Comments on Soviet Policy
DALLIN, DAVID J.
Comments on Soviet Policy By David J. Dallin Twenty Nations Do Not Recognize Russia THEEB still exist twenty governments which have net recognized the Soviet regime. This may seem strange, when...
...It was crested by the Soviet Government, as a matter of expediency, because of the difficult international situation prevailing in the Far East due to Jspan's intervention...
...The head of the Department, Andrzej Witos, who had played an important role in the Lublin committee, disappeared, and his office was taken over by the Premier himself...
...said in the House pi Commons on Jsnuary 31: "In June, 1939, we sent a mission to Russia to try to arrive st s treaty with Russia against Germany, My belief is that, in effect, what the Russians ssid to us wss 'let us hsvs Poland to the Curaon Lino snd ths Bsltic provinces snd we will hsve an alliance with you.' We said 'no' snd I personally think ws wore quite right...
...Communist gains will be bigger than those of the Socialist parties...
...Russia, perceiving some of the abuses of excetiive political democracy has placed atrong emphasis on economic ¦/doataj»acy.'~V • • Somewhere there is a practical balance between economic snd politicsl democracy...
...No, it was the Republic of the Far East which emerged in 1020, and whole short history mfcy help to understand some current developments...
...Is there an answer to that...
...It is obvious, however, that there were, as always in Soviet Russia, too many arrests, too great haste, and too few real reforms...
...The Republic opened a diplomatic representation, with Mrs...
...The republic was ruled by a Council of ministers, not people's commissars...
...There waa no alliance and what happens next...
...It seems perfectly terrible to mo that, as s rssult of whst is going on, as I said on another occasion, the seeds of the next war have been sown...
...he first decree had set the limit at five hectares...
...The commissar was purged, of course...
...What was it...
...be wss likewise ousted...
...Their stronghold is the west of Europe, particularly Britain, France, Belgium and the Scandinavian countries...
...Eight countries are ruled by coalition governments which include the Communists - with about 140,000,000 inhabitants...
...Teacher and Pupil ThERE was once a republic which in its constitution proclaimed itself a Democratic Republic and whoee leaders were emphasizing its "bourgeois-democratic" character...
...Socialist and Communist influence In Em ope TrllRTEEN United Nstions in Europe are entirely or partly free from German occupation today (if we include the three Baltic states, the figure will rise to sixteen...
...Karavayeva, and also another letter opposing it...
...In order to appease the USA snd win American sympathies, a "bourgeois-democratic Republic" waa created, and in 1921 it sent its delegates to New York ana Washington...
...In September-October 1922 they finally left the Msritime Province...
...Was it Lublin Poland...
...Soviet law*, abolishing the universal ballot and prcicribing nationalization, and other Communist meaeurtt, were extended to this territory...
...The Soviet Government officially "recognized" the Far Eastern Republic as an independent state on August 16, 1920...
...You are proposing not only to destroy Polsnd in offset—you are giving away the Baltic provinces and doing so In no uncertain terms...
...total population, about 216,000,000...
...Three regimes are Communist dictatorships: Russia, Poland, Yugoslavia (plus the Baltic states...
...Socialist snd Labor parties are part of the governmental coalition in five nations, with a total population of 85 million...
...Likewise the four neutral governments—democratic Switzerland, Socialist Sweden, Fascist Spsin snd Portugal—do not include Communists...
...But Lenin's methods of sppessing the world by fsked constitutions, by "sovereign snd independent" government*" and by "bourgeois-democratic" phrase* have been Inherited by his sble pupil, who todsy Is the ruler of all the Russian...
...Now where do we And ourselves ? Wo And ourselves fighting to give Russia precisely those territories which, hsd we allowed her have them in 1089, would have prevented the outbreak of war at all...
...Historic Irony Richsrd Stokes (Labor MP...
...21) it is clear that the first crisis and a severs purge took place shortly after the reforms started...
...Aqrarian Reforms in Poland 1 HE Sgrsrisn reform brought about by the Lublin-Warsaw puppet government in wartime is sn interesting experiment...
...States believe that we hsve overemphasized whst may be called politicsl or Bill-of-Rights democracy...
...It appears incompatible with the newly scquired nstionsl dignity and prestige of the Soviet Government to urge recognition by these twenty, mostly small, nstions...
...The available information is not sufficient for a final judgment on the reform and on the ways of its realization...
...And, above all, it was an independent and sovereign state...
...I don't disagree...
...Wallace, on November 8, 1942, addressing s meeting to celebrate the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, you made the following statement: • ' "Some in the United...
...But somehow the situs-tion must eventuslly be "normalized...
...The army wss not Red, it was a People's Army...
...On January 25, 1945, addressing the Commerce Committee of the United States Senate, you said: ** "America led the world in establishing politicsl democracy...
...In paragraph 146 the constitution prescribed that "the institution of private property is maintained...
...The Communist parties, on the other hand, have made great progress...
...This may seem strange, when Russia belongs to the Big Three deciding the fate of the world...
...Gonchsrov as its snvoy, in Moscow...
...Free elections, freedom of speech and press were, of course, guaranteed...
...Or Tito's Yugoslavia...
...An outright negation of private property as an institution is absolutely inadmissible, but through different restriction* (for instance, confiscation of the enterprises of enemies of the people . . .) an interim situation, favorable for Communist control, mast bo established...
...The main help and hope against the Japanese wss the USA...
...It must lead the 'world once more in itrtnghtening and extending political democracy by firmly establishing economic democracy...
...After the Washington International Conference the Jspanese had to leave most of occupied Russian territory...
...Immediately afterward*, the Far Eaitern Republic wa* incorporated into the Soviet etate...
...The imminent upheavals in Germany, Austria, Norway, and Denmark will not, or SO it sec ma today, essentially alter this picture...
...This was one of the rare instances of a political discussion in the Soviet press...
...Besides, the Soviet Union is so great and Switzerland so small, that "it is not appropriate for us to feel hurt by her...
...this must be avoided...
...While giving it* recognition to the new sovereign state, Lenin's Central Committee adopted, however, a resolution which remained secret for many years...
...A commissar of the Radzin region hss explained thst in 1945 the peasants will have to deliver to the state one-third of the crops, and this is, according to him, the essential tim of the reform...
...She_ made this proposition: "A complete political snd economic boycott of these countries by the Soviet Union could serve as an effective weapon...
...all citizens and private companies are guaranteed the inviolability of their movable and immovable property...
...From a report in War and th* Working Clatt (1944, , No...
...Only two governments—Britsin snd Greece—do not Include representatives of Communism...
...in one of them (Belgium) the leadership in the government belongs to the Socialist Party...
...Dees the conspicuous difference between these two statements mean that you have changed your opinion in the interval, that you havs grown- wiser 7 ' Or does it msan that you have two different ways of formulating your opinion, one for the United State* Senate and one for a meeting to celebrate the Overthrow of democratic government in Russia...
...The favorable impression from this example of "freedom of the pre.«s" is somewhat, marred, however, by the fact that the letters, without any doubt, were pre-arranged by the Department, as a prod to the last Mohicans of the non-recognition era...
...War and the Working Clans, the official publication of the Soviet Foreign Office, printed a letter of the Soviet author Anna Karavayeva: "How is it possible," she asked, "that there still are countries which do not recognize the Soviet Union...
...No Soviet existed in the republic...
...There is certsinly sn important difference between the incorporation of ths Fsr East, a "Russian" region, snd Polsnd or Yugoslsvis...
...The, influence of Socialist and Communist parties in the governments of these countries will be seen from the following...
...In My Opinion By MdX EASTMAN I HE following question might be asked of Henry Wallace before he is confirmed for any office in the United States Government: ' Mr...
...The present strength snd influence of the Socialist parties corresponds, approximately, to their prewar position...
...When Moscow decided not to take part at the International Aviation Conference in Chicago, (because she was unwilling to accept thejproposed "freedoms" of the air) it seized the opportunity to remind the world of the need of general and final recognition of the Soviet Government and pointed st three of the participants— Switzerland, Spain and Portugal—as the main obstacle...
...Off go the Germans to Moscow and Von Ribbcntrop is askad the same question...
...If these people have neither heart nor insight, we have to slap them at their only receptive spot—their purse...
...The Foreign Policy Association arranged s luncheon in New York on March 4, 1922, at which the delegates as well as the Americans present emphasized the "democratic" nature of the young state, with universal suffrage and protection of the rights of private property...
...Its author, P. Pavlenko, said that the Soviet Union will be accused, if it resorts to a boycott, of doing injustice to small nations...
...The resolution said: "The bourgeois-democratic character of the buffer state is purely formal...
...And, a* far as the "sovereignty" wss concerned, Lenin'* instructions added: "The Control Committee of the Communist Party [Moscow] controls the policies of the Republic through the medium of the Dal bureau...
...Our not participating in the problem of recognition will serve as the strongest argument...
...To appease the peasantry a new regulation was introduced, granting land to farmers whose former allotments were below ten hectares (24 acres), if they are heads of big families...
...Armed conflicts have taken place between peasants...
...agents of the emigre government" have been made responsible for the murders, of course...
...The reports seem to confirm the impression that its chief aim was the increase of grain funds of the state by the division of estates, after a great number of Polish landlords had fled their estates in fear of persecutions...
...In Bialystock an official opposed the hasty measure...
...In the next issue the magazine printed one letter by four trade-union officials supporting the plan of Mrs...
...He says 'yes, not only may you have the Baltic provinces but as much ss you want of Poland on the oast...
...The scope of their expansion becomes obvious by comparison with the prewar situation when just one nation was ruled by a Communist regime, with Communist leaders Jp no coalition governments...
...Official reports, always optimistic and favorable, do not reveal, however, the whole picture...
Vol. 28 • February 1945 • No. 8
