The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-14
Comment On
World Events

The Communist peace move
ment" has been thoroughly expos
ed as a fake but the worldwide
longing for peace is so strong that
people in all nations fool them
selves into believing that the move
ment is the genuine article. Hypno-
tized by the word "peace" they dc
not care to find out who or what
is behind the "peace movement.
The answer may be found in Of
ficial Soviet publications. The jour
nal Bolshevik says: Powerful
forces of the movement Of parts
ans Of peace, uniting men Of gooc
will on our entire globe, are or
ganizing themselves and rallyine
round the Soviet Union. Such ar
organized movement Of millions Of
people is unprecedented in history
About half billion people have al
ready signed the Stockholm ap.
peal"
In other words, the Soviet Union
is behind the peace movement anC
the Stockholm appeal. Among the
millions who have signed this ap-
peal are the entire populations lin
Guiding the infants) of the USSR
China and the other satellites.
Why does the Soviet Union pro
mote the peace movement? Not be-
cause it is pacifist for according
to the Soviets "pacifism is a bour-
geous movement opposing all wars
while the USSR approves of g
number of wars termed "just"
e. g., war for the Liberation Of the
people from capitalist slavery"
According to the issue of Boil
shevik quoted above, the USSR adj
mits only a very special kind OF
peace. The journal says: peace
and Communism are indivisible
This thought, this feeling permeat-
ed the whole work of the recent
conference Of partisans Of peace in
Moscow" As a further character
ization Of the peace meant it might
be mentioned that the conference
sent Flaming greetings" to such
partisans of peace as are at pre-
sent in the prisons Of Greece, India,
Italy, France and other capitalist
countries" and who with rifles and
machine guns in their hands had
attempted to liberate these coun-
tries from capitalism and to turn
them Communist.
After this there should be no
doubt that in Bolshevik language
to struggle for peace means to
struggle for communism. There
fore everyone who takes part in
Communist-sponsored peace con-
crosses or signs appeals issued by
them thereby engages in the strug-
gle for communism.
In the struggle for peace" ii. e.,
communism) the Soviet Union Is
assisted by the Communist parties
in the capitalist countries. "The
Communist and workers parties in
all countries march in the first
ranks of the fighters for peace, y
says the Soviet paper Trud (Nov,
4, 1850. Furthermore, by means of
able propaganda and the confusion
of conceptions, the Communist par
ties have managed to attract to the
movement a considerable number
of gullible people, mainly from the
ranks of the non-Communist work
ers' parties.
"The Bolshevik party has had to
change its tactics, its methods of
combat, to shift from legal forms
to illegal ones, to compromise, to
make agreements with other par
ties, other movements, to dodge, to
retreat in order to advance more
successfully later. Lenin teaches
the Communist parties skillfully to
utilize these diversified tactical
forms, proceeding from the con-
crete circumstances of the class
struggle in every country, from the
concrete situation" (Trud, Nov. 4,
1850.
do not have the fair chance for the