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Incidents of this kind were the stuff of the new propaganda funneling out of Moscow. The old Communist slogans were dropped and the Russians were urged to fight the "patriotic war" for the liberation of "the motherland" from the "fascist beasts." The propaganda was immensely effective. But not yet so effective that it prevented General Vlasov, one of Zhukov's top men in the defense of Moscow, from going over to the Germans and organizing Red army prisoners and defectors into an anti-Communist army. Morale was still wobbly...
...staff officers, anxious to come out on the winning side, sent greetings to Bao Dai, whom they expect to come back from the French Riviera as his country's "arbiter." There was much talk of the Premier's possible replacements: Phan Huy Quat (whom Diem considers a Fascist) and Ho Thong Minh (a former Defense Minister who quit rather than send the army against rebellious sects...
...each year for legal abortions. A professor at Stockholm's largest women's clinic was reported for "cruelty" because he told a patient that the abortion she was about to have was the same as murdering one of her previous children. An Uppsala doctor was called a "fascist" in letters to the press because he made the statement that Sweden loses the equivalent of one regiment a year through
Those who had joined because of the party's anti-fascist line and who had, until then, overlooked many of the other consequences of communism, bolted. Disenchanted by the pact, Hicks and Davis quickly left the party, followed, according to Hicks, by "at least half the rest of the inntellectuals...
That half the intellectuals broke away is notable. But more intriguing is the half which remained in the party. Some, of course, felt there might still be a way to reconcile the Party's apparently contradictory positions. For some, the anti-fascist position had never been the party's main appeal anyway. Others were emotionally tied to the group as their only social outlet; some just hung on. "I don't know how anyone could remain intellectually honest and remain in the party after 1939," Hicks says. "Many people, of course, had nothing else to do, nowhere else...