SOVIET ACCUSES AMERICA OF AIMING AT WAR

Grey River Argus, 8 November 1949, Page 5

SOVIET ACCUSES AMERICA OF AIMING AT WAR

For World Domination But Russia and Asia Can Inflict Disaster On Capital Order I MOSCOW, Nov 6. M. Goorgev Malenkov. Soviet Deputy Premier, to-day addressed the Moscow City Soviet' at its traditional meeting to mark the thirty-second anniversary of the Soviet Revolution. He said.- -“The Soviet Union stands firmly for peace and the friendship of nations. It does not want war and will do everything to prevent war."

He said the Marshall Plan was based on “preparation for war.” The aim behind it was to transform the whole world into a colony of the American imperialists. He said —“The Soviet people do not fear peaceful competition with the capitalist world ,but are sure of their might and know very well that any war adventure will end in disaster for the imperialists. Atomic energy in the hands of the imperialists is a source of production of death-dealing weapons, whereas, in the hands of the Soviet it must and will serve as a mighty weapon of unprecedented technical progress and the further speedy growth of the productive forces of our country. Soviet policy includes curtailment of armaments a.nd an unconditional ban on atomic weapons " He said that one of the main aims of the Marshall Plan was forcible militarisation of European countries, leading directly to a new world war. So-called “atomic diplomacy” was based on an assumption that the United States had an absolute monopoly of the atomic weapon. The Soviet had never concealed its own possession of that weapon. He continued: "The programme of the enemies of peace is becoming clearer. It presupposes the creation of a world American empire by means of new wars. The scale on which this empire is to be built must exceed that of any known empire making process. It is a question of transforming the whole world into a colony of the American imperialists and bringing sovereign people to the status of slaves "

He declared that recent Congresses of partisans of peace held in Prague and Paris had found a great response in all countries. If imperialism unleashed a third world war, the result would mean the grave of capitalism as a whole. History showed that the First World War, '‘started by the imperialists,” led to the Russian Revolution. The last war, “also begun by the imperial’sts.” led to the strengthening of the popular democratic regimes in Europe and the, “victory of democratic China.” M. Malenkov added: “The American people know very well that, in the event of a war, suffering wilt visit the American Continent, too. If there is a bloodbath, there will be weening mothers also in America.” M. Malenkov said that the Western Powers were “criminally undermining the people’s democracies," using for that purpose, in the first instance, “the espionage band ot Tito.” He spoke of the importance of “uniting the democratic forces of the German people.” European peace could not be assured if the German problem were not solved. Dealing with China, M. Malenkov quoted Lenin as saying in 1923, that the outcome of the world struggle between Capitalism and Communism depended in its final balance on the fact that Russia, India and China represented a gigantic majority of the world. American imperialists counted on using China as their main base for As’a domination and as one of the decisive links in the encirclement of the Soviet. Comparing the - "people’s democracies” with the United States. M. Malenkov said that in tbe United States signs were mounting of an approaching economic crisis. Since last autumn, he said, American production had declined steadily. Last July it represented only 60 per

cent of the war-time production. Amerß an industrial output had decreased by 11 per cent in October Industrial shares were fluctuating and falling. American exports were decreasing and stocks of commodities were increasing. The number o', totally unemployed has doubled this year. He said Russia’s pre-war level of production and economic development had been reached and surpassed. In ten months compared with last year, Soviet production had risen by 20 per cent. This year’s Soviet harvest exceeded the pre-war levels. In 1950, Soviet production would rise to a general level of 50 per cent, higher thatn before 1940. “Whereas Soviet production has grown in the last 20 years by nine times. European production has remained at the same level.” M. Malenkov said that in the “capitalist world” there were about forty million unemployled or partly employed people. “The devaluation of various currencies may serve as a clear example of aggressive American economic policy which cannot but end in disaster,” he said. After devaluation, America planned to se ze whole branches of industry in Western Europe and also the colonies of the European Pbwers. M. Malenkov said that never in its history had Russia had such equitable and well-disposed frontiers. Frontier injustice had been rectified for Byelorussia and Moldavia. There was no longer a hostile East Prussia. Leningrad’s defence was assured. In the Far East the Kurile Islands and Sakhalin helped frontier defence. He asserted: “Poland is strong; Czechoslovakia is united and strong, and the Soviet has loyal friends in the peoples of Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria.” M. Malenkov said that Russia’s programme provided for the “precise execution of the Potsdam Agreement regarding the German problem, a peaceful settlement with Japan and the development of trade and economic relations with other countries.” Of eGrmany, he said that the problem there could not be solved unless Germany took its fate into its own hands and deprived the “Prussian magnates of their political and economic foundations,” and unless radical democratic reforms were carried out. The fact that M. Malenkov replaced M. Molotov as the official to deliver this year’s speech strengthens t'ne view 7 that M Malenkov is regarded in Moscow as M. Stalin’s successor. The speech used to be made by M. Stalin, but in recent years, he has stood down. M. Molotov made the speech in 1947 and 1948.