No negotiations on the transfer of Southern Kuriles to Japan!

Statement of the Secretariat of the CC AUCPB

The leadership of the Russian Federation has started the next negotiations with Japan on the ownership of the four southern Kuril Islands - Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan and Habomai and declared its readiness to transfer the islands of Shikotan and Habomai to Japan.

At a meeting in Singapore on November 14, 2018, Russian President Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Abe agreed to step up Russian-Japanese negotiations on a peace treaty based on a joint declaration of October 19, 1956.

“... We resumed dialogue with our Japanese partners on the basis of the 1956 declaration. It says that the Soviet Union is ready to transfer the two southern islands of Japan after signing a peace treaty ”(Shikotan and Habomai - our note), Putin said at a press conference following the talks in Singapore on November 15, 2018.

As follows from the Singapore statement by the President of the Russian Federation Putin, the leadership of the Russian Federation intends to transfer to Japan the Small Kuril ridge (Shikotan and Habomai), which consists of more than 20 islands and small archipelagoes.

Japan insists on the transfer to it of all four islands of the southern Kuril ridge - all at once or according to the formula “two plus alpha”, that is, it receives the islands of Shikotan and Habomai and at the same time conducts negotiations on Kunashir and Iturup. In return for the southern Kuriles, the Japanese "promise" that Russian citizens "may remain" on the islands after their transfer under the sovereignty of Japan, that Japan "will refuse" the requirement of Russia to pay "compensation" to Japan and Japanese citizens for the "post-war occupation of the islands" and t .P.

Thus, there is a cynical bargaining of national interests and the security of Russia.

The current "rulers" of Russia, beginning with Gorbachev and up to Putin, have more than once given up the territory of Russia, which has both economic and military-strategic importance, to foreign states. In 1990, Gorbachev and Shevardnadze transferred to the US 46.3 thousand square kilometers of territory in the Bering Sea. Russia has not forgotten that Putin’s signature is on the 2004 documents on the transfer of islands to China along the Amur River with a total area of ​​337 square kilometers, including the entire Tarabarov and half of the Big Ussuri Island in the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri rivers, which brought the border closer to the largest city of the Far East - Khabarovsk. In 2011, Medvedev and Putin presented Norway (a NATO country) with a huge territory in the Barents Sea covering an area of ​​90 thousand square kilometers with rich oil, gas and fish resources.

What is this Soviet-Japanese declaration of October 19, 1956? This declaration was adopted by the voluntarist decision of Khrushchev. Article 9 of the Declaration stated that "the USSR, meeting the wishes of Japan and taking into account the interests of the Japanese state, agrees to the transfer of the Habomai Islands and Shikotan Islands to Japan, however, that the actual transfer of these islands to Japan will be made after the conclusion of a peace treaty."

But in 1960, the Soviet government in connection with the conclusion of the new Japanese-American military treaty, the point directed against the USSR and the PRC, on the basis of which the US military bases in Japan still exist have in effect, annulled these promises. It was reasonably stated that any territorial concessions to Japan would contribute to the expansion of the territory used by foreign troops, and that the issue of a territorial settlement with Japan was already resolved by the relevant international agreements that must be respected.

It is also important that the signing of the Khrushchev Declaration of 1956 and its ratification by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR were carried out in violation of the Constitutions of the USSR of 1936 (Art. 18) and the RSFSR of 1937 (Art. 16), since the consent of the RSFSR was required change its territory, which was not received.



The current leadership of the Russian Federation continues to frustrate the Japanese revenge-seekers.

On January 14th of this year, the first round of Russian-Japanese talks was held at the level of the foreign ministers of Russia and Japan. President Vladimir Putin will hold talks with Prime Minister Abe of Japan on January 22, who will arrive on a working visit to Russia at the invitation of Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin press service reports.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, the negotiations at the level of foreign ministers were “devoted to fulfilling the instructions of the President of Russia V.V. Putin and the Prime Minister of Japan, S. Abe, on the need to speed up work on a peace treaty on the basis of the Soviet-Japanese Declaration of 1956."

“... The current leaders of Japan and Russia, we believe, are determined to draw a line under this (“ territorial ”- our comment) question through our own efforts. The negotiations in Moscow were based precisely on this, ”commented the press service of the Japanese Foreign Ministry.

“Today we confirmed our readiness to work on the basis of the 1956 Declaration.” The decision of the “peace treaty” should be based on “the recognition by our Japanese neighbors of the results of the Second World War in full, including Russia's sovereignty over the South Kuril Islands,” said Russian Foreign Minister S.V. Lavrov.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation obviously does not get along with logic. Isn't the transfer of the Southern Kuriles to Japan a review of the outcome of the Second World War and the non-recognition of Russia's sovereignty over them? Why, then, these “talks”? .. The Russian Foreign Ministry suffices to declare that the Kuril Islands are Russian territory and there is nothing to discuss here.

All these negotiations mean nothing more than a review of the outcome of the Second World War, the rejection of its ancestral territories from Russia, the satisfaction of Japan’s territorial claims on Russian lands, and the betrayal of the country's national interests.

There is no "territorial problem" of the "northern territories", as Japan insists on, considering them to be "their own", does not exist. The South Kuril Islands are originally Russian lands and, as a result of the Second World War, they finally became part of the USSR together with the Northern Kuriles and Southern Sakhalin.

