UN General Assembly
1957

29. Is it not a fact that the age of capitalism has been an age of ceaseless warfare? And have not two world wars been provoked by the extreme aggravation of imperialistic contradictions between the capitalist Powers? Is not the recent case of the attack on Egypt by powerful imperialist nations for the purpose of colonialist plunder proof of this? Do not events in Oman indicate the same thing? 30. But another social system is in existence now — the socialist system, which decisively rejects warlike policies. War is no longer inevitable now because the existence of socialist States — a group of States covering a large part of the earth and representing powerful forces of public opinion throughout the world, which are vocal in their opposition to war — offers ample opportunities for preventing a new war and for peaceful coexistence.