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There is little difference between Russian communism and German Nazism. Both countries are military tyrannies which may yet join forces to carve up Poland.
TH
HE indications are that Ger- many's next forward step will be concerned with the Uk- raine and perhaps with the small Baltic states, Lithuania, Latvia and Esthonia.
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Such a policy is a direct chal- lenge to the whole Slav race. It is the renewal of an ancient and mighty duel. The issue of that duel seems likely to depend on what Russia can and will do, and for the moment the policy of Russia appears to depend on the will of one
Stalin, by birth a peasant of the small sub- ject country of Georgia in the Caucasus, but who has now at- tained in Russia a position so much like that of the old Czars -a personality little seen by the public, closely guarded, unap- proachable, whose picture is everywhere, who is referred to in the press in terms of unres- trained adulation, and who is be- lieved to vield autocratic power almost wholly from behind the
scenes.
The very few foreigners who have met Stalin in Russia since his rise to power, speak of him as having kindly blue eyes with a suggestion of a smile in them, but also with more than sug- gestion of steely determination, while his manner is quiet and restrained, and his conversation that of a well-informed; intelli- gent man. The impression con- veyed is that of a character quite different from that of Hitler. There does not seem to be about Stalin anything of the neurotic, emotional, ranting fanātic such as Hitler is. Stalin suggests a cold- ly determined, practical man, who has moved steadily forward to a position of great power and who is resolved to keep it at all costs, but who at the same time cares little for the or tward trap- pings or adornments of power.
What his real character and
JIMMY'S KITCHEN policy are seems to be a mystery.
There have been indications in
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recent years that he really cares very little about the economic theories bequeathed · by Lenin. The constitution which he ap- proved for Russia in 1936 cer- tainly contains definite provisions for the restoration of private pro- perty in Russia to a certain ex- tent. At the time of its intro- duction it almost seemed as if Russia was on the way back to something like a normal country, governed by a small oligarchy, but without the rigid, unpracti- cal communist theories which were Lenin's way of revenging the execution of his brother by the Czar's police in pre-war days.
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Then in August, 1936, came a sudden change, heralded by the execution in Moscow of Zinovieff and his fellow-prisoners. Since then Russia has fallen back again into a condition of terror and bloodshed, though this time it has been amongst the communist leaders as well as other classes that the slaughter has taken place. Leading officers of the army, practically every admiral of the navy, many high of- ficers of the air force and an un- known but large number of ad- ministrative officials, members of the ruling communist party, have been put to death on charges of treason against Russia or plots against Stalin himself.
There is widé uncertainty as to the true explanation of all these executions judicial murders they may better be called, for the actual trials were obviously far- cical. There are some, amongst them Professor Seton-Watson, a recognised authority, who consi- der that some at least of the charges of treason were true, and that there really have been plots against Stalin and his gov- ernment.'
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Others, however, believe that truth and falsity have been hope- lessly confused in these Russian
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