» Germany attacked — and the Polish

little

ners and their Western patrons said

ot US: had no choice but to
aa ter its own security since it was
aay clear that the idea was to turn
while to war on the Soviet Union
welch the Western “allies” sat and
a . .. So then the Soviet Union
Ger a non-aggression pact with
many — Hitler signed because he

Wanted to establish his ascendency of

foe mPerialist states and augment his
count before taking on the socialist
i Ty, while the U_ S.R. gained time
Strengthen its defc.uses.

troops Poland collapsed, the Soviet
Byelo went into the Ukrainian and
on russion territories that had been
eyed by Poland after World War

» And the U.S.S.R.
ae out the war bases Hitler
States use in Finland and the Baltic
Th COMMUNIST RECORD
munist record of the Canadian Com-
ist a as. of the worldwide Commun-
Perc: is clear and true. We
very. 4 of the fascist peril from the
ant en and called for unity to de-
work _ threat of a new world war. We
ae hard _to achieve those aims

joined with all who would parti-

Ci
Pate in those actions. Our members

a among the foremost of those who
slau ee Spain to halt the fascist on-
pine there. We called for‘ a_ last-
Deane pact between _ the Western
sto Cracies and the Soviet Union to

P Hitler in his tracks in 1939.
took en that failed, we boldly (and it
trea hoe) exposed the continuing
8 ery of the Men of Munich. We
eeatawed, imprisoned and hound-
uring the “phoney war” period
fae big shot politicians were openly
ns that Hitler “switch the
and when Canadian forces were

viet Union.

Union: Hitler attacked the Soviet
chill’s oe : 1941, we applauded Chur-
allia ecision for a British-Soviet war
t

ame herOus advice of Truman and his
the shay counterparts, expressed in
White irase “let them bleed each other
joined Our members and supporters
rots the armed forces, worked on all
fn for victory. We advocated a
Dulso vote in the plebiscite on com-
secon Service. We agitated. for the
ayed parent in Europe which was de-
mised i two years after it was pro-
Sought y Churchill and Roosevelt. We
Coalitio to form a wide labor-liberal
a me to speed the day of victory
adva Open the doors to democratic

Nce in the postwar.

The TO WIN THE PEACE

sion re had been the. Great Depres-
Thirties known as the Hungry
lifte “ey in Canada. It had not wholly
= ahh by 1939. We still had mas-
ity. Weemployment, want and insecur-

arehouses full of goods.

“an 2 almost overnight we witnessed

By gromic “miracle.” The govern-
dits, et money and extended cre-
aDpeared 4° power and raw materials
Were y in abundance. Working hands
job, re longer idle, everyone had a
bodice. was even a labor shortage.
Nd ai ton rolled out. We built ships
. panes in Canada and all sorts
had a isticated machinery. Farmers
Fa difficulty selling their produce.
lion cact the same time over one mil-
in fe ian men (and women) were
armed services as well.
rae. Stacie’ — like all miracles —
(D man-made.
Versary. forget that on this 25th anni-
at for of V-Day, when we are told
Must one mystic reason industries
Of ione closed down, workers robbed
S, and farmers prevented from

1

set about

the verge of being sent to “help —
Finland” in war against the So- °

Nce, and exposed the cynical and ©

growing bread . . .)

Even while the war was still under ;

way the Communists projected the
same effort to build up Canada in the
postwar as had been put into produc-
tion for the defeat of fascist Germany
and militarist Japan.

There was no physical reason then
why it couldn’t have been done. Nor
is there any such reason today.

AND THE GLORY

We have spoken of the horrors of
World War Two, but we must also

speak of its glories. Our Canadian

servicemen overseas and workers at
home performed deeds of valor. But
the unparalleled epic of glory unfolded
on the vast stretches of the Soviet
Union, from Leninigrad to Moscow,
Stalingrad and the Caucasus, during
what Soviet people rightly call the
Great Patriotic War.

The people of the whole of enslaved
Europe rose to fight the fascist slave-
masters. It was a people’s war and a
people’s victory.

As the aftermath of the war popular
governments embracing the anti-
fascist forces came to power in a
whole number of countries, and. al-
though in Italy and France ithe U.S.
succeeded in getting them replaced by
Right-Wing administrations, over a
dozen new states—including Eastern
Germany—took the road to socialism.
Carrying out its commitment to the
Allies the. Soviet Union destroyed the
Japanese forces in Manchuria, opened
the way to the victory of People’s
China, and provided an impetus to the
colonial struggles for independence
throughout the world. en

At the Nuremburg trial those fascist
leaders who hadn’t done themselves in
like Hitler, been punished by their own
people like Mussolini, or escaped to
havens (Hess in a British prison, Eich-
mann for a while in South America)
were tried and sentenced. It became
‘an international crime, punishable by
law, to plot or engage in military ag-
gression. (U.S. crimes in Indochina are
now being investigated.)

THE COLD WAR

We celebrate that magnificent world-
changing victory on this 25th anniver-
sary of V-Day. Today the forces of
peace, democracy and socialism are
vastly stronger than they were in the
1930's.

But the atom bombs dropped by the
U.S. on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on
August 9, 1945, wantonly killing over
100,000 men, women and children,
served notice that a new pretender
had arisen to the “world order” mis-
sion of Adolf Hitler. And soon after
the rigged-up “spy” trials in Canada
provided the “moral” excuse for the
Cold War.

Remembering V-Day, the war it end- -

ed, and the history that led up to it,
we must not forget what followed.
We had the “cold war” with NATO

—continuation of Hitler’s “anti-Comin-
tern pact”—that in 20 years has spent
1,250 billion dollars on armaments, es-
tablished more than 450 major U.S.
military bases on foreign soil, placed
U.S. armies as policemen in 64 coun-
tries, enthroned reactionary regimes in
country after country, spawned the
CIA “cloak and dagger” diplomacy and
politics by murder, conducted wars
directly or through stooges in South-
east Asia and Korea, the Middle East
and Congo, Central America and the
Caribbean to mention the best known,
and sought to force Hungary, Czecho-
slovakia and other socialist and anti-
imperialist states back into the fold of
imperialism.

_ Today they are desperately speeding
up the spreatiing of their “little” wars
because the sands of time are running
out on them and the day of their utter
rout draws nigh.

LR A ee red Hitler regimental
to the cobbles in Moscow's historic Red on sg sis panne

Soviet and American servicemen, having driven into Hitler's R
and west, met on the River Elbe, in April and rushed to embrace = oo one

in-arms and pledge undying friendship.

The iron winds

blew in
their faces,
But they
marched on
While
superstitious
fear crawled in
enemy hearts:
Who is attacking?
Are they
human beings?
Are they mortal?
Yes, we
were mortal,
and few of us
survived,
But we all kept
our oath
to the end
Defending our
sacred
motherland.
Inscription on
a monument
on Mamayev Hill
in Volgograd

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1970—Page 7