ENT Y-EIGHT years
0, on November 7,
17 (October 25 in
Russian calendar),
tkers and Peasants
seized power from
‘erialist and social-
hic remnants of cor-
arism, and set up
Soviet Socialist Re-
Twenty-eight years
ovemmber 7, in the
r cf the first World
link was broken—~
g the chain of a
stem of predatory

, m.

One-sixth of
©s surface, and near-
sullion people, were
In the galling yoke
alist exploitation.
2t people feel a spe-

in the annual cel-
oof this great anni-
‘for it was they
_ chosen by History
_ that rotten link
-€ it possible for
_to tread upon a
-. to human free-

‘rberations of the Oc-
olution shook the
imperialist wolves
‘| snapped: the Com-
again, and the great
of Marx and. Engels
‘ie living bone and
_ENIN. The right of

form governments
im choice was not a
“cineiple of interna-
‘tions, and by 1918

of a dozen or more

powers, Canada in-
-e invading the ter-
e Soviet Union, and
‘£ arms, seeking to

Soviet people _to
2>rnments acceptable

Street, the Paris
hreadneedle Street
@.

rentionists were de-
‘n every front, and
the soil of the So-

The 28th Anniversary of The

USSR wom By Tom McEwen, LPP Provincial Chairman

viet Union. The international
proletariat helped, but the So-
viet peoples took the full blows
of the counter-revolution upon
their breasts .. = and won
If we cannot bring down this
socialist nightmare with force,

we can do it with hunger,”
screamed the leaders of the
“ehristian” nations, and the

great blockade was on. But
hunger was no stranger to the
Russian people... it was their
normal lot under Tsarist abso-
lutism and corruption—and the
Soviet people survived the or-
deal of hunger also.

“Tf we cannot destroy this
socialist nightmare with hun-
ger, we will do so by falsehood,
misrepresentation, distortion
and slander,” screamed the lea-
ders of the “christian” nations,
and the presses began to roll,
the “literature” to pour out,
the lies to spread over count-
less billions of pages of the
written word in all languages,
and out of this putrid swamp
of prejudice, racial and nation-
al hatred—a Hitler was spawn-
,ed.

As I write this, I have be-
fore me clippings from the Ca-
nadian papers of 1918... clip-
pings yellowed with the years,
but with their lies, and their
hopes for a Koltchak-Denekin-
Wrangle or Petlurist victory,
strangely blending -with— the
hope for a Hitler and with the
anti-Soviet speculation of to-
day—in spite of all that has
passed in those short 28 years.

qoe First Socialist State of

Workers and Peasants and
Soldiers deputies prevailed
against all odds. From a shat-
tered economy; from stark
hunger and privation; with
nothing but its bare hands and
titan heart, IT BUILT AND
‘BUILT.

Its Five Year Plans of indus-
trialization, which raised a na-
tion of 200 million people from
a backward peasant economy
to a great industrial nation are
only part of the mighty chron-
icle of its gigantic achievement.

The new Soviet women went
without lipstick and silk stock-
ings and other knick-knacks in
order that the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics might have
blast furnaces . . . in order to
build the -great steel and coal-
centre of Magnitigorsk.

The new Soviet men went
without cigarette lighters and
fountain pens and suits in order
that the USSR would have its
great Dneiperstroi Dam to give
power and life to the pulsing

industrial heart of the vast
Ukraine.
Peasants became scientsts,

and science became the servant
of a people building a New
Order: +

You remember how all those
plans “failed,” and how the
paid scribblers of the commer-
cial press avidly earned their
keep by the monotonous repe-
tition that “socialism” had col-
lapsed in Russia? They are still
at it, in varied theme, but their.
ravings are no longer “news”
in the old sense. They now cov-
ertly threaten the creative
atomic energy of socialism
with the destructive use of the
atomic bomb.

e@

ON this 28th anniversary we

too in Canada - feel justly
proud. of the great achieve
ments of our Soviet ally.

We know now that the
Five Year Plans, realized at
such a cost of self-denial by
the Soviet people, WERE
DECISIVE IN THE SECOND
WORLD WAR AGAINST
GERMAN NAZI.- IMPERI-
ALISM AND ITS’ EVIL
BROOD.

We know now that had the
Young Soviet Republic not
prevailed. against the armies of
intervention between 1918-24;
not prevailed against hunger
and blockade; had they not pre-
vailed against the odds of

building a Socilalist economy.

from |nothing; had they not
built ,the great instrument of
Soviet defense the Red Army
there would have been no Stal-
ingrad and in victory for us.
Naziism
stepped from continent to con-
tinent, from hemisphere to

JOSEPH STALIN

hemisphere until the world was
chained in its grip.

