Stalin and Bolsheviks on NATO as an instrument of aggression of war
Here are few of them;
Stalin, Interview with
"Pravda" Correspondent February 17, 1951
“The United
Nations Organization, from being a world organization of nations with equal
rights, has changed into an instrument of a war of aggression. In
reality, the United Nations Organization is now not so much a world
organization, (but) as an organization for the Americans and treats
American aggression as acceptable... The United Nations Organization has been transformed
into an instrument of war, a means to unleash a new world war. The
aggressive core of the United Nations Organization has formed the aggressive
North Atlantic pact from 10 members and the representatives of these
countries are now making decisions about war and peace in the United
Nations Organization. It was these who implemented the scandalous decision on
the aggression of the People's Republic of China in the United Nations
Organizations. ”
XIX Congress of the CPSU (b) - (October 5-14, 1952).
G.M. Malenkov, Secretary
of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b), Report of the Central Committee of
the CPSU (b) to the XIX Party Congress
In the postwar period, the
activities of the ruling circles of the United States of America, England,
France and in the field of international relations developed under the sign of
the preparation for a new war.
Almost immediately after the end
of World War II, the United States of America abandoned the agreed course of
policy pursued by the wartime allies and enshrined in the resolutions of
the Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam conferences of powers. With a number of its
aggressive actions, the United States aggravated the international
situation, putting the world before the danger of a new war.
The rulers of the United States
have formulated the goals of their aggressive course quite frankly. As
early as 1945, shortly after Truman took over as President of the United
States, he declared that ʺvictory presented the American people with a
constant and burning need to lead the world.ʺ Subsequently, Truman and
other American politicians have repeatedly reiterated their claims to the
ʺworld leadership of the United States.ʺ This line of conquering world
domination and subjugating all other countries is the main motive of the entire
policy of the American imperialist elite.
The US thugs knew, of course,
that it was impossible to achieve domination over other nations by peaceful
means. They knew from the experience of the Nazis, who also strove for
domination over other countries, that one cannot even dream of world
domination without the use of force, without unleashing a new war. And they
decided to break the peace, prepare a new war. And since the USSR is the main
enemy of the new war, the main bulwark of peace, the US tycoons came to the
conclusion that the war should be launched against the USSR and other peace
supporters. This is how the North Atlantic aggressive bloc was formed,
cobbled together without the USSRʹs knowledge, behind its back. And in
order to hide the aggressive goals of this bloc from the people and deceive the
people, they declared it a ʺdefensiveʺ bloc against ʺcommunismʺ, against
the Soviet Union, which is supposedly going to attack the United States,
Britain, France and other members of the bloc.
The main aggressive power ‐
the United States of America ‐ is strenuously urging other capitalist
countries to war, primarily those in the North Atlantic bloc, as well as the
countries defeated in the Second World War ‐ West Germany, Italy, Japan. The
American bosses determine the goals of the war, its route, the forces to take
part in it for all the bloc members, and decide other questions of preparing
for the war, dictating their will.
In an effort to disguise their
aggressive policy, the ruling circles of the United States are trying to
present the so‐called ʺcold warʺ against the democratic camp as a peaceful
defensive policy and intimidate their peoples with the non‐existent danger
of an attack from the USSR. The disguise of aggressive plans and ongoing
hostilities with demagogic peace‐loving phraseology by the bosses of the
Atlantic bloc is a characteristic feature of their policy. The fact is that
today it is not so easy to drive the peoples, who have only recently learned
the full weight of bloody military operations, into a new war, into a war against
peace‐loving peoples. Hence these efforts of an aggressive Atlantic wolf to
put on a sheep’s skin.
***
A Warmonger’s International, Otto
Kuusinen
original text published in
Pravda, 27 August 1951
At the beginning of July this
year, the Anglo-American politicians put into operation in Western Germany new
units in what would appear to be two different lines of strategy. On the one
hand, McCloy, the American gauleiter in Bonn, summoned Adenauer and a number of
Hitlerite generals and ordered them to speed up to the utmost the formation of
the German divisions for inclusion in the ‘European army’ of the North-Atlantic
military alliance. On the other hand, in Frankfort on the Main, under the
protection of the Anglo-American occupational forces, a congress was held of
the Right-wing Socialists of the North-Atlantic Alliance countries and of
several other countries and a so-called ‘Socialist International’ was
inaugurated. The direct leadership of this latter unit was entrusted to Morgan
Phillips, the secretary of the Executive Committee of the British Labour Party;
he, too, was elected chairman of this International.
What is this International? Is it
the resurrected old Second International, which had lived so dishonestly and
had died so ingloriously, or some new invention?
