Evening star., 1953-07-31
Red Rehosh

Coincident with its 50th anniversary, the
Communist Party Of the Soviet Union has issued
long -winded manifesto that offers little or
no promise Of a real change for the better in
the Kremlin'S policies. For the substance of
the thing, as outlined in Pravda does not seem
to differ in any essential respect from the line
laid down in Stalins time and that fact
coupled with Premier Malenkov's statement
hailing the Panmunjom truce as "a great vic
tory" for the North Korean and Chinese Reds
certainly suggests that the Russian peace
offensive" far from being a good-faith opera
tion is designed merely to befuddle and divide
the free world.
Actually, the only novelty in the new mani
festo-the only idea that distinguishes it from
past definitions of Communist policy-is the
emphasis it places on a reafirmation of recent
party attacks on hero worship "the cult of the
individual" and one-man dictatorship Declar-
ing that the Soviet Union must be ruled by the
collective leadership" and collective wisdom"
of the partyS Central Committee, it thus i'm
plicitly berates the practices of the late Josef
Stain and deplores the propaganda that apoth-
eosized him as "the supreme genius Of the ages"
More than that, by failing to mention the
name of Malenkov or any other living Russian
leader it lends additional strength to the specu-
lation that the men of the Kremlin still are
who is to be top boss-a situation in which
Lavrenti Beria is not likely to be the Red
hierarchy'S sole casualty and in which there
conceivably could be upsets and changes most
helpful to our world and the cause of peace.
However, as far as the essentials of present
Soviet policy are concerned, Pravda's summary
of the post-Staln party declaration appears to
be nothing more than a slightly modified re-
hash of the views of Stain himself. For
example, it contains the usual Communist self
adulation, the usual warning against remnants
of "the rotten bourgeois" still surviving in the
u. S. S. r.. the usual promise of pie in the
Sky-by-and-b -by-for the Russian people, and
the usual agreement with Lenin on "the posi-
bility Of a lasting co-exiStence and peaceful
competition of two systems socialism and capi-
talism." Similarly, and again as usual, the
manifesto asserts that the economies of the
free nations are steadily crumbling and that
"reactionary imperialist forces" are therefore
in "fear of peace" and intensifying their "capi-
talist encirclement" with "an types of provoca-
tionS, ventures and diversioniSt acts" Here
there is nothing new; bascally, it is what we
have been hearing from Moscow ever since the
end of the Second World War.
Nevertheless, this latest Communist effusion
els at pains to emphasize that Soviet policy is
animated by LeninS belief in the idea of
lasting co-existence and peaceful competition"
The truth is, however, that Lenin believed in
that idea only as something to be used as a
temporary ruse to lull other nations into false
sense of security. His real dictum, in his own
words, was this: That "the existence Of the
Soviet Republic side by side with imperialist
states for long time is unthinkable One or
the other must triumph in the end. And before
that end supervenes, series of frightful COLI
sions will be inevitable" Nothing that has
happened in Russia since Stalin's death war
rants the view that the men of the Kremlin
have abandoned that basic tenet of Red dogma
and Red planning. Accordingly, until there is
convincing evidence to the contrary, their So
called peace offensive" must be eyed with the
utmost suspicion.