Evening star., 1961-05-15
KhrushcheV's Latest


full speeches, Nikita Khrushchev has
once again predicted that the day is
coming when communism will win con-
troll of the entire globe. More than that,
he has suggested that this triumph of
Red totalitarianiSm, far from requiring
a great shooting war, will be attained
through a peaceful and historically
inevitable process in which peoples
everywhere will voluntarily embrace
Marxism-Leninism and happily sovietize
themselves.
Although he has not said Just when
this is going to happen, or precisely how,
the Soviet Premier apparently has no
doubt about the soundneSs Of his proph-
ecy. AS he has put it, II repeat that we
do not need war to achieve domination
80. We will create this victory because
other peoples will follow in the path of
our example" And he has gone on to
claim that Red Russia, since the BolShe-
vik Revolution 40 years ago, has become
the worlds greatest" industrial power
and "the freest" of all lands, with a
marked moral superiority over the capi-
talistic WeSt-particularly over the
United States, where young Americans
are "good-for- -nothings g. leading a
disSipated life"
One wonders why Mr.. Khrushchev
has shouted himself almost hoarse in
making these and similar assertions.
One wonders, too, why he has been so
untruthful in his boastfulnesS. He him
self knows, of course, that the USSR
still has long way to go before it can
nope to match our country'S current
industrial production, not to mention
our incompatible. agricultural output.
He knows also, as do all literate persons
on this side Of the Iron Curtain, that
the Soviet Union is a super-despotism
that holds captive nearly a dozen once
Independent lands and that refuses, as
II afraid, to let It's people have genuinely
free elections or uncenSored access to
the news Of the world. AS for moral
superiority, the Kremlin, wholly apart
from It's own admitted problems in the
field Of delinquent youth, has record
OF so many double-dealing deeds, so
many blood purgeS and so many acts of
savage repression (as in Hungary that
Mr.. KS hypocritical, holier-t -than-thou
preachmentS are altogether repellent.
Conceivably, however, his countrymen-
still suffering from acute shortages Of
consumer goods and housing - are
reStive, and his Orwellian propaganda
may help to placate them.
Nevertheless, despite all the things
that can be said against it and its
cruelty tyrannical nature, the Com
munist system is a truly formidable
international conspiracy that operates
with great effectiveness throughout the
globe, especially among the impov-
eriShed and illiterate In underdevel-
oped regions. Under the direction of
Moscow and Peiping, it strives cease
lessly-as at present in Laos and South
Wet Nam, for example-to spread its
domination. This it does in a number
OF ways, with methods ranging from
mere subversive propaganda and the
1nfiltration Of trained agitators to para
military operations involving systematic
terrorism and guerrilla warfare.
AS we are seeing now in Southeast
Asia, and as we are likely to see In
other areas on the periphery of the
Sino-Soviet empire, these operations
designed to nibble away at freedom
without risking full-scale war - are
deadly dangerous. Certainly, If we and
our allies do not react with effective
counter-measureS, the spread Of COM
munism in the world will be greatly
facilitated, no matter how megaloma-
niacal Nikita KhrushchevS prediction
seems at the moment.