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- page four another and most efficient means of carrying out the general levelling and uniformization process, which is a basic recuest of communism. Social leveling is obtained by wiping out the so-cnlled "bourgeois" class and by maintainéng the standard of Living of the total population at a uniform level, which is that of the poorest proletarian. The same leveling ia aimed at by communism for all other aspects of life - culture, tradition, racial differences etc. iuthless uprooting and mixing of populations - regardless of what this means an terms of human hardship and of cultural losses = is the means by which Moscow hopes to obtain that goal. Once humanity at a large will thus be Standardized, communists feel tliat it will be ready for the "blessings" of their ideology. 2e the populations brought from far-away countries - especially the ASiatic groups - are an element p aced entirely at the mercy of the Soviet authorities, an element of which no resistance should be fearede Taken into entirely new surroundings, these groups cannot count on any Support or backing from the outside. ,he best they can do to survive is to accept what the official propaganda teaches them and to carry out the work that is asked from them. ‘thus, Asiatic groups can be safely placed in any satellite State ana counted upon to work faithfully and inexpensively on whatever inoustrial, mining or agricultural duties the sive-Year Plan might foresee. Je the miving of pupulations has not only a purpose of unification and one of labor needs. One of its very important aspects is a Strategic ones Much talk and speculation has been alvays raises in times of wars or tensions around the projects of building huge wails and lines. The famous Chinese wall, the Siegfréed and the maginot lines belong already to the paste wately some sensational and totally unrealistic nevs have been Spread that «ussia had started building a huge wall against the Westees. these news are childish, if litterally taken. But there is a nucleus of truth to ite %oviets indeed are not building a wakl of stone and iron; but trey are sizwxx - secretely and without the West noticing it — building an impressive human wall. The modern "Chinese hall" is being erected in sturope. The material used are human beings; Asiatic settlers and tieir familiese - - - The strategic purpose of that plan becomes obvious, if, on a map, the line is followed along which the new groups are being establishede it is the vital Kaliningrad - Black Sea line. Along that line, a human wail has three purposes to fulfille= #irst of ali it is the protective Line that separates, roughly Speaking, Soviet ‘ussia proper from those of its satellites that are the most penetrated by Western culture and thinking and that are thus the ieast reliable. these are sastern verpany, \estern an 2outhe #Q.iand, vohemia and Moravia, and very specifically Slovakia? kút ző PEAS" Trac ay ate these satellites are a first line against the sest ama are economically explocitede shey are not considered safe huwevere a second line is built in their back: a line of reliable human beings, that planes and artillery cannot distroy as it could a concrete fortification belt. - ‘the second purpose is a productive one. 1t is logical, but striking, that Asiatic newcomers are reported from all essential industrial ana mining centers along that general line in Eastern Hurope. They are found in the Silesian ana Moravian coal districts, in the Slovak and Hungarian large a