To be able to answer this
question we must first ascertain what attitude this International adopted
towards the major problems of present-day international politics.
‘Socialist’ Boosting of American
Imperialism; It is not worthwhile asking the present-day Right-wing Socialists
what their attitude is towards the imperialism of their respective countries.
And it is equally useless asking
them what their attitude is towards imperialism in general, for
to this question they answer without batting an eyelid: of course, we are
opposed to imperialism... In the declaration of the aims and objects of their
International they claim that they oppose imperialism in all its forms. Thus,
their words constantly contradict their deeds.
But even this verbal repudiation
of imperialism melts away on the lips of these ‘internationalists’ as soon as
the question of their attitude towards American imperialism is brought up; and
this is a question that no workers’ party in the world can brush aside, for
everybody knows that after German imperialism was crushed in the Second World
War, the United States of America became the principal centre of
international imperialist reaction. Hence, if American imperialism
is not opposed, the hollow phrase ‘oppose imperialism in all its
forms’ can deceive nobody.
This is exactly the case with the
policy of the Right-wing Socialists. They obsequiously support the execution of
all the imperialist plans of the United States government — the Marshall Plan,
the North-Atlantic military alliance, the remilitarization of Germany and
Japan, and so forth. And yet they have the brazenness to assure the workers
that they oppose imperialism in all its forms!
…
The opportunists of the
old Second International often promised the colonial peoples
independence, although they always broke their promise; but the 1951
International does not even promise this. Why? Because they grudge a few extra
words?
No. The reason is that the
American imperialists strongly dislike the slogan of independence for the
colonial countries. They are not averse to advocating the ‘liberation’ of some
colony or other that is ruled by, say, British or French imperialism, but they
assert that there is no subjection and exploitation in the American colonies;
such scandalous things are to be found only in non-American colonies, they say.
Hence, Washington has no objection to calls for the ‘liberation’ of colonies
and for the liquidation of ‘subjection and exploitation’ in them if
these calls are couched in general terms, and without any reference to the
American colonies. The call for a struggle for the independence of the
colonial and dependent countries, however, smacks of revolt against imperialist
oppression! The American aspirants to world domination have learned,
particularly in China, how dangerous it is for imperialism when an oppressed
nation rises to wage a determined struggle for national independence. Even in
the Philippines, to whom the United States government granted a charter of
nominal ‘independence’, the people are still fighting for real independence.
Naturally, therefore, the
gentlemen in Washington no longer tolerate the slogan of a struggle for
the independence of the oppressed nations even as mere propaganda. Consequently,
the abettors of imperialism, the Right-wing Socialists, also had to stop
playing with this slogan in their propaganda.
As we know, the American
and British aggressors are employing this lie in connection with
Korea. They have proclaimed the Korean people, who are defending their
country, as aggressors, and are brazenly shouting that the
American and British troops who have been sent to Korea to kill the Koreans and
to seize their country are defending America and Britain! The Americans seized
the Chinese island of Taiwan and bombed Chinese towns and villages, but on
encountering detachments of Chinese volunteers in Korea they proclaimed the
Chinese People’s Republic an aggressor!
The Right-wing Socialists in
particular took a fancy to this lie. They became so enamored of it that at the
Frankfort congress they decided to add their mite to it. They
proclaimed that the aggressor in the war in Korea is the... Cominform! Mr.
Morgan Phillips, the dashing leader of the International, went even further
and proclaimed Russia the aggressor in Korea! This is the limit.
Thus, the imperialists and
their socialist henchmen found a ‘convenient’ means of military and
political attack upon the nations they have chosen as the objects of their
imperialist aggression. Lies and slander are now officially accepted
weapons in the arsenal of the North-Atlantic military alliance, on
a par with atomic bombs, poison gas and plague germs. With the aid of these
weapons they can proclaim any war of aggression they launch as the ‘aggression
of the Cominform’, or as ‘Russian aggression’.
This congress also backed the
well-known fable that the countries in the North-Atlantic Alliance are
arming in order to ‘avert the war’ which, they allege, the Soviet
Union and the People’s Democracies are planning. But could they adduce any
facts to support their claim that the United States, or Great Britain, or any
other country in the North-Atlantic Alliance, is threatened? No,
they could not. They themselves do not believe that any such danger
exists. The Soviet Union is not building war bases in other countries
around the United States or Great Britain; but the United States is building
such bases everywhere around the Soviet Union.
Thousands of facts prove that
the Soviet Union is pursuing a policy of peace. All the pronouncements and
proposals made by the Soviet representatives in the United Nations testify to
the undeviating efforts of the Soviet government to safeguard
peace. The United States and British governments, however, mobilising
the support of the states that are dependent upon them, are more and more
converting the United Nations into an instrument of aggressive war.
