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second
reason has already been mentioned, namely mutual
6istrust engendered by the contrast between our
social systems. The third reason is the extreme
dsorganization of the world market and the extreme
instability of international and national economic
conditions When in Germany huge firms like the
Shines Company collapse, the matter is regarded
as quite in order. When hundreds of big firms re-
Gently collapsed in Japan, the event was regarded
as normal phenomenon If, however. foreign
concession holder in our country does not happen
to make three-fold profit right away, the fact
serves very well proof of lack of vitality in the
economic system of the Soviet Union.
The fifteenth question:
what are the tasks of the Soviet Govern
ment in the matter of foreign policy?"
Our first task is the preservation and prolonga-
ton Of peace We believe that share this task
with the working masses of the whole world. If
anybody asserts in the bourgeois press that por-
ton of our Party desires peace, while the other
portion wants war; we would advise you not to give
credence to the mputation. The effort to maintain
peace is founded upon the principles of system
as a workers and peasants State and is to US
law of social and cultural self preservation.
The sixteenth question is:
"Can the Soviet Union catch up with the
progressive capitalist countries, and within how
long,"
That we are making progress is proved by facts.
progress. That portion of the national income which
formerly went to the monarchy the nobility and the
bourgeoisie can now be used mainly for the develop
ment of productive forces and for raising the mate
rial and cultural level of the working The
centralized economic management creates gigantic
advantages Can catch up technically and cul-
turally with the captalistic countries and within
what period? This question cannot be answered
off hand especially in regard to the matter of time
The distance between and the leading capitalist
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of the proper exploitation in the first place. of the
means we have at home and then Of sources of help
abroad, which the international capital and goods
market-not, of course, grats-can open to us,
thereby year by year reducing this distance. Be-
fore answering the question of how long it will
take to catch up with the captalistic countries
should know what is going to happen to these
countries in the meanwhile.
They are not hating at /. particular spot and
waiting for us to overtake them. At the moment,
capitalist countries in Europe have about reached
their economic level of pre-war times. At the same
time, the fight for sales markets and of
material has again broken out in a more acute
form, e., the fight as thirteen years ago
led to the imperiast In the capitalist coun-
tries further promotion of the productive forces will
automatically entail fresh war, and the new war
will bring about revolution, first of all IN Europe
the United States still have a respite In general
the coming epoch will be epoch of tremendous
economic and social upheavas. 1t is difficult to
predict at what technical and cultural level the CAPT
taist countries will come to halt. One thing, how
ever can be sad Successful revolution, say in Ger
many or in England still more throughout
Europe, will in conjunction with Soviet system
and our natural wealth extraordinarily accelerate
in this country, also in Germany and England
and the whole of Europe, the development of pro-
ductive forces on a new, socialistic basis. Such
development of events would naturally hasten the
revolution in the United States and shorten the re-
spite which history has granted to it.
This result will be all the more surely and COM
pletely achieved we progress more successfully
IN the course of socialist development, without wait
ing passively for the proletarian revolution in
Europe and still less with folded arms for our rec
ognltion by capitalist America. To this task-our
advance along the path of socialistic construction
by the use OF our own resources-our greatest eff
forts devoted
Under Point II you ask: Might one saw that
the living church works hand in hand with the gov
eminent?