Page 12 — P.A. Features, December 2

y Viadimir Komarov

Hero of Socialist Labor, President of the
Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

MOSCOW, USSR— (By Direct Cable to P.A.).
When we think of how near the day of final victory is

we always bear in mind that
so thoroughly as to make it
again. We must not forget that
the’ Hitlerites have scattered
the poisonous seeds of national
hatred far beyond the confines
of Germany. Unless they are
all destroyed these seeds may
sprout again. It is for this rea-
son that in the generous armis-
tice terms with Germany’s for-
mer satellites there is a provi-
sion for revocation of the infa-
mous and savage anti-Jewish
laws. The adversaries whom
we. forced to their Imees we
have thus freed from the most
shameful and abhorrent surviv-
als of cannibalism. It makes
one proud and happy to be 2
citizen of a country which
comes forward before the en-

tire world as a mighty strong-
hold of humanism.

In 1931 Fossoh Stalin wrote
in reply to an inquiry of the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
“National and racial chauvin-
ism is a survival of manhating
customs which are characteris_
tic of the period of cannibalism.
Antisemitism, as the extreme
form of racial chauvinism is
the most dangerous survival of
cannibalism. In the USSR
antisemitism is persecuted most
severely as a phenomenon pro-

fascism must be stamped out
impossible for it to ever rise

foundly inimical to the Soviet
system. Accordingly always in
the USSR active antisemites are
punished with death.”

In the USSR anyone who
would dare, by word or deed,
to restrict the rights of any
nation; anyone who would in-
cite one national against an-
other; anyone who would active-
ly foster antisemitism or sany
other form of national hatred

would be severely punished ac-
cording to law.
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TSERE are various indices to
measure the level of culture.
One of them is the absence of
racial chauvinism. -Indeed ra=>
cial chauyinism and for one
thing its extreme form, anti-
semitism, is a most dangerous
survival of eannibalism, a more
Sinister manifestation of bar-
barity. The farther mankind
progresses, the fewer are the
survivals of this form of bar-
barity. These survivals have
become particularly acute at
present because Hitler has been
trying to stop the wheel of his-
‘tory and turn mankind back to
the darkest times of barbarism.

ago the Informa-
of the People’s

Two years
tion Bureau

Commissariat for Foreign Af-
fairs of the USSR published one

‘of the most stirring documents

of the present war, a document
on how the Hitlerite- authorities
are putting into effect their
plan for extermination of the
Jewish population of Hurope.
Referring to the facet that Hit-
ler herded into the territory of
Poland several million Jews
with the objejet of slaying
them, the document states: “As
is to be seen from information
on hand, there are no atrocities
which the Hitlerite degenerates
have not employed in order to
hasten the monstrous mass an-
nihilation of hundreds of thou-
sands of civilians. Besides be-
ing mowed down with machine
guns, men, women and children
are killed in specially equip-
ped gas chambers, murdered by
electric current, burned in
masses; prisoners of concen-
tration camps or poisoned with
prussic acid. Special bonuses
are paid in order to encourage
the individual murder of exiles.
In camps it is an obligatory
rule to iill any prisoner who
has been ill for more than two
days.. They have specially or-
ganized the wholesale murder
of children below 12 years of
age.”

This document, while describ-
ing sadistie cruelties. such as
even the middle ages did not
know, reports also numerous
eases of noble and self-sacrific-
ing compassion for one another
displayed by the peoples of
Europe who have found them-
selves under Hitler’s heel. We
have read with pride how Lithu-
anian peasants, braving the
threat of the death penalty,
helped and succoured Jews,
Poles and Frenchmen brought

to the concentration camps of

Lithuania.

Later, when the Red Army
liberated part of Poland and
helped the Polish people to re-
cover its independence the en=

tire world was shocked by the:

revelations of what had gone
on in Madjanek. There, as In
other death camps, the Ger-
mans exterminated millions of
people. They = exterminated
them with calculated, cold="

blooded cruelty. Details of
those ‘infamous murders speak
of one thing; that the men euil-
ty of setting up Madjajnek

camp, the men who. built the’

ovens to burn people, who de-
signed the gas chambers, who
reaped the profits from this,
are all outcasts of mankind:
They cannot change, cannot be
improved and must not be for-
given.

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Que attitude to the racial the-
ory of the Hitlerites is now
different to our former attitude
to the propaganda of racial ex-
elusiveness and chauvinism. TI
recall how in my yeuth the Rus-
Sian intellectuals of my eircle
looked upon chauvinism, and
particularly antisemitsm. We
saw in it something utterly
shameful, obtuse and vicious.
Today we know that it is also
something ‘fraught with the
gravest danger for mankind.

The Fascists began with stu-
pid antisemitic jokes*in Munich
beerhalls and ended with Mad-

janeks; with millions of dead
bodies of Jews, Frenchmen,
Poles, Norwegians, Danes and

all peoples of Europe. "That. is
why our attitude to racial hat-
red today is different from our
attitude in the days of our
youth.

In those days we merely felt
like turning our backs on the
infamous yile spectacle. Today
we shall not turn our backs on
it until we have stamped it out,

pulled it up by the roots and:

taken all measures against its
recurrence. And we shall not
forget. Among other things we

shall not forget the antisemitic-

activity. of Sosnkowski and An-
ders, we shall not forget the de-
fenders of Hitlerism; we shall
not forget anything. As long
as there still remains one cham-
‘pion of national enmity and ex-
elusiveness, even if covert:and
_actinge by stealth, fascism has
not been eradicated.

True humanism today -con-
-Sists in absolute mercilessness.
There must be no ee * for
fascists.

t@© a Weapon.

There are some peo).
day who are inclined {
get and forgive. Th:
dangerous enemies of {
‘curity, progress and
ness of mankind. fF,
ness for fascism is a
against humanity.

When ‘TI think of “fo:
and “softhearted’? defen’
fascism I recall the
about “Mandarin Execu
China. The execution
in the mandarin pulling
string whose other end
The m |
does not regard himself |
executioner, he sees
victim nor weapon, but —
nevertheless.

it is the same with —
fenders of the fascists.
their tearful pleadings
get and forgive runs
broken string to the ex
ers of Madjanek. All
ceney with regard to tk
of evil scattered by fasc
reconciliation with racis: |
semitism and the like, —
abount leniency for the
ites of Madjanek pay
way for new fascist p-
To keep silence about
to deliver our children &

In this matter dem }}
countries must not stop
thing. If any country
shelter to Hitlerites
ideas in the shape of dis
atory legislation, in the
of racist organizations 03
press, it is no longer ;
ternal affair of that cour
your neighbor discloses
backyard a container wi
son gases which threa |
spread over the entize
you will not waste time t
ing for permission to en
backyard! and avert the
of thousands of people.

Racist ideas are moré
gerous than any poisor
It is our generation’s |
Sreat duty to the futur

_the cause of progress,

zation and humanity, no!
to put out the smoking
fire of fascism but to un
and: extinguish = every Ss
ering ¢oal°of it. —