UN General Assembly
1952

74. The Soviet Union takes an entirely different view of the United Nations. Mr. Malenkov, Deputy Premier of the USSR, said on 5 October 1952: “The USSR Government attaches great importance to the United Nations, believing that it can be an important means for maintaining peace. At the present time, however, the United States is turning the United Nations, which, under the Charter should be an organ of international co-operation, into an organ of its dictatorial war-mongering policy, and is using the Organization to cover up its acts of aggression. Nevertheless, in spite of the great difficulties caused by the voting machine which the United States has instituted in the United Nations, the Soviet Union defends its policy of peace before the United Nations, and strives to ensure the adoption of realistic proposals corresponding to the needs of the present international situation and aimed at curbing the forces of aggression, preventing a new war and bringing about a cessation of hostilities where they already exist.”