As a consequence, as Comrade Stalin has pointed out, the United Nations is
ceasing to be a world organisation of equal nations, is killing its moral
prestige, and is dooming itself to collapse.
In the interview he gave a Pravda
correspondent in February 1951, Comrade Stalin exposed the favourite
lie of that most outstanding leader of the bourgeois Socialists
Attlee, then British Prime Minister. Comrade Stalin said:
Premier
Attlee has to lie about the Soviet Union, he has to make out that the peaceful
policy of the Soviet Union is an aggressive policy, and that the aggressive
policy of the British government is a peaceful policy, in order to
mislead the British people, force upon them these lies about the USSR, and thus
inveigle them by deceit into a new world war, which the ruling circles
of the United States of America are engineering.
From the moment it came into
existence, the new International became one of the most zealous detachments of
the bodyguard of present-day imperialism. Its leaders curry
favour with the most reactionary section of the bourgeoisie. The Right-wing
Socialist International has already shown that it is an agency of the
most aggressive imperialism in the world, namely, American imperialism. The
chief and immediate function of this International is to incite
aggressive war against the entire camp of democracy and Socialism.
Hence, the new Right-wing
Socialist International contains a lot of new knavery.
All the more reason, therefore,
have not only the Communist Parties of all countries, but also all honest
Socialists, and all peace supporters, to secure by their ceaseless educational
activities among the working people the complete isolation of the pseudo-socialist
abettors of the warmongers, for they are the worst enemies of
peace, democracy and Socialism.
***
XIX Congress of the CPSU (b) -
(October 5-14, 1952). Documents and Materials
8 October, (Evening meeting)
O.N. Bulganin
In recent years, in all
aggressive countries, the number of ground forces and air forces has grown
significantly. Thus, in the United States of America, the total number of the
armed forces increased, compared with 1939, more than 6 times. The size of the
regular armed forces of Great Britain in comparison with the pre‐war time has
increased two and a half times. At America’s demand, armed forces are being
created in West Germany and Japan, and the so‐called European army is being
formed, which, according to the plans of the imperialists, should increase
significantly by the end of this year.
Under the guise of false
speeches about its peacefulness, the American government is organizing and building
military bases outside its country on a large scale, mainly in West
Germany, France, England, French Morocco, Turkey and Japan. America creates its
naval bases mainly on foreign territories, primarily on those seas that are
part of the North Atlantic bloc.
It is not difficult to guess that
the construction of all these military bases is carried out by the United
States of America in such a way as to surround the Soviet Union with them and
thereby create favorable conditions for itself in case of war.
Recently, the generals of the
Atlantic bloc have shown great militant excitement, who, on the orders of
their masters from Wall Street, rush from country to country. Now they check
the troops, then they conduct land, sea and air maneuvers, then they scour the
Soviet borders. In the last three months alone, up to a dozen prominent
representatives of the American and British military have visited the
Soviet‐Turkish border. The appearance of these jackals in uniforms near
our border is, of course, not accidental. This is one of the links in the
preparation of the war against the USSR by the imperialists.
It also shows that the current
government of Turkey, having lost all sense of responsibility for the fate of
its people and turned into an appendage of the American‐British bloc, is
dragging its country down the path of dangerous adventures.
Recently, not far from the
borders of the Soviet Union, combined naval maneuvers of the Atlantic bloc took
place in the area from the northern coast of Norway to the Danish island of
Bornholm. Nine countries took part in the maneuvers. With the exception of
Norway and Denmark, the rest of the participants in the maneuvers have no
direct interests in the Baltic Sea area.
The actions and intentions of the
imperialist camp, headed by the current American government, are clearly
aggressive and provocative.
The American imperialists cover
up their robbery with the lie about ʺliberationʺ. But lying won’t help them.
Lies have short legs. You can’t go very far on such feet. (Applause.)
Currently, the US government is
seriously concerned about the lack of ʺpolitical and moral solidarityʺ between
the countries of the Atlantic bloc. And, apparently, in this regard, American
aid to the countries that are part of this bloc is especially praised. However,
it is fairly well known what American ʺaidʺ means. This is a direct plunder
of these countries and their submission to American rule. Providing ʺaidʺ to
its satellites, the American government adheres to the rule common in the world
of capitalism: ʺOn you, God, what we do not wantʺ, selling stale goods and
outdated weapons. Military and economic aid to other states is used to involve
them in active preparations for a new world war.
