Evening star., 1942-10-07
StoIin Statement Interpreted as Meaning
Russio Considers Fighting War Alone

War Alone
Russian peace alone. He Is say
ing in effect: If the Anglo
Americans do not come up to
scratch and really fight "the
Fascist gangsters" then Russia
will look out for herself.
In considering what obliga-
tions the Anglo American lead
ers may have given Russia 1t is
well to consider what obliga-
tions Russia took in return.
Russia took two: To stay in the
war and not make separate
peace, and to abandon any pro-
gram for the Communist revo-
luton in urope.
If Russia has to fight for all
major military purposes alone,
both Of these reciprocal obliga-
tions may fall into the waste
basket.
Charter "Timid, Equivocal."
The Anglo-American world
has up to now neither made a
major military offensive nor
major political offensive. The
political offensive has been the
timid and equivocal Atlantic
Charter, which was still born.
Nevertheless, the Russians have
scrupulously fulfilled their politi-
cal obligations, as we'll as fighting
q war OF unexampled and even
reckless heroism. Everywhere in
the world Moscow has laid down
a line for the Communist party:
Support the war effort to the full
est. Everywhere the Communist
party has been against strikes and
against any showdown of working
effort. In India, the Communist
party, which was previously sup
porting Gandhi, has stood with
the British against the sabotage
activities of Gandhi-while Amer
ican liberals" have been giving
him every possible aid and COM
fort.
But the Russians have not for
gotten Munich; 1t has not passed
unobserved by them that influ-
ential persons in this country
controlling powerful press still
apparently consider Russia as
enemy number one. Although I
am absolutely convinced that no
political considerations whatso-
ever but purely military questions
absorb the attention of the An
glo- American commands, Russia
may not be so sure. The Rus
sions know that armies are in the
long run the instruments of DO
ntlcal policies.
The record shows that Stain
abandoned the idea of the Com
munist revolution as an instru-
ment of war policy and probably
willingly. A Communist revolu-
ton in Europe might upset
Stains attempts to consolidate
the revolution in Russia along
more conservative lines. But if
Stain believes that Russia must
fight alone, then he has a power
full card to play.
For the German European
masses are Socialist. DR.. Goeb-
bels had to precede Hitler with
an extreme left wing speech to
which far too little attention was
paid here.
And If tomorrow Stain should
suddenly raise the banner, work
men, soldiers and peasants of
Europe unite for the all-European
union of Socialist and, Soviet re-
publics against the Fascist gang
sters and their Anglo-American
stooges," he would have some
thing.
Not Anti Communist.
And the German Army is not
anti-Communist. The German
Army is disinterested politically.
And the Russians have never
been so politically unastute as to
announce as we have done in the
Atlantic Charter the unilateral
disarmament of Germany.
The Russians know that this
war is revolutionary war. They
know that the German Army and
the Nazi leadership are not neces-
sarily the same thing. They Judge
armies by what they are fighting
for.
There is more than one way to
bring down Hitler.
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