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...What makes Stalin great," said the Tsar, "is that he understands how to adapt revolutionary tactics to the whirling spirals of history as it emerges onto new planes. He has discarded the classical type of proletarian revolution. Nevertheless, he is carrying through basic social revolutions in Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary and Poland. Furthermore, we Marxists be lieve that in the years of peace Britain and the U.S. will fall apart, due, as we Marxists say, to the inability of capitalism to solve its basic contradiction - that is, its inability to provide continuous work for the masses so that they...
This move aroused mixed feelings in Washington, where it had long been expected. There was a certain relief that Soviet intentions regarding Greece, never more than half-veiled, were fully out in the open again. The Soviet catspaws in the Balkans, Albania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, would no longer bother to hide their affiliations with the "Markos Mountain Government" (as the Moscow radio called it). But the announcement had been adroitly timed to follow the break-up of the London conference; it was supposed to convince lukewarm supporters of the Marshall Plan that Europe's mess could never be cleaned...
...Communists have almost throttled open opposition in Eastern Europe. Last week their stooges took over the remnants of Mikolajcyk's Peasant Party in Poland and denounced "Anglo-Saxon imperialism." Last fortnight a military court sentenced Rumania's Maniu to life imprisonment. Yugoslavia's Mihailovich and Bulgaria's Petkoff had long since been shot. Hungary's Communists had swallowed the Smallholders Party, and last week Czech Communists began to break up their opposition with arrests...
...issue of Greek-Soviet relations Tsouderos holds that "in the light of Russia's backing of the Slavic Balkans such as Yugoslavia and Bulgaria--whose interests run counter to ours--it will require a general international agreement to bring about good neighborhood...
...Russians marched into Rumania in August 1944, Ana was among them, in a Red Army officer's uniform. She became boss of the Rumanian Communists, co-founder of the revived Comintern and one of Stalin's most trusted lieutenants in the Balkans, ranking with Tito and Bulgaria's Georgi Dimitroff...