The daily worker., 1934-09-04
Finland>>> Imberialist Base
For Attack on Soviet Union

must seriously stress the fact that
Finland's fascist bourgeoisie also
has its own imperiaHstic designs
which are in harmony with the in
tervention plans of the imperialist
bandits. The Finnish faScists are
greatly interested in Soviet Karelia.
They would like to grab its colossal
forests and other natural resources.
The magnificent White Sea canal
that was completed last year in
Karelia has greatly spurred these
aspirations. The extreme fascist
elements that are most open in pro-
voking war against the Soviets
openly speak in their papers about
conquering Soviet Karelia. The wild
est of them speak of extending the
borders of Finland to the Urals.
They have gone so far as to print
and circulate abroad postcard-sized
maps of Finland, showing its bord-
ers at the Urals. This war provo
cation is being carried on with eX-
tremely fragrant nationalist incite-
ment, under the slogan of 'liberating
kindred nations"
War Preparations
This nationalist propaganda is ac-
companied by feverish war prepara-
tions. Within the past few years
the war budget has increased over
100 per cent. Aviation fields that
are purely military in nature are
being built in al parts of the coun-
try, especially on the Soviet border,
together with highways and strate-
gic railways. A cannon factory is
being erected in great haste at Tam
merfors. All Large and small indus
trial plants have been modified to
produce war supplies Immediately
on the outbreak of war. The army
has been reorganized on a regional
basis. AS result it can be mobil-
lied more rapidly and it is much
easier to use the 100000 men in the
fascist Defense Guard, which was
recently made reserve of the army.
The womens organization of the
Defense Guard, composed of more
than 10000 members, and the girls
organization of 1000 are practising
actively. At the end of last year
and during this entire year the
newspapers and radio have system
atically circulated horror stories
about the Bolshevik's ghost planes
that fly over Finland at night, about
poisoning and espionage practised
by Communist agents sent from
Moscow. These are the methods
by which the bourgeoisie has tried
to arouse mass hatred against the
Soviet Union and create the neces-
sary war psychology.
Social Democracy Helps
The bourgeoisie demands that So
cial Democracy also support and
participate actively in carrying out
these policies. Social Democracy
has carried out this assignment by
voting for war appropriations in
parliament, by proposing the length
ening of compulsory military serv-
ice and by proposing that the De-
fenSe Guard be made a reserve of
the army. 1t has willingly appro-
priated funds for building strategic
roads, airplanes, warship docks, ETC.
Through its parliamentary repre-
sentatives it has participated in the
management of war supply factories
1t has continually made the workers
more sympathetic to the war plans
of the capitalists. Its newspapers
express concern about the equip
ment of the army, the condition Of
airplanes and warships, the obtain
ing of new airplanes, ETC., allegedly
in the interests of the soldiers. II
has pledged itself to defend the
fatherland" in case of war, even re-
jecting the instructions of the Sec
ond International on this question
1t competes with bourgeoisie papers
in spreading national chauvinism
and slandering the Soviet Union. II
likens the proletarian dictatorship
in the Soviet Union with Mussolini's
and Hitler's fascist dictatorship fol
the big bourgeoisie, intending there.
by to make the workers hate the
Soviet Union. 1t speaks of defend.