Evening star., 1952-10-04
StoIin's S Latest Essay

As prelude to the Communist Party Con-
greSs opening tomorrow in Moscow Generalissmo
Stain has had published in the magazine Boil
shevik 50-page article whose turgid double talk
must be presumed to be significant because it
comes from him. However, only the Red totali-
tarians themSelves-the conspiratorial insiders
who are fluent in the upside-down language Of
the Kremlin-are equipped to figure out the
precise meaning Of the thing. As for the rest Of
us, we can do little more than make guesses while
wading through the murk of words and marveling
at prose style that seems deliberately designed
to put people to sleep.
Among the points stressed by the Kremlin's
all highest are the following: ID The Vests
sharp cutdown on trade with the world behind
the Iron Curtain has had the good effect Of
making that world move rapidly toward posi-
tion of self -suf1ciency; (2) although they mouth
propaganda about Russia's alleged aggressive
ness, the United States and like-minded nations
know that the Soviet Union is too peace-loving
to attack any one; 90 those same nations are
not likely to strike at the u. s. g. r. because they
realize that such action would end In the destruc-
ton of capitalism; a. but war among the
capitalist countries is inevitable because England,
France, West Germany, Italy, Japan, ETC., will
eventually try to break out Of American bond
age" and slavery" to become independent and
follow course Of high profits" and 90 this
inevitability will exist until imperialism" Is
wiped out.
Since it is characteristic Of the Communist
tongue to say things that mean the exact
opposite Of themselves, nothing could be sillier
than to take Stalin's words at face value. AS
far as trade goes, for example, there can be
little doubt that the Western embargo is hurting
Moscow's empire and that self f-sufacency is still
q long way of. Similarly, when one keeps in
mind Korea and the long postwar record Of Red
subversion and aggression, the real nature of the
Kremlin's "peace-loving" policy remains album
dainty clear. AS for the Soviet dictators other
points: D His assertion that the capitalist
countries are not likely to attack the U. s. s. r.
seems strangely at variance with his own propa-
gandists' screaming charge that the United
States is preparing to unleash third world
war; co his reference to inevitable armed con-
f1ict between US and nations like Britain and
Japan has all the earmarks Of a line designed
to promote interallied dissension and weak
ening of the mutual defense program, and 90
his statement On the need to wipe out "im-
perialism"-which in the Marxist lexicon means
capitalism-can be interpreted as suggesting
that the wiping out will have to be done some
day by the glorious, -imperialistic, unag-
gressive forces of totalitarian Russia.
Actually, ever since the revolution led by
Lenin, one of the most basic tenets of the grim
Communist faith has been that sooner or later,
inevitably, there must be an all-out decisive
war between the Soviet Union and the free
world made up of nations like the United States
That view still governs the Kren1lins thinking
and planning. Involving ambitions aimed at
nothing less than global domination, it is the
key reality to be reckoned with in any effort to
divine the meaning Of Stalins latest exercise in
double talk.