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J 4 THE TECHNIQUES OF BOVIET PROPAGANDA © ~~ ment if it wishes to reestablish s normal climate. However, it oon tinues to adamantly refuse— ant the self-determination of the captive nations of Europe; ~ the reunification of Germany by genuinely free elections; the control of disarmament y Fe realistic inspection; - aan the lifting of the Iron and Bamboo Curtains; . the termination of guerrilla warfare, which is kindling fires in Asia, Africa, and Latin America; the elimination of the wall of shame in Berlin, the virtues and : beauties of which Khrushchev celebrated just 1 week before coexisting with Averell Harriman in Moscow. . Thus, coexistence is entirely abstract; all euphony and no mab- ; stance—a particularly incongruous position for a regime which pro- j fesses materialism. The completely empty proposal made by the + Soviets as a preliminary manifestation of a recent mood of coexistence, i the nonageression pact between the Atlantic and Warsaw powers, perfectly 4 ustrates that it is, in contradiction to Lenin’s tea i ure verbiage without the least concrete foundation. The ‘proposal i a8 NO Provision whatever for the enforcement of f peace} it is simply ; a verbal pledge which is not even new, as being inco} ted in the commitments undertaken by all members at the the United ati | True, words have utility—but mainly for hypocrites. tee aingle consequence of the terms of such a pact would be implicit con- ! firmation of the Communist status of the European captive nations ; by equating them, mere satellites with puppet eovernments supported { a Soviet bayonets, with the truly independent and legal States of | { Mt oe nee ante aes ons. ‘ATO. Dictatorships are continually gnawed by « profound con- sciousness of their illegitimacy, and before all else crave recognition. And that is what we would award them by acceptance of ct pea We would not be signing “no” to aggression; we would “yes” to communism. This is unfortunste, the conciliators will say, but let us still « aif Let us admit that communism is here to stay. Let us pass sponge over its crimes. Granted, we could better believe in the new spirit of communism if it had put its delinquent past in order, but if its good intentions do not extend that far, let us at least attempt to arrange matters so it will not resume its mischief making. Alas, it will resume. First, because the Communists will obviously reason that s new j expansion they will realize by fraud or crime tomorrow will, the da: i after tomorrow, become the past, and that the logic of the “new spirit’ "| will then result in # fresh passing of the spange d so on, ad! infinitum, without any foreseeable end to the ee en of the sponge.+ Second, because communism itself has repeatedly and consistently announced its intention to continue its conquests. | Indeed, the most yawning crack in the facade of coexistence is ex- { posed by the clamorous Communist insistence that coexistence does! not extend to the areas of what they term “ideology” and “the class! struggle.” The good democrat will reason that if the competitive! itis is staged on the ideological level, and no longer by H-bombs,i en. becomes legitimate, and victory simply hes to Sig to bet would indeed be legitimate if communism would compete fairl But—and this is the crux of the matter—what communism calls tl e|