The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
n. STORMING THE SOCIALIST PEACE
FORTRESS

'pEACE, freedom, land and bread" that was the
of Lenin with which they began the struggle against
imperialist war in their country In possession
of political power, supported by the armed prole-
tartan dictatorship the victorious October Revolu-
ton in 1917 realized these four demands. The
ending of the war between Russia and Germany
led the way to the ending of the World War.
The young Soviet government, the first workers
and peasants government of the world brought
about peace; it tore up all the imperialst treaties
of the tsarist hangmen and put end to secret
diplomacy. The Soviet government gave the peoples
which had been oppressed by tsarism fo1 centuries,
such the Finns Esthonians and Poles, their
national independence and solved the national ques-
ton within its own frontiers by the creation of
Federative Soviet Republic in which hundreds of
nationalities were united peacefully on an equal
basis. National oppression, this invariable
stituent of imperialist war; was done away with for
one hundred and sixty million people. The Soviet
government voluntarily gave up all the tsarst OPP
pressive claims against the weak peoples as also
against China, Persia, Afghanistan and Turkey.
The century-old hereditary enmlty between Russia
and its neighbors was liqudated by the Soviet
government without trace.
From the first day of its existence the Soviet
government had only aim to carry through
socialist construction in peace and thereby to be
able TO raise the economic and cultural position Of
the toilers to hitherto unknown level For sixteen
years, the Soviet government has succeeded in
carrying out this policy against world of enemies.
The conquest of political power by the Russian
prolearat denoted the first breach in the capital
ist structure. The first breach in the imperialist
world system. World capital lost the loans granted
to tsarism, it lost one of its best sources of
ploitation one-sixtn of the GLOBE it lost the
Caucasian oil fields and Siberian gold fields. Did
not the Russian workers and peasants dare to dem
onstrate practically to the tolers of the whole
world that not only could get along without
capitalists and big landlords, but also that
could live still better than before? Were they
the only who able to report an unpre-
cedented economic upsurge the complete liquida-
ton of unemployment unrestricted political free
dom and undreamed of possibilities for further ada
in the future, at moment in which fifty
million toiers in the capitalist countries had been
thrown on to the street? Did not the example
of the october Revolution inspire the millions of
colonial slaves and national minorities to tripy
enhanced struggle against the imperialist oppres-
sors? Was not the existence of the Soviet Union,
which rallied round it an ever wider strata of
toers and enlightened intelectuas in all countries
bound to become a perpetual deadly menace to the
existence of the bourgeois social order? Did not the
issue here lie in the struggle between two systems
the bankrupt, decaying, murderous capitalist sys-
tenn and the rising socialist system bringing peace,
work and bread? Stain, the successor to Lenin
declared:
e. the contradiction between the capitalist
world and the U.S.SR lays bare to the very
roots all the contradictions capitalism and gathers
them up into one knot, making of them question
of life and death for the capitalist system itself y
Hence the tendency to adventurist assaults on
the U.S.SR and to intervention, tendency which
is bound to be strengthened as result of the
developing economic crisis
81 Stain, "Leninism," Vol. II Political Report
to The Sixteenth Congress of the C.PSU"
Ito Be Contnued)