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\. oe ) 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 0 percent, of the agreements it conchudes. — Genuine coexistence would merit universal applause, but @ co- 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 is one of the most ancient and shopworn in the Communist bag of tricks. It harks back to Lenin, who launched it in the very accou- terments in which we observe it attired today. Since then it bas 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. nd anticoexistence: 1927-33, Stalin-Litvinov “Third Period.” lass set against class. Insurrectional strikes and sabotage. Break with England. nded with Hitler's arrival in power. Third coexistence: 1934-39. Stalin. Pact with Laval. U.8.8.R. entry into the League of Nations. Third anticoexistence: 1939-41. Stalin. Began with the second Soviet-Ger- man pact, the Stalin-Hitler agreement which triggered World War II 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-Khrushchev. Cutminated in the embraces of Geneva; terminated in the blood of Budapest. Fifth anticocxistence: 1956-57, Khrushchev. Assaults on Quemoy and Matsu. Disturbances in the Near East, Sixth coexistence: 1958. Khruschev. Brief burgeoning of the “Npirit of Camp David,” interrupted by Berlin criais in November 1958. Sixth anticocxistence: 1958-60, Khrushchev. Shoe pounding on U.N, desk. Bellowed obscenities in Paris. Seventh coexistence: 1960-61. “Khrushchev. Implied commitment to helt nuclear teats. Kennedy-Khrushchev meeting in Vienna. Beventh anticoexistence: 1961-63. Another Berlin crisis~Wall of shame. Nuclear megatons. Cuba. Eighth coexistence: 1963-65. 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 oscillations, 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 East has been guilty of assailing and subjugating peoples, and hence it is the East which owes atone-