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XeA,4.00%. 526 ~ page two = where the points which could be used skilifully, in order to widen the breaches and undermine the morale of the Atlantic Nations. In this connection Bulgenin made an extremely bitter sortie against the Soviet propaganda in Burope, saying thet it was falling far short of its possibilities and its goals, that it lacked imagination and the real feeling of what people liked to hear, On the other hand, he pointed out the excellence of the Soviet Intelligence Service, to show that the wealmess of psychological warfare was not « lack of skill, but a lack of clearesighted leadership. He then went on to point owt the military progress achieved, especially the strong unification of all Eastern Forces, the stendardization of their weapons, and the dact that besides the Russien and Bast German Forces, the People's Deo cragies of Europe could now put into line within thirty days a force of 81 Divisions. Naturally, be added, much rrmuins to be impréved, especially in the field of motoriza= tion, but this was veing done at a very fast rytim, He finally poin= ted out, that like in the NATO Forces the English ( sic!) it was time now to come mn the People's Democratic Forces also to a come mon lenguaze of command, since this was the normai implementation of the communityo# weapons, the community of command and the community of aims. ; It is interesting to note, that this latter suggestion was not fully approved by the assistents, though no one dared to contradict the M arshalie While the Bulgariens end Rumaniens were fully in support of accepting the Russian, the Czechs, Hungarians | end Albenians where not so happy, even going so far as to point out, that the abandonment of thke national language would greatly hurt the morale of the forcese In fact, no decision was tuken on the subject during the Conferences During the discussion Mevshall Bulganin talked also on the diverse Avithese But ke was by far not so explicit as Marsnali Zhukov, who made a very clear talk on the relative merits of the diffe= rent Armies in the field, He gave the greatest and most unqualified praise to the Bulgarians, who ave far ahead of everyone else in the field of military wd moral preparations. Some nice but non—crmrihmth comittal words were suid about the Albanians : obviously they are sú unimportant and far away, tnet they could be dismissed, whatever they might do, with a pat on the back, The Czech armament was praised and the Polish progress, but in both cases Zhukov made some reserva= tins about the morale of the forces — to which, astonishingly ~Rokossowsky concurred, Zhukov was very hard for the Rumanians, whose im battle value he estimates at very low, and for the Hun= garians, whom he biamed of dragging their feet in the necessary . re-armement effort and of establishing an army whose morale was no good at ali, On this point later on General Nogradi made some form 16.