Describing the current situation
in the capitalist world, Comrade Stalin says:
“Outwardly,
everything seems to be ʹwellʹ: the United States of America put Western
Europe, Japan and other capitalist countries on rations: Germany (Western),
England, France, Italy, Japan , caught in the clutches of the United States,
obediently carry out the orders of the United States. But it would be wrong
to think that this “prosperity” can be preserved “forever and ever,”
that these countries will endlessly endure the domination and oppression of the
United States of America, that they will not try to break out of American
bondage and take the path of independent development. ʺ
***
V.Y. Avarin
The position taken by the governments of Attlee and Churchill in matters of Far
Eastern policy is a position conditioned by the desire to fight, if possible,
by proxy. The militarization of England, which the Labor lackeys of the
financial oligarchy began with particular zeal from the beginning of 1951,
after the Truman-Atlee conference, the entire policy of the Labor government
and the Conservative government that replaced it in 1951 shows that the British
rulers are ready to draw the British people into a new world war that the
British government is one of the active warmongers.
Comrade Stalin, in a conversation
with a Pravda correspondent published on February 17, 1951, emphasized this
circumstance.
"It is clear," he
declared, "that Premier Attlee stands not for the preservation of peace,
but for unleashing a new world war of aggression."
The British imperialists, who
turned out to be completely incapable of learning the lessons of history,
continuing after the Second World War, as in the days of Munich, to carry out
vile and insidious plans to kindle an anti-Soviet war, however, became victims
of their own criminal projects and machinations. Using the North Atlantic Pact,
acting sometimes with a whip and sometimes with a dollar, the American
financial oligarchy is increasingly turning the United Kingdom into its
military foothold and dependent country. Under the pretext of
"defending" England, the United States took possession of the air
bases in the British Isles, stationed troops in England, enjoying
extraterritoriality and being, in fact, occupying troops, exerting military-political
pressure on the London government.
As the British bourgeois press
admits, the American militarists have long been unashamedly declaring that, in
the role of an aircraft carrier for American aviation, "England will prove
useful to the United States, although London and most of England will be
destroyed" (4) .
The agreements on "military
assistance" concluded between Britain and the United States actually led
to the establishment of control by the American financial oligarchy over the
heavy industry of England, and consequently over all industry. After the
removal of the English General Montgomery from the post of head of the
headquarters of the "European army" and the appointment of the
commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the Atlantic aggressive bloc, the
American general Eisenhower, and then the plague general - Ridgway, as well as
the appointment of the American admiral as the commander of the naval forces of
the aggressor bloc, the military system of England also turned out to be in
1951 under the control of the US General Staff.
**
The socialist centre, which has taken shape in full accordance with Comrade
Stalin's foresight, is fighting for peace, for progress. The number of his
supporters is growing day by day. The capitalist center - the United States -
has created the criminal North Atlantic bloc, and is putting together Middle
Eastern and Far Eastern military blocs auxiliary to it, the task of which is to
kindle the fire of a world war unprecedented in its scale. It is not surprising
that the American reactionaries themselves in the press and speeches
acknowledge the growth of "hostility and hatred" towards the United
States throughout the world.
"'World
domination' is, to put it briefly, the content of the imperialist policy, the
continuation of which is the imperialist war" (V. I. Lenin. Stalin ,
Conversation with a Pravda correspondent,) .
****
Institute of Economics of the Academy of sciences of the USSR, 1957
The expansion of American
imperialism showed itself first in the guise of “aid for the post-war
restoration of Europe". The “Marshall Plan" which operated in 1948-52
had for its aim to make the West-European countries dependent on the American monopolies,
draw them into the orbit of aggressive American policy and force the pace of
the militarization of their economies. The “Marshall Plan" paved the way
for the North Atlantic Pact—the aggressive alliance formed in 1949 by American
imperialism (with the active support of the ruling circles of Britain) for the
purpose of establishing its domination over the world. When the period of the
Marshall Plan’s operation came to an end it was succeeded by a programme
alleged to be for “ensuring mutual security", under which American aid is
given only for arms drives, only for preparations for another war. By the terms
of this programme, American imperialism finally threw off the mask of
“restorer" of the economies of the capitalist countries.
***
XIX Congress of the CPSU (b) - (October 5-14, 1952).
V.M. Molotov
From the Introductory speech
This aggressive,
anti‐democratic camp is headed by the ruling reactionary circles of the United
States of America, fulfilling the will of the capitalist monopolies,
who, in an insatiable pursuit of increased profits, are striving to establish
their world domination by force.
It is the ruling circles of the
United States that bear the main responsibility for the criminal war in Korea,
for the seizure of the Chinese island of Taiwan, for the transformation of West
Germany and Japan into dependent states, as well as for the creation in the
West and East of aggressive military alliances, such as the North
Atlantic bloc, directed against peace‐loving states.
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