Evening star., 1951-08-07
Hate, Peace and the KremIin

The Soviet t-directed two-week "peace feSti-
vap' that has just begun in East Berlin should
serve to deflate recent speculation about the
possibility that the Krernlin-which has started
once again to beat the propaganda drums for a
hve-power conference-may shift soon to policy
OF sweet reaSonableness designed to ease inter-
national tensions with less hostile Communist
attitude toward the Western World. go
For the "peace festival" as unfolded thus
far. suggests that all such speculation is little
more than the figment of wishful imaginations.
If anything what is being staged in East Berlin
seems to exceed in virulence similar shows in
the past. At any rate, it certainly Is living up
to the Red totalitarian rule proclaimed by Lenin
in 1923 when he declared to his Bolshevks,
I'VE must hate-hatred is the basis of commu-
nism. Children must be taught to hate"
To that end, employing the technique Of
the colossal lie in spirit of wild abandon, the
Kremlin, operating through its puppets behind
the Iron Curtain, has brought scores of thou
sands Of blue-shirted youngsters to East Berlin
for direct exposure to frenzied oratory and
propaganda aimed at poisoning their minds
and filling them with the greatest possible degree
of hostility toward the United States and the
free world in general. Thus. while depicting
Stain as gentle, sanity man and the Soviet
Union as the peace-loving home of all that is
good and beautiful, the "festivap'-in placards
and speeches-has been pouring out torrents
of venom against our "warmongering" free world.
Above everything, it has been sparing no effort,
no matter how vile, to libel our own country as
a monstrous, blood-d -drenched evil that should
be scorned, hated and regarded as an enSlaving
force to be liquidated.
All this, because of its very excessiveness.
conceivably may boomerang against the insti-
gators and directors of the peace festival" But
it is so reminiscent Of the Nazis-and the Nazis
were so successful with the same sort of thing
that its possible significance ought not to be
underestimated. In a potential sense at least,
the huge numbers of youths now taking part
in this show-uniformed young men and women
in the process of Communist indoctrination-are
fanatics in the making, being trained to he'll
Stain instead of Hitler. Adolescents are i'm
pressionable. Boys and girls in their formative
years can be regimented into fixed ways of
thinking and into zealotry They can be made
to believe that lies are truths and that given
cause, even If others know it to be bad, is good
Thus, If the ones now crowding East Berlin
mature in the way that the Kremn is trying
to make them mature, they can become tough
totalitarian tools of Soviet policy.
In any event, whether it succeeds or fails
in its purpose, the Red 'peace festival" is faith
fully abiding by Lenin's dictum of 1928 Nobody
should be particularly surprised by this. The
dictum, after ALL is one of the basic rules that
the Kremlin, even when it wears a smiling face,
follows in everything it does within its empire.
The first volumes Of the new Soviet encyclopedia,
for example, are animated by it, and so is the
official manual for Russia's teachers. It can be
summed up quite simply: It is the principle
or lack Of principle-of constantly using hate
melting lies as key weapon Of subversion and
aggression.
Not until the men Of the Kremlin abandon
this weapon can the free world hope to arrive
at lve-and-let-live agreement with them. As
long as they continue to employ it-as they are
doing now in East Berlin-the rest Of us will
be naive to expect them to be reasonable or
genuinely peace-minded, The hate they are
spewing forth In all parts of the globe speaks for
itself as measure of their sincerity in now
calling upon President Truman for fve-power
treaty of friendship.