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THE TECHNIQUES OF SOVIET PROPAGANDA 43 undertaken the same engagement, subsequently violated in a uni- lateral and megathundering manner. Thus was the rule again con- firmed that Moscow tears to shreds actually 100 percent, not 09 percent, of the agreements it concludes. Genuine coexistence would merit universal applause, but # oo- existence which will be demonstrated to be fraudulent deserves only criticism and denunciation. . To begin with, the belief that the slogan ‘peaceful coexistence” is a novelty in Soviet politics requires a really systematic amnesia. The slogan ts one of the most ancient and shopworn in the Communist bag of tricks. It harks back te Lenin, who launched it in the very accou- terments in which we observe it attired today. Since then it has experienced at least seven major revivals, alternating with the same number of periods of tension. For those with short memories, the following sketchy almanac is very revealing: First. coexistence: 1920-22. Lenin-Chicherin. Ended with the first Russo- German Pact of Rapallo. First anticoexistence: 1923-25. Chicherin. Beginning of the Iron Curtain. “Bolshevisation” of the Communist International. Second coexistence: 1925-27. Stalin-Chicherin-Litvinov. Distinguished in 1925-26 by widespread recognition of the Soviet Government. Second anticoexistence: 1927-33. Stalin-Litvinov “Third Period.” Class set against class. Insurrectional strikes and sabotage. Ereak with Englaod. Ended with Hitler's arrival in power. Third egexistence: 1934~39. Stalin. Pact with Laval. U.5.S.R. entry into the League of Nationa. Third anticoexistence: 1930-41. Stalin. Began with the second Soviet-Ger- man pact, the Stalin-Hitler agreement which triggered World War UY and finally ended with Hitler's attack on Stalin. Fourth coexistence: 1942-46. Stalin. The war years with “Uncle Joe.” Teheran, Yalta, and Potsdam. : Fourth anticoexistence: 1947-53. Stalin. Coup of Prague. Berlin blockade. Korean “police action.” Fifth coexistence: 1953-56. Malenkov-Bulganin-Khrushchey. Culminated in the embraces of Geneva; terminated in the blood of Budapest. Fifth anticocxistence: 1956-57, Khrushchev. Asaaulte on Quemoy and Matsu. Disturbances in the Near East, Sixth coexistence: 1958. Khruschev. Brief burgeoning of the “Spirit of Camp David," interrupted by Berlin criais in Navember 1954. Sixth anticoexistence: 1958-60. Khrushehev. Shoo pounding on U.N. d Bellowed obscenities in Paris. Seventh coexistence: 1960-61. Khrushchev. Implied commitment to halt nuclear tests. Kennedy-Khrushchev meeting in Vienna, Seventh anticoexistence: 1961-63. Another Berlin crisis~Wall of shame. Nuclear megatons. Cuba. Eighth coexistence: 1964-65. Khrushchev. Moscow test-ban treaty. This calendar develops clearly a significant characteristic of Soviet foreign policy: its resemblance to a sinusoid curve with alternating oscillations of tension and relaxation, but with the axis arrowing always toward world hegemony; a hegemony which communism simply cannot renounce, not only because it constitutes communism’s ver- itable vocation, but also for a still deeper reason—if communism does not destroy freedom abroad, freedom will destroy communism within. Even more significantly than by these oxcillations, the Soviets reveal their insincerity by their failure to express their coexistence in any concrete act; it always remains strictly vocal. Stress must be laid on the fact that Eastern and Western positions are in no way symmetrical. Only the Kast has been guilty of assailing and subjugeting peoples, and hence it is the East which owes atone- an Pe. er i