RUSSIAN AIMS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 56, 8 March 1946, Page 5

RUSSIAN AIMS

DEFINED BYPRESIDENT OF SOVIETS STRUGGLE OF COMMUNISM AND DEMOCRACIES Recd. 7.30 p.m. London. March 6. Th© Russian President, M. Kalinin, in an article in the January number of “Bolshevik,” the official periodical of the Communist Party, answered in advance Mr. Churchill's question as to what limit* there might be to Russia’s expansionist proselytising aims, says Router’s diplomatic co-respondent. In an article, the full translation of which has just reached London, and which the Foreign Office was carefully studying, M. Kalinin appears to reject any settlement which would set a limit to the struggle between Communism and the western democracies. M. Kalinin traces the course of the struggle between Marzists and leaders of the various Socialist parties in Europe, “who are reall' only servants of reaction capitalism in disguise. It would be naive to suppose that all this has receded into the past. On the contrary, it is to be regretted that the traditions of Socialism as opposed to Communism are rot only alive, but that in the transition period from war to peace they have begun to act with renewed vigour.” The article which, as an historical review by an elder statesman closely parallels Mr. Churchill’s speech, is at least as frank in its criticism of antiCommunist forces rf was Mr. Churchifl’s in condemnation of Russian tendencies. REVOLUTIONARY TACTICS Advocating uncompromisingly the continuance of revolutionary tactics of international Communism, M. Kalinin argues that Lenin 50 years ago had the perspicacity to see through and denounce Social Democrats as false friends of the people : and leaves no doubt that he considers Lenin’s analysis valid to-day, internationally as well as nationally. M. Kalinin draws on historical parallel* in a defence of tactical alliances in emergencies, and recalls how the Communist Party ip various phases of its struggle compromised with “bourgeois Liberals and small bourgeoisie, while simultaneously carrying on a merciless struggle against them on principal political questions, thus exposing their false democracy and Socialism.” He exnorts members of his party : “For ever continue this policy.” Rejecting as slander a charge that the Communist Party rejects national patriotism, M. Kalinin declared the people of all countries who were faithfully devoted to their fatherland grouped themselves around the Communist parties because no other parties were capable of solving the problems. M. Kalinin, defending the dominant position of the minority Communist parties in a number of European countries. declared: “They established the right to leadership bv emerging as the chief organisers and leaders in the sacred struggle against Fascism, not in any single occupied country, but literally in all such countries.” He cites particularly as cases of Communist leadership Yugoslavia, Greece, Belgium, Holland an 1 Norway. Summing up ’.he political position outside Russia, M. Kalinin declared: “There are too many people in all the countries abroad who are burned out politicians, whose aim is to befuddle the people. Patriots are unmasking false patriots and are performing the task Lenin took up m the earliest days of the Russian revolutionary movement, but on a far greater scale.”