Word: russias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tanaka: "I hope we can all live and prosper peacefully. But I will struggle all my life-and die if I must-to keep the few from dominating the many as they did in militaristic Japan and do in Communist Russia...
...Prefer Death." The Military Assistance Program (M.A.P.) faced a far harder fight and a closer vote than the North Atlantic Treaty (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Opponents of the arms plan say that it will cost too much, and that it might provoke Soviet Russia to attack. The plan's advocates reply that a Communist victory in Europe would be far more expensive for the U.S., and that Soviet Russia is provoked to aggressive acts by the weakness, not by the strength, of the non-Communist world...
Matsumoto: "Nothing in the world is more important than Communism. There is no truth except dialectical materialism. I wish I could go to a university in Russia where it is the only system taught. When Japan becomes Communist, we will teach nothing but Marxism here...
Tanaka: "That is why there is no more liberty in Russia than there was in Japan when we were allowed to believe only in the Emperor's divinity...
Matsumoto: "We don't want to imitate Russia. We want national independence. This cannot be obtained without Communism, because American capitalists are colonizing Japan, and we would end this...