Soviet Deputy Premier Says Nation Stands For Peace And Friendship

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27232, 8 November 1949, Page 7

Soviet Deputy Premier Says Nation Stands For Peace And Friendship

New Zealand Press Association—Reuter—-Copyright

MOSCOW, Nov. 6.

Malenkov continued: “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.” Malenkov was addressing the Moscow"’ City Soviet at its traditional meeting to mark the thirty-second anniversary of the Soviet revolution. “Atomic energy in the hands of Imperialists is a source of production of deathdealing weapons, whereas in the hands of the Soviet it must, and will, serve as a mighty weapon of unprecedented technical progress and further a speedy growth of the productive forces of our country,” Malenkov said. Soviet policy included the curtailment of armaments and an unconditional ban on atomic weapons. Marshall Plan Attacked

Malenkov said one of the main aims of the Marshall Plan was forcible militarism of European countries, leading directly to a new world war. So-called atomic diplomacy was based on the assumption that the United States had an absolute monopoly of the atomic weapon. The Soviet had never concealed its own possession of that weapon. “The programme of the enemies of peace is becoming clearer,” said Malenkov. “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 American Imperialists and bringing sovereign peoples to the status of slaves.” Malenkov said that the Congress of the 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 Imperialists,” lead to the Russian Revolution. The last war, “ also begun by Imperialists,” led to the strengthening of popular democratic regimes in Europe and the “ victory of democratic China."

Malenkov added: “The American people know very well that in the event of war suffering will visit the American Continent, too. If there is a new blood bath there will be weeping mothers also in America” Malenkov said that the Western Powers were “ criminally undermining the people's democracies,” using for ■that purpose in the first instance the “ espionage band of Tito." Malenkov 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. China’s Role Dealing with China, 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 the gigantic majority of the world. American Imperialists counted on using China as their main base for Asian domination and as one of the decisive links in the encirclement of the Soviet. Comparing “ people’s democracies ” with the United States, Malenkov said that in the United States signs were mounting of the approaching economic crisis. Since last autumn, said Malenkov, American production had declined steadily. Last July it represented only 60 per cent, of war-time production. American industrial output decreased by 11 per cent, in October. Industrial shares were fluctuating and falling, American exports were decreasing, and stocks of commodities increasing. The number of totally unemployed doubled this year. Soviet Economic Development Malenkov said Russia’s pre-war level of production and economic development had been reached and surpassed. In 10 months compared with last year Soviet production had risen 20 per cent. This year’s Soviet harvest exceeded pre-war levels. In 1950 Soviet production would rise to a general level 50 per cent, higher than before 1940.

The Soviet Deputy Premier, Mr Georgi Malenkov, in an address on the thirty-second anniversary of the Russian Revolution, said that the Soviet Union stands firmly for peace and the friendship of nations. “ The Soviet Union does not want war, and will do everything to prevent war,” he said. Mr Malenkov described the basis of the Marshall Plan, however, as “preparation for war,” and said the aim behind it was “to transform the whole world into a colony of American Imperialists.”

“ Whereas Soviet production has grown in the last 20 years by nine times, European production has remained at the same level.” Malenkov said.

In the “ capitalist world ” there were about 40,000,000 unemployed or partly-employed people. “ Devaluation of the various currencies may serve as a clear example of the aggressive American economic policy which cannot but end in disaster.” After devaluation America planned to seize whole branches of industry in Western European countries and also the colonies of European Powers.

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 Fast East the Kurile Islands and Sakhalin helped frontier defence. “Poland is strong. Czechoslovakia is united and strong, and the Soviet has loyal friends in the peoples of Hungary, Rumania, and Bulgaria.” Russian Programme and Potsdam

Malenkov said that Russia’s programme provided for the “ precise execution of the Potsdam agreement regarding the German problem, peaceful settlement with Japan, and the development of trade and economic relations with other countries.”

Of Germany, 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. Call to Servicemen Russia’s Minister of the Armed Forces, Marshal of the Soviet Union, Alexander Vasilevsky, in an order of the day issued to mark the thirtysecond anniversary of the revolution, called on all Soviet servicemen to improve their prowess in the forthcoming winter season of miltary training. Marshal Vasilevsky said that in summer training Soviet soldiers “increased their military and political knowledge and heightened their combat steadfastness and endurance.” Messages of greetings and congratulations were sent to Mr Stalin on the anniversary of the Soviet revolution from Yugoslavia, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania, and Israel. Czechoslovakia’s greeting was carried across the whole country by relay runners and handed at the frontier to a Soviet official by the Olympic runner, Emu Zatopek.