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one-party dictatorial state they seek to build
up with themselves in control.
(c) Communism as the Kremlin catspaw: the fate of
states which have come within the Cominform fold:
the hostility of Russian Communism to the new
liberal national movements in Asia; her use of
Asian nations as pawns in the game of Russian power-
politics.
The association of Communism
Cominform
Kremlin
should be built up, primarily on the facts of Russian isolationism
and imperialism since 1945, using the small European nations
as example of how Russia treats small nations occupied by Russian
armies. China is too big in area and population and China has
never been over-run by Russian troops so the analogy does not
hold there. But it would hold for the smaller nations in
Balkani sed S.E.Asia.
of
There should not be an attempt to build up a picture
Communism in Russia. There is little local knowledge of
Russia,
and the wish to use events and policies in Russia against Russia may suggest that the campaign is to destroy Communism in Russia by precipitating war or may raise an interest which will
bear a red-der fruit than was intended. The ways of life in
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Asia are different and the standard of life and liberty 10
Asia is too low for the ordinary man in the Asian Street to have the same instinctive re-action to the normal anti-Russian propa- ganda as is assumed in the West, or to see any great contrast between a Malayan squatter's plot and a Central Asian collective. For instance, it is easter and more effective to dramatise an
invasion of Korea than it is the transfer of labour for gold-
mining in the sub-Arctic regions of Russia. If there is time enough and intelligence enough in the audience it is better to teach them the internal organisation of a country they can actively imitate than one on which they can only exercise the negative virtue of not succumbing to temptation.
But most
important.......
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