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...talent for subservience, half citizens in the half-lit world of the Communist conspiracy. To rule, it was necessary to take orders. The only True Word, they taught as they had been taught, was the word from Moscow. Actually political neuters, they lived by the rule that the Comintern was the responsible custodian of men's minds and men's consciences...
...seen-the ghost of a dark, homely man named Karl Radek. It was Radek, Soviet Russian agent in Germany after World War I, who pointed out that nationalism could become the vehicle of Communism in a synthesis which he called "national Bolshevism." It was Radek who explained to the Comintern executive committee that the nationalism of the German "masses" did not necessarily prevent them from turning to Communism. A great many forces in West Germany are conspiring to bring the ghost of Karl Radek and national Bolshevism back to life...
Molotov was chosen as a Politburo "nominee" (alternate) in 1923. Then he was only 33. (This week he turned 59.) In 1930 he became Premier. Through the '20s and '30s, Molotov had a big hand in the forming of inner Soviet policy in all fields: foreign, domestic, Comintern. In May 1939, Molotov succeeded Maxim Litvinoff as Foreign Minister. Four months later he shocked the world with the Nazi-Soviet pact. Said Molotov: "One may accept or reject the ideology of Hitlerism . . . that is a matter of political views...
...year the Communists got to Shensi (1935), the world Comintern line swung to the "united front" policy which advocated solidarity among all anti-fascist forces. Moscow instructed Ye-ran to seek a united front with Chiang Kai-shek against the Japanese...
...Sheng (people's livelihood). By 1923, Sun Yat-sen accepted Soviet Russia as an ally because Communist Russia had renounced all the old imperial claims to special "rights" in Manchuria and North China. (Nevertheless, Sun Yat-sen explicitly rejected Marxism for China.) The Russians sent bright young Comintern legmen like Michael Borodin to "cooperate" with Sun Yat-sen at Canton while organizing the Communist Party of China at the same time...