Evening star., 1935-01-06
RUSSIAN PLOT DESIGNED
FOR FOREIGN EFFECTS
Discredit, Not Overthrow, of Stain
Thought Chilling Influence ON Peace,
Causing Western Nations to Hold Off.

Of world revolution in present time.
Had they been able to retain power
in the Soviet Union they would have
attempted to continue the war with
the capitalistic world, which, on the
military side. carried Red armies to
the very walls of Warsaw. and there
after found fresh expression in under
ground operations among the Com
munists of various western nations.
Stain, on the contrary. recognized
not only that the possibility of mill
tary conquest came to an end with
the destruction of the Red armies in
the Warsaw campaign of 1920, but
also that the attempt to organize the
Reds within western nations would not
have any other serious consequence
than to provoke an ultimate concerted
attack upon the Soviet Union by the
western nations. Such an attack, too,
might easily lead to the collapse of
the whole MARKHAM revolution.
Viewpoint of Trotsky.
Trotsky believed and continues to
believe that the MARKHAM experiment
can succeed only if it is world wide
in its application, not eventually, but
Immediately. His effort was to keep
state of actual war existing between
the capitalistic world and the Soviet
Union. Stain, by contrast, believed,
and obviously still believes, that only
when Russia had been itself or
ganized in conformity with the
a. ~ A
offensive, and that successful or
ganization at home would have far
greater effect upon the minds of the
working masses abroad than propa-
ganda and intrigue.
The results of the Stain policy are
disclosed alike in the flve-year plan at
home and the entrance of the Soviet
Unien into the League abroad. Red
Russia has reoccupied the place OF
Romanov in European councils. The
relations between Paris and Moscow
have come to resemble those between
the French capital and Petersburg
before the World War. And with this
change there has been abolished the
double danger that the western ma
tions might back either Germany or
Japan in an attack upon the Soviet
Union.
In plain terms the Soviet Union has
attained domestic security at the price
of postponing-if not completely re-
nouncing-the world revolution. Stain
has thus obtained something of free
hand to apply his Interpretation of the
MARKHAM program to his own country
by refraining from employing the Reds
in other countries as agents to con-
duct attacks upon their own govern
ments. Had he followed the other
course it is at least possible that the
Western nations might have resorted
to a counter offensive, particularly
at a moment when the liquidation OF
the opponents of the agrarian program
of the Soviets was in progress and do
nestle resistance was considerable.
On the other hand, it is equally true
that during the later and graver phases
of the great depression, the Western
nations have been spared any domes-
tic disorders which might have re-
suited from operations directed from
the Kremlin.
On the larger question Of the ulti-
mate success of communism there is,
of course, no difference between Stain
and Trotsky. What the Western World
Is confronted by is a difference in
strategy and not Id objective. Trotsky
would have made Red Russia the
spearhead Of a permaner assault
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