re were > N November 7 the people of the Soviet Union will, celebrate the thirty-second anniy» versary of the founding of the first. great pioneering socialist state. In the New Democracies of Europe and the new Chinese, People’s Republic, millions of people now themselves on the high road to socialism will share in these celebrations. Even in the ‘countries of the West, where in- security, want and fear are the forces dominating the democratic ' “way, of life” millions of people will draw from these celebrations new - inspiration and strength. Ten years ago, on the evening of November 7, my wife and I started out on the journey back to Canada. We had been two year's resident in Russia and, despite the joy of returning to our loved ones and our homeland, the regret of leaving the Soviet Union, its ‘warm-hearted people and its “way of life’ weighed heavily upon us. That November day ten years, ago both of us were signally hon- ored, I ag the guest of the Mos- cow Soviet in the reviewing pa- ' vilion of the Red Square, watch- ing the colorful pageantry and might of socialism march past; my wife to march in the mighty trade union brigades of the’ Mos- . cow Region, roaring their pledge to Stalin from tens of thousands of throats—to fulfil the Third Five Year Plan of socialist construc- tion away ahead of schedule — to make the History of the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) (then just published) | their guide to the building of their country—and their determination to defend: their beloved Soviet Union against the machinations of all its enemies. How well those pledges have been kept. How soon we in the Western world have been taught LG forme uns suas tea Then came evening and the | hour of departure. The farewells weren't easy. Some were for the last time—because so many died fulfilling their pledge, - defending a thousand cities from the. Soviet frontier to Stalingrad and from Murmansk to the Black Sea. ve Our way to the Kiev station, up | Gorky Street, cut through one side of Pushkin Square. This historic square in the heart of Moscow — covers about six of our largest city blocks. : : At one end, entering the fam-_ ous square, stands a majestic mon- age: to the great aes aa poet , in which. men tank put to the ultimate test as few others ever were, the man produced by So- Gislism proved to be far superior. This, then, was_ and is. ae significance of Stalingrad. It was proof to the “whole --world that socialism was a SU-- perior way of: life; that social- ism had produced a new and~ truly won the hearts and minds of the Russian people. = | 4 And what else? + ish people (and ~ the German people, too) phony bill of goods about Rus- sia and socialism; that somebody had lied about the strength OL the Red Army and the ability of its leaders; that the whole vast fabric of propaganda and ‘slanders about the Soviet {Union ' false—utterly, -and wholly , false. _ And more, too. It meant that ‘the Suet Un- tak could not have been the ‘Seven years better man; that socialism had - Simply this. It meant ‘that the =) American and Canadian and Bri- — had. been sold: as. ‘in, 1942-438 and despicably ob eset ems I \ I too, saw | the future | Py Pushkin, whose dreams of ‘free- ‘dom for his people have become a living reality under socialism. That night Pushkin Square was lit with powerful Red Army searchlights, and a massed Red Army band alternated between the symphonic works of great ‘Russian composers and the latest foxtrot from Broadway. Two hun- dred and fifty thousand people, young and old, danced. and sang — _in the great square. Even the mil- ; itiamen (policenien) gave up the idea of trying to keep an alleyax: way cleared fot traffic, and join-. ed in the dance -with the nearest Soviet lass. oe I looked up at the cold stone of Pushkin’s face. The suffering etched in its lines seemed to have - softened. And well it might . -for there on the vast square nos low was the substance of the soul of Pushkin — a socialist people given over to the happiness and consciousness of their achieve- ments. _ : * Moscow has many historic ‘squares besides the Red’ Square, and each on that historic anniver- sary—and throughout the far- flung Soviet Union—became the rendezvous of a socially-conscious Soviet people, given over to the happiness of knowing at they. were the pioneers and builders of a New World, dedicated to the proposition that the “exploitation _ of man by man is forever ahaa: oe That was ten years ago. . Be- tween then—and this- thirty-sec- ond anniversary of the Russian — Revolution, the supremacy of s0- © cialist economy and Socialist con- tribution to victory over Hitlerite - fascism (epitomizing the last stages of capitalist imperialism) : has. been well demonstrated. © despotic dictatorship it had been. pictured as being by our huck- sters—because slaves could not | at fight like the ‘men of Stalingrad fought. Only truly bees men could’ have Hought like that against such seemingly overwhelming and hopeless odds. In essence, the Battle of Stal- ingrad marked the epic triumph ‘of the free. men of a free new social ‘order. which had ‘united . behind it in solid, unbreakable halanxes the 200 million. human ders. that’s means in 1949. |The people of Germany. fell for Hitler’s sucker bait about Russia and they have paid heav- ily for it with a destroyed na- tion and a dark future. “The people of Canada and thik U.S. would do well to thrust | aside the same bait and keep the meaning of Stalingrad in mind, because men of evil intent beings who lived within its bor eu eae logic of history insists that the ‘'That’s what Stalingrad vipat what it? ‘Mct WEN ‘Names like oes Subanon Kiev, Kharkov, Sevastopol, Stal- ingrad, have become synonomous . with a degree of sacrifice, suffer — ing and heroism, unparalleled in ‘human: history. Out of that social-. i&t heroism came the long march from ‘Stalingrad to Berlin, and - “-the liberation of Europe by: the Red Army . . even while the “al-— lies” in Washington and London were , connie against 1676 : Nor ‘is’ ‘that. all. From the ruins “Of . ax thousand Soviet cities and ‘towns, the Soviet people. rise to . new heights of socialist -achieve- | ment. Cities and homes are being \ after Stalingrad have already pushed us danger- ‘