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...United Nations organization to keep the peace must be established. In the Yalta argument about U.N. Charter details, Roosevelt and Stalin put the emphasis on the big power approach, leaving it for Churchill, the "imperialist," to defend, sometimes warmly, sometimes cynically, the rights of small nations before the law. Russian objections to U.S. voting-procedure sections of the draft charter foreshadowed the lawless future course of Communist policy; but all arguments over the charter came back to the familiar door, the necessity of total Big Three cooperation and agreement...
...from wholly trusting their Russian wartime comrades, Churchill and Roosevelt did not even trust each other. Roosevelt and many of his entourage believed that there would indeed be a postwar struggle. They saw the antagonists as Communist Russia and imperialist Britain. Roosevelt saw his own role as balancing between them, thus keeping the Grand Alliance intact through his own skillful brokerage. Aware of what Roosevelt and his advisers were doing, Churchill had to half-muzzle himself. If he opposed the Russians too strongly, Roosevelt would swing to their side. At one point in the Yalta proceedings, the record shows that...
AMONG the nations today obviously exist two antagonistic camps: one is the anti-imperialist camp, that is, the camp of democracy and socialism, with Soviet Russia as its leader; the other is the imperialist camp, that is, the camp of war, anti-democracy and capitalism, with the United States as the leader...
...people do not stand on this side, then they stand on the other; if they do not join the anti-imperialist camp and help in the struggle for liberation of all the enslaved people and laboring masses in the world or struggle for their own liberation, then they join the imperialist camp and help American imperialism and its running dogs to enslave the peoples of their world or their own people. There is no third path. If somebody thinks a nation can achieve revolutionary victory alone without unity and assistance from the forces of world revolution, [or] after its victorious...
World revolution is Communism's ultimate objective, but it can always be postponed in the interests of the Russian state. It was postponed by Stalin when he defeated the imperialist Trotsky, and again, when the Russian people were rallied against the Nazi invasion, to defend not the revolution but Mother Russia...