Oldal 1 [1]
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The news from the USSR, while stili not much very hain
finite can be said, take on an increasingly alaming tum which
it would be supreme madness to overlook, It is better in is
case just to report facts - because these facts must create a
sense of great urgency in every interested person, It should be
clearly understood, that the athmosphere of all dispatches rea
ching us from Moscow is as follows : something very big is under
way. It is maybe not for tomorrow, But certainly some very great
policy decisions have been taken, which will mould the shape of
lihings to come, And all the Soviet moves must henceforth be inter¬
preted as pieces of a puzzle, which, if jointly observed, might
give us the pattern of things to come.
The first and foremost thing to observe, is the aan
incredible "hate America" campaign carried out in all Russia
campaign which has gone to pitches of violence even uninown
the very worst hours of the Ilya Ehrenburg "hate Germany" drive
during world war II, The technique is definitely more perfect
than in the past, And really every single devise of public res
lations is used in the drive, Foreigners are impressed by Pravda,
Izvestia, Trud, Red Star and by the Moscow Radio. But these are
by far not the worst. The most violent are the local papers, the
local radios, the schools, the party~brenches etc. In fact it
has gone so far, that the average man in Russia now fully belie¬
veg in the imminence of war. But it is interesting to note, that
the people do not fully believe the drive. As far as our obser=
vers make out, the reaction is as follows : the average Russian
sees Brom this drive with greatest apprehension, that war is
both imminent and inevitable, He accepts it with sullen resigna¬
in person and live on the heroic tales of the schooli He does
not believe what he is told, but has no means to find out how far
it is true and how far it is just plain lies, He is quite unhappy
about it, but does not even conveive the idea that he could do
something to avoid the unpleasant future, The average Russian con¬
siders the coming war as an inevitable catastrphe, such as a fire
or an earthquake,
fhe second most important fact is, that very discreetly
but with absolute consistency, new classes are called up for the
Red Amye fhe two classes which were to be demobilizeé in the first
half of this year have been maintained under arms. There have been
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