawn, old-world-style were dragged out of their homes,
Unctve stamp on their communty the slow being prodded at bayonet
in the mda of the reaontabed however, Sen vier pane