SIX SOVIET WARS
DALLIN, DAVID J.
East and West Six Soviet Wars By David J. Dallin MAURICE THOREZ. THE FRENCH Commuhist leader, recently made a statement which did not attract the attention it deserved when he Mid: ". ....
...She has lived among the fishermen some three or four years...
...I put in...
...THE FRENCH Commuhist leader, recently made a statement which did not attract the attention it deserved when he Mid: ". . . The Soviet Union can never become an aggressor in repaid to another country...
...I HAVE WRITTEN BEFORE about the seaboard people of Maine...
...They dont have sense enough to club together and divide the transportation cost by six...
...Then his troops were thrown back, and the Red Army crossed into Poland...
...Since the interests of the socialist fatherland were at stake, however, the offensive, which resulted in a Soviet victory, was deemed justified...
...I had found a schoolteacher who was ready to undertake the necessary correspondence...
...However, with Stalin's support (and against Trotsky's belter judgment), Lenin rejected Lloyd George's oiler and instead ordered an advance into Poland and on to Germany...
...A handsomer couple I have never seen anywhere...
...Aggressive warfare* is not alien to Russian policy and, contrary to Thorez and thousands of his naive adherents, the Red Army has more than once invaded the territory of other nations...
...The way in which she turned to the right along the path following the shore suggested that she had definite business in that direction...
...Oh, yes," the weirmaa raid, "there were some people tried talking up that idea not long ago...
...The land ol Socialism cannot conduct a policy of aggression or war, which is characteristic of imperialist pawers...
...Finally, I recalled, an organizer had been sent up into the Penobscot Bay region, not far from the very cdve where these men were shoveling out their fish...
...As we waited we chatted of this and that with the weirman's attractive wife...
...The art of building it we inherited from the native redmen, and wc have made slight improvement on their techniques...
...There would be boatloads of fish to see and fishermen to talk to...
...The war ˆ Mr...
...The Soviet army never invaded another country...
...She asked why some Protestant preacher couldn't take the lead...
...The Soviet armies pursuing Polish troop...
...The Soviet-Finnish war broke out in November, 1939...
...These same fish bring high prices in the Boston and New York markets...
...The Soviet attack on Manehukuo was a pure case of offensive war, fought to attain national goals...
...These are word* which lost their meaning long ago...
...The weirman laughed aloud...
...I still like them...
...Through England, the Poles tried to obtain an armistice, and Lloyd George proposed the so-called Curzon Line as the future Rusao-Polish border...
...By this time the men had pulled a dory up onto the pebbly beach with a load of mackerel While they shoveled the fish into boxes and baskets they kept up a running commentary on their business...
...Tall, cleareyed, fair-spoken people, they show what qualities humanity can achieve free from any sort of compulsion and far from the crippling crowds When we arrived the men were out on the weir pulling up the nets and dipping the fish into their boats...
...That's all right for Catholics," he said...
...For at least three years the Soviet war against Germany remained a war of defense...
...But as representatives of the entire upstanding and independent tribe I would like to name the weirman of Seal Cove and his wife...
...Well, every darned one of them burns the gasoline to come up here in his launch and get his couple of bushels...
...They will stick together...
...But wftea each fellow would be out In hie own beat he would forget all about It...
...Think what they did up there...
...But what about Nova Scotia...
...A weir is a comparatively primitive device to snare the dumb and unwary denizens of the deep...
...For Russia it was not part of World War II, but a separate war...
...Two men own and run this weir...
...They not only built the structure themselves...
...He claimed it was right in principle for the Soviet state to wage aggressive war in this case, and in a speech took to task those who sought to distinguish "wars of defense" from "wars of conquest...
...M in Europe ended early in May, 1945...
...It all looked Sue...
...If any preacher tried that," he said, "he would soon find that he was a leader with no one behind him...
...Stalin lias reiterated again and again the lessons of the Soviet experience in the war with Pilsudski's Poland in 1920...
...In the winter time they make or mend their nets...
...were defeated near Warsaw and obliged to retreat...
...A half^hour of following Duffy's eager lead up and down and about that springy carpet of spruce needles brought us near enough so we could see that something was happening...
...Only, the demand for new "Soviet republics" was transformed into a call to build "people's democracies...
...The men were out on the weir drawing the nets...
...They need a couple of bushels apiece...
...The war against Japan was the sixth and last war fought by Soviet Russia in the thirty-year period just ending...
...What Thorez really means to say is that Russia is not and cannot be called an aggressor, even when she starts tear and pursues a policy of conquest, because die invariably fights for the "high ideals of liberation...
...She organized a hobby club last winter and the yoqngsters thought it was wonderful...
...This could have provided the basis for an honorable peace and for establishment of normal relations between Russia and Poland...
