The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-02-18

Joseph Stain was elected depu
ty 20 the Supreme Soviet BY q 100
per cent vote. There was no other
candidate. There was no opposition.
There was not even the possibility
OF voting against him or his poll
cles. In fact, there was no opposi-
ton to any candidate in any part OF
the country. II Is forbidden.
That IN Soviet Russia Is called
democracy. II is curious concept,
because when the government Is
sues a single list Of candidates,
when opposition is prohibited. how
can he people express their opin.
Ions9 THIS is not an election; II Is
an ordered affirmation. The Com
munists make a point Of unity-but
every despotism is and always has
been based upon involuntary unity.
Democracy does not involve unity.
II is the free expression OF he VIII
of the people on political questions.
The rights OF the opposition are as
fully protected by law as the rights
OF those in power. The recent cleo
tons in Russia were by any defini-
ton not q democratic procedure;
they we're confirmation OF dicta-
torship and despotism.
Stains speech to his constituent
cy represented a reassertion OF Boil
sheyism. Russia won the war, not
because Russia was defended by
Great Britain and The United Statas
and such allies as Poland ana
France, as long as they could. not
because the United States gave
Soviet Russia $40. 800, 0OO,O 900 In lend
lease. not because Of the atomic
bomh-but only because OF BolsheV-
ism.
Stain said:
NOW victory means. frs: OF all.
that our Soviet social system mas
won, that the Soviet social system
has successfully stood the test In
the fire OF war and has proved Us
complete vitality" =.
Not q word about the United
Nations, about China's outstanding
sacrifices, about the underground
In every conquered country!
Again, he said:
zone should no. forget that the
Red army Is that same army which
routed completely the German ar
my-the terror OF all the armies OF
peace-loving states.
Eisenhower. Montgomery, Patton
Macarthur played no part In his
war: Their names are not men
toned. Even Roosevelt's name 10
not mentioned. Only the Red army
won the war. Nothing is said about
the American and British air forces
that KEEP. hammering away at the
Germans: nothing is said about the
African campaign. the Italian cam
pa,yn. the battle OF the Bulge. None
OF these occurred. Only this Is noted
by Stain:
This Is Understandable after the
victories at Moscow and Stalingrad.
and OF course .Kursk and Belgorod,
Kiev and Mirovograd, Mlnsk and
Bobruisk, Leningrad and Tallin on
the Vistula and Niemen, the Dan
ube and the Oder. at Vienna and
Berlin. After all this 1t Is tmpos-
sible not to recognize that the Red
army is q first-class army. which
could teach others quite lot"
So now we know the chivalry and
courtesy and truthfulness OF our
ally. Comrade Stain, who abolished
the Comintern when he needed our
aid and gives us not mention when
the joint-enterprise has ended. This
Is the same Stain who hid Togliat-
u, Thorez, Dimitrov, and the Com
munists Of every country during
the war and sent them forth to work
their disorders when the war ended.
This Is the same Stain who spoke
so feelingly about the small nations
during the war and gobbles them
up now that II is over.
In his speech, Stain describes
the enemy countries thus:
".. 1t mus. be kept In mind that
the main Fascist states Germany,
Japan and Italy-before attacking
the Allied countries had abolished
at home the last remnants OF the
bourgeois democratic liberties, had
esta blished cruel terrorist regime,
had trampled under foot the princi-
pies Of sovereignty and freedom OF
the small nations, declared the poll
cy Of seizure OF other peoples lands
as their own policy. declared for