Evening star., 1950-09-23
Stain Is Pan-Russian
In Same Sense Hitler
Was Pan-German
Repetition Of the Words
fighting Communism
Confuses World Issue
By Dorothy THOMPSON

Confuses World Issue
By Dorothy Thompson
It seems TO me that we con-
fuse rather than clarity the in
ternational picture by constant
repetition that we are fighting
communism" The fact is. !
think, that neither In Korea nor
anywhere else is the theological
struggle primary.
The concept of communism" as
popular ownership and control of
the primary means of production
does not describe the Russian
economic system, which would
horrify Karl Marx. Russia has an
absolutely ruthless system of
monopoly state capitalism in
which all economic evils attri-
buted to private capitalism at its
worst are aggravated and intensi-
ned; vast disparity between in
comes: unendurable exploitation
Of labor and detection of its
fruits to the boss-class; and the
imposition of a permanent and
inescapable proletarian status
upon the vast masses of the
nation.
The wealth of greater Russia
including land, resources, AND
labor. has been seized by an inner
CLIQUE Of political bosses under
the leadership of Stain (noW
significantly called "the great
whenever referred to by the men,
bers of his court) and the entire
economic, military and politica
apparatus is directed, not toward
the communication but toward the
classification of the world.
Stain Is Pan-Russian.-
Stain is not an internationalist
which assumption has always beer
implicit in communism. He is q
pan-Russian, in exactly the sense
that Hitler was a pan-German
He has turned the world Com
munist parties into instruments
not for the socializing of their own
countries, but for delivering them
as colonies to Russia; from being
agents of national revolution into
being agents of treason.
The Russian imperial strate-
gistS will never grant any Com
munist country the slightest meas
ure of independence or equality
And the new Russian empire i.
not based on community of faitf
but on far-reaching military ane
administrative measures. the sig
nificance of which Western lead
ers were remarkably slow to per
ceive. Wherever they have hat
the power the Russians, for in
stance, have taken measures tt
prevent new Communist state
from having common frontiers
By annexing Koenigsberg in Eas
Prussia. they outflank both Eas
Germany and Poland. BY forcin,
Czechoslovakia to give up tn,
small and economically insignif
icant territory of Carpatho'
Ukraine. they drove a Russian
wedge between Romania anc
Czechoslovakia and gained q
border on Hungary. BY annexing
Northern Bukovina and the Da-
nube islands, Russia further
strengthened her hold on Ro-
mania.
These partitions are not ex-
plicable from any theological
standpoint. All are for imperial
purposes. on the classical pat
tern. Russia will certainly par
tition China. by creating "auton-
omouS republics" in Sinkiang
Outer Mongolia, and Manchuria
driving China within the ole
great wall" and thereby shorten
ing RusSia's inner Asian from.
tier by more than 5000 miles. Il
Mao Tse-Tung co-operates he i.
not a Communist but a traitor.
COlonizing Seized Areas.
Russia is colonizing the area!
she abSorbs. The inhabitants Of
border countries are being sys.
tematically deported to far-of
Soviet areas. and Russians beine
settled in their places, while vas
numbers of Chinese taken init
Russia as laborers are being Rus,
sif1ed. These deportations and ab
sorptions are not theological.
They are part and parcel of ,
Pan-Russiflcation plan.
Economically, Russia Is usin,
every device of imperialist exploi
tation. forcing her Communis
colonies. for instance, to yielt
basic industries to Russian contro
through transference of a votin,
majority of shares.
And inside the U. S. S. R. the Rus
sian people are not being sold
communism but hatred of thu
'SoO aAAA q 4I1dSIC1 -IdCt superior
1ty complex surprising Hitler's.
1t seems to me that we do no
begin sufficiently to exploit thes'
obvious facts. BY repeatedly de
nouncing Communists" we con
tinue to support the myth of Rus
sia as "the vanguard of the peo
pies struggle for justice" which
dazzles beclouded eyes. Russia i
the destroyer of nations, and tha
Is what she and her agents shoul,
be called.
A political offensive should ain
to split the Communist partie
Of the world. and to encourag
the diSsidents within them. Fo
these exist, as the constant purge
show.
And this, incidentally, is wha
the Politburo fears most of all
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