The Kuril Islands were first discovered and taken by the Russians even before the Japanese appeared on them and were incorporated into the Russian Empire in the second half of the 18th century. Japanese expansion in the southern Kuriles intensified since the beginning of the XIX century. Using the plight of Russia during the Crimean War (1853–1856) and threatening with war, Japan achieved the exclusion of the islands of Habomai, Shikotan, Kunashir and Iturup from Russia (Simodsk treatise from 1855). In 1875, tsarist diplomacy caused great damage to the interests of Russia, transferring all the Kuril Islands to Japan in exchange for the formal recognition of Russia's rights to Sakhalin, which in fact belonged to it.

As a result of the Japanese aggression during the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905, South Sakhalin was rejected from Russia.

Thus, the Kuril Islands and South Sakhalin passed from Russia to Japan as a result of Japanese expansion and aggression and are not originally Japanese territories.

The Kuril Islands are of strategic importance for the security of Russia, especially against the background of the growing aggressiveness of the United States, using Japan as a military-strategic base in the Asia-Pacific region. Japan has military bases, elements of a global missile defense system and US nuclear weapons.

The Kuril Islands provide Russia with direct access to the Pacific Ocean and serve as the basis for the country's defense against external aggression. Modern Russian anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems are deployed on the islands themselves.

Most interested in the Japanese-Russian deal are the United States of America, dreaming about plans to destroy Russia. Currently, the Sea of ​​Okhotsk is the inland sea of ​​Russia. The situation will radically change when Japan receives the South Kuril Islands: our Pacific Fleet will be locked up in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk and will be denied free access to the world's oceans.

The commander of US troops in Japan, Lieutenant-General Jeri Martinez, frankly stated that "the States have no plans to deploy armed forces in the Kuril Islands - AT THIS TIME." The question of whether such plans will appear in the United States in the future, you can not even ask.

Japan is in orbit of US influence, and all decisions will be made by Washington.

We must not forget the lessons of history. During the Second World War, the Kuril Islands served as the basis of Japanese aggression. According to the plans of the Japanese command, the Japanese armed forces stationed on South Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands were to participate in the seizure of North Sakhalin, Primorye and Kamchatka. During the events at Lake Hassan (1938) and at Khalkhin Gol (1939), these troops were on high alert.

All this was taken into account when adopting I.V. Stalin's decision to return the Kurils to the USSR. The agreement on this was reached at the Yalta Conference (February, 1944) of the leaders of the three powers - the USSR, the USA and Great Britain and enshrined in the Yalta Agreement on the Far East.

The Potsdam Declaration of the USA, Great Britain, and the PRC (July, 1945), to which the USSR joined on August 8, 1945, deprived Japan of its sovereignty over any territory outside the islands of Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku.

On September 2, Japan signed on the terms of the Yalta Agreement and the Potsdam Declaration an act of unconditional surrender. The Kuril Islands and South Sakhalin were returned to the USSR (South-Sakhalin Oblast of the RSFSR).

 In his address to the people on September 2, 1945, Stalin emphasized that “South Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands will withdraw to the Soviet Union and from now on they will serve not as a means of separating the Soviet Union from the ocean and as the base of the Japanese attack on our Far East, but as a direct connection of the Soviet Union with the ocean and the base of our country's defense against Japanese aggression. "

Thus, as a result of the defeat of militarist Japan, Russia regained what it had rejected, and this was reinforced by international legal agreements following the Second World War.

According to a survey, the citizens of Russia do not support the transfer of the Kuril Islands to Japan. On the island of Shikotan, there are 2.5 thousand Russians, on the island of Kunashir - about 8 thousand, on the island of Iturup - 1.8 thousand. According to the national composition, the majority of Russians live. The Japanese left the Kuril Islands in 1945

Russia's loss of the Kuril Islands will also lead to economic losses - a 200-mile zone, where there are rich fish reserves and minerals necessary for the industry. The promises of official Tokyo to compensate Russia's economic losses for the sake of concluding a “peace treaty” will not lead to anything good. We also cannot fail to take into account the statement of the head of the Japanese government about the preservation of sanctions against Russia "in connection with the problems of Ukraine and Crimea"

The leadership of the Russian Federation not only squanders Russian territory, but betrays and gives up its own citizens. All this is being done in the class interests of the Russian oligarchy, which hopes through a “territorial deal” to bargain for itself a more advantageous political and economic “collaboration” with Japan.

We support the protests of the Russian patriots that have swept the country against the transfer of the Russian Kuriles to Japan.

As is known, the power of a state is determined not only by the strength of its armed forces, but also by its economic potential. After the counter-revolutionary coup as a result of Russia's transition to capitalist rails, according to the latest data in terms of GDP, the economy of the Russian state turned out to be relegated to 11th place in the world. Its growth rates are still lagging behind the growth rates of our political opponents, and the current capitalist Russian economy has no prospects for improving the situation. Western countries, including Japan, have felt this, hence their increased audacity to put pressure on Russia. Therefore, we believe that only the revival of socialism and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics will provide Russia with guaranteed sovereignty and independence.

We demand an immediate end to any negotiations on the transfer of a part of the southern Kuril Ridge to Japan.

We demand an end to the “joint economic activity” of Japan in the South Kuril Islands.

We demand a denunciaion of the legislative level the Soviet-Japanese declaration of October 19, 1956.

We demand to restore the official celebration of September 3 - Victory Day over militarist Japan.

01.19.2019