(J.V.Stalin works, volume 11, p-207, Foreign Language
publishing Home Moocows, 1954)
Till them fascism in Italy could not create much
impact and in Germany Nazism with its Idea of
“Herevolk” (master race) could not gain enough
ground. So “fascism” was seen only as a method of
suppressing people for the imperialist countries to
prepare for wars. That is why in the above mentioned
Report Stalin said, “It is impossible to strengthen the
rear of imperialism without suppressing the workers.
And that is what fascism is for. “(Ibid, P.210)
Soviet Development
By the end of 1920’s Soviet Union had two great
developments which were unique in the history of the
social development. They started Collectivisation of
agriculture and five year plan (piatiletka)
Enemies started propaganda that peasants are
being forced to collective farming under state
repression. They tried to feed the world with a few
instances. But they did, and still do not, recognise
that there were subversions by the kulaks and in
certain areas to local people resorted to stray actions
against them. Nowhere in the world had so many
people risen up for a cause to build up a new
economic structure for a new society. Thus in the
USSR “new man” was born, who did not live only for
themselves but for society as a whole. In the words of
Anna Louis strong, who had passed a few years in
the prison in the USSR and has written much later a
book “Stalin Era”, commented about the collective
family that “changed the history of farming for the
world”(P 38, Stalin Era)
We are avoiding to present statistical details
because this article is meant for and directed towards
a different issue. There are necessary only to know
the reality at that time.
The same is true for the “Five Year Plan” Nowhere
in the world such a gigantic effort of developing the
economy as well as society as a whole took place in
such a democratic manner where every worker or
every peasant could say that it was not “a plan” from
the kremlin it was also “a plan” by them. The First
Five Year Plan was successful when the world
economy was reeling under the “Great Depression”.
How much successful it was? Let us not listen from
the Soviet propagandists but from a British Capitalist,
GarbhonJarvic on October 1932 : “Now I want it clearly
understood that I am neither Communist nor a
Bolshevik, Iam definitely a cap italist and an
Individualist,... Russia is forging ahead while all too
many of our factories and shipyards lie idle, and
approximately 3 million of our people desperately seek
work. Jokes have been made about the five-year plan
and its failure has been predicated. You may take it
as beyond question that under the five year plan much
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more has been accomplished than was really
anticipated... Don’t underrate the Russians and their
plans and don’t make the mistake of believing that
the Soviet Government must crash... Russia today is
a country with a soul and an ideal, Russia is a country
of amazing activity. I believe that the Russian objective
is sound.... And perhaps most important of all, these
youngsters and these workers in Russia have one
thing which is too sadly lacking in the capitalist
countries today, and that is – hope!”
But there is no straight line of development of
history there are zigzags. Fascism did not rest where
it was and the USSR could not get the opportunity to
develop socialism in a peaceful atmosphere. The
Second World War changed the whole scenario.
Fangs of Fascism were Out
In Italy and Germany fascism was gaining ground.
Though Germany had signed Rapallo Treaty, Nazis
were most inimical towards the Communists and the
USSR. Till 1928 they were a weak force, with an
aggressive policy. On August 1929, they attacked the
head quarter of the German Communist Party (KPD).
The chauvinistic idea of “Herenvolk” (master race)
created a mass hysteria of war mongering and anti
Communist anti-Jewish mindset among the people.
Once grabbing the power Hitter went on rampaging
against all opposition, especially the Communists and
carried on programs against Jews. The European
powers like Britain and France started appeasing it
hoping that fascists would direct their attacks on the
Socialist Russia. So even in September,1938, when
Germany wanted incorporation of Sudetanland from
Czechoslovakia as its own territory, the British and
French imperialist actually presented that territory in
a platter through the Munich Pact. The Czech
government was refrained from any resistance even
if the USSR wanted to help it. The Munich Pact was
signed on September 27, 1938 between the British
Prime Minister Nevile Chamberlain, French Prime
Minister Edward Daladier, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini
and Italian Foreign Minister GelcazzoCieno. And before
ink dried the German forces annexed Sudetenland
on October 1, 1938. In fact, this policy of appeasment
was pursued by Britain and France to avoid war
immediately with the understanding that it will act as
turning the focus of attack on the USSR. But that was
not to be. They actually did not listen to the warning
by comrade Stalin in January, 1934 (more than four
years before the Munich Pact) that “..fascism has now
become the most fashionable commodity among the
war-mongering bourgeois politicians. Iam not referring
to fascism in general, but, primarily to fascism of the
German type which is wrongly called national-socialism
- wrongly because the most searching examination
will fail to reveal even an atom of socialism in it.
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