...We would not only be fools but even criminals if we promised never to commit acts which could be considered aggressive in a militarystrategic sense...
...Then came the fifth and greatest war waged by the Soviet Union, and the toughest and bloodiest of all wars Russia has ever engaged in...
...That means from about a cent to a cent-and-a-half a pound...
...I hope it is not merely an illusion of mine that they are an especially stout and admirable lot of people...
...It was Duffy, our affectionate and enterprising hound, who determined our course...
...Pilsudski attacked Russia and advanced far into Soviet territory...
...The peace treaty finally signed was fatworse for Russia than that which Lloyd George had advocated...
...M. Thorez studied communis m in Moscow when his country was occupied by Germany and certainly knows the facts about Soviet aggression against her neighbors...
...But Protestants would never do that...
...The Catholic priests helped along...
...Some of them build lobster traps...
...Soviet forces once again crossed tte Polish border in 1939, crushed the Poles, and occupied e large area assigned to the Soviet Union undef the secret terms of the Stalin-Hitler pact...
...LENIN AND HIS SUCCESSORS have always maintained that the question of which of two opposing camps fires' the first shot—i.e., which is the "aggressor" -is a mere technicality...
...It isn't enough...
...When diplomatic means proved futile, Russia resorted to military operations...
...With the success of Soviet arms, old slogans—"carry the war to the enemy's territory," "increase the number of Soviet republics"—were revived/ Thus, during its last stages the defensive war assumed ii different aspect...
...This route would bring us, after a short walk, to the weir at Seal Cove and we had half a mind to look once more into this trap for un- . wary fish...
...Lenin declared, "words of petty bourgeois pacifism...
...Of these, four were offensive wars...
...The defensive war was thus transformed into air offensive one, as Lenin was well aware...
...By this time Edith had got so interested that she could not keep out of the conversation...
...The Home Front The Weir People By William E. Bohn WITH THE END OF VACATION looming ominously ahead, we started out aimlessly through the spruce wood which borders on the sea...
...By that time Japan had been virtually defeated, and in fact capitulated six days later...
...There is plenty of work...
...Happy, amused, content to have our decisions made for us, Edith and I followed along...
...It consists, essentially, of a triangle of spiles and net which lures the poor fish into a great enclosed square from which there is, so far as his intelligence is concerned, no escape...
...In the thirty years behween 1920 and 1949 Soviet Russia has been involved in six foreign wars...
...Dallin will devote a second column to analysing Soviet wars In the next issue...
...A half...
...But in 1944, its substance changed...
...Russia would have denounced any other power fighting for possession of a railroad in "semi-colonial China" as imperialist and predatory...
...the remaining two started as defensive and turned into offensive wars...
...But to a world movement that has achieved initial success in one country and looks forward to ultimate victory throughout the globe, its own future appears as a series of crises at least some of which must be initiated by the movement itself...
...fiE CONFLICT with Poland IK i9W,~wh'Ich began with a Polish attack and developed into a Bolshevik offensive...
...not until August 9 did Russian troops cross the border into Manchukuo (Manchuria...
...also, Thorez is well acquainted with the doctrine permitting and prescribing aggressive warfare whenever success is likely...
...This constituted a clearcut case of Soviet aggression, although the first Red Army bulletins accused the Finns of having attacked Russia...
...If the cause is right, initiative is but a question of expediency...
...Time to think...
...MY MIND RAN BACK to a time, many years ago, when I tried to interest a group of Maine fishermen in cooperation...
...These waterside kids deserve some sort of a break...
...Briskly she set out with nose to the ground and tail wagging like a banner...
...Then my weirman gave an answer to which I would like to give wide circulation...
...they produced its raw materials from the surrounding forest and constructed the great spile-driver, floating on a scow, with which the spiles were driven into the ocean bottom...
...Just let me tell you what these men are like...
...but It didn't take...
...dozen of the lobstermen come up here from Southwest Harbor and other places to get the bail for their traps...
...The men would be all right while they were- in a meeting...
...The Cooperative Association was willing to go ahead...
...Yes, there would be time to think if they had anything to think about or to think with," the weirman's wife said...
...For most of their catch they get from $1.15 to $1.50 a bushel...
...History proves otherwise...
...The bigger fish bring 12 or 15 cents a pound...
...The second war was fought against ChinaManchuria in 1929 over control of the Chinese Eastern Railway, which was pivotal in Soviet interests in Northern Manchuria...
...So I said to them: "Look, haven't you fishermen ever thought of starting a cooperative, having your own refrigerating plants and marketing your fish yourselves...
...The fishermen now have their own storage plants and run their own business...
...This war was concluded by the Treaty of Riga in 1521...
...She would do it again...
Vol. 32 • August 1949 • No. 33