That did not happen, because
in 1917 history called upon the
stage a New People—a people
out of whose kin. came great
leaders and teachers, great
poets, muSicians and warriors.
A people who had given, birth
to an Alexander Nevsky, |a

‘by Minerva Cooper

‘estern powers has
‘nd British, French
“roops against them.
ing shame is that
Sed Japanese troops
‘min their determin-
im back the rising
2 people towards in-

and the Phillipines,
2 being maintained
of influence. There
investments to pro-
ionary forces, using
as their spokesman,
2 hope that Japan
€ used to police the
imperialism. On the
the Soviet Union
I0werful example in
which she recently
with free China.
spokesman for the
ind independence of
soples in harmony
we spirit of the At-
ter.

lopment of British
rican policy in Eur-
less disturbing. A

powerful factor in their reluc-
tance to dismember the Ger-
man cartels is the memory of
pre-war investments. American
holdings alone in Germany
totalled 420 million dollars. ‘The
same reactionary forces which
are manoeuvering to restore
the economic base of German
imperialism look to the forma-
tion of a powerful “Western
Bloc” in Europe as a means of
further mending their political
and economic fences, though
the election of the hundred and
fifty-two Communists to the
French Chamber of Deputies
has dealt a severe blow to their

hopes.

Crystal clear conclusions ean
be drawn from these develop-
ments. Where the rights of the
peoples, to which the great na-
tions of the world have pledged
themselves, are violated, these
are the danger spots of the
world, and the peace of the
world is menaced once again.
Where the United Nations
have acted toegther and in har-
mony, the peoples are advanc-
Ing in their tasks of recon-
struction. Where unilateral

PACIFIC ADVOCATE

‘in adherence to

agreements have ibeen under-
taken, in violation of the prin-
ciple of Big Five Unity, Power
politics in the old discredited
sense begin to operate once
more. The only basis then for
peace between the Soviet Union
and the Western Powers, lies
that unity
forged in the fires of war, and
having for its foundation the
four freedoms of the Atlantic
Charter.

T must be clear to every
thinking man and woman that
there are forces at work in our
own country which are seeking
to rupture the peaceful rela-
tions between Canada and the
Soviet Union. Musty old lies
are being dusted off and varn-
ished with new propaganda to
hide the real nature of the fric-
tion with the Soviet Union.
The campaign against the So-
viet Union is prompted by
those capitalist interests who
are the friends of exiled land-
lords and corrupt privileged;
the forces determined to pre-
serve their interests in the
German cartels and their in-
vestments in the Phillipines.
They require agents who will
use any mask to cover their in-
tent. They must be exposed for

the war mongers that they are.
“In the name of Christianity,
they carry out a diabolical plan
which would plunge the world
into a war more terrible than
the one from which we have

=emerged. In the name of de-

mocracy they pursue a course
which would destroy it. In the
name of free enterprise they
would place shackles on the
freedom of all peoples.

HE responsibility rests on

each one of us to see to it
that that unity which won us
the victory over fascism, must
now be preserved to maintain
the peace of the world. Focal
centers of unrest in the world
are precisely those points where
that unity is being threatened.
We must demand that our gov-
ernment support a policy of co-
operation im every problem
that faces the United Nations.
We must demand freedom for
the colonial peoples. It is our
solemn duty to see to it that
the terms of the Atlantic
Charter and the Teheran, Yalta
and Potsdam agreements are
earried fully into effect. This is
the only basis for peace be-
tween the Soviet Union and the
Western Powers. This is the
only basis for world peace.

would have goose-_

Pushkin, and a Dostovesky
while in chains, must inevit-
ably give birth to their greatest

sons and daughters under free-.

dom—to a Lenin, a Shostoke-
vitch, a Stalin. Their names are
legion, as were their sacrifices,
in the great patriotic war for
human freedom.

As Hitler’s legions invaded
the territory of the USSR in
1941, the age-old dream of the
Munichite imperialists seemed
near realization. For a quarter
of a century these silk-hatted
earrion .had worked with un-
holy zeel to unleash the dogs
of war against the first Social-
ist State. They risked the fate
of their own people in the
gamble and gave little heed to
the cost, just so long as the
Soviet Union could be destroy-
ed. They had taught them-
selves to fondly believe that
the Soviet people were a giant
with feet of clay. They lived to
see those Red Army feet kick
the German Wehrmacht from
Stalingrad to Berlin amd
trample it into the rubble of
the Tiergarten. :

EN we celebrate this great

28th Anniversary of the
October Revolution we cele-
brate the mighty accomplish-
ments of the Soviet people, its
Red Army, and its leader, Mar-
shall Stalin. We also celebrate
the growing and
friendship between the common
people of Canada with the
people of the Soviet Union. As
we look back on the last six
year of devastating war, with
all its horror and human suf-
fering, let us recall to mind the
words of a Canadian working-

alliance

‘class poet, Joe Wallace, written

on the fifth anniversary of the
October Revolution, but doubly
true of the 28th anniversary.—

“Russia, salute; Not to your

lands, ‘i

But to your deathless work-
ingclass

Who broke the spears of all
the Tsars

Upon their breasts, THAT

WE MIGHT PASS.”

Trice in a generation the So-

cialist people — their valiant
Red Army and their indomitable
STALIN — have broken “the
spears of all the tsars’”’ in order
that humanity might pass to-
wards a fuller happier life.
Let us in Canada celebrate the
28th amniversary of the Oc-
tober Revolution to strengthen
the struggle for UNITY: unity
in friendship with our victor-
ious Soviet neighbors; unity to
win the peace and security of
Canada, made possible by their
sacrifices and Socialist leader-
ship.

The 28th anniversary of the
October Revolution sees the
USSR upon the stage of hu-
man destiny as an equal among
nations—a valiant ally in war
—a brilliant leader in Peace.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1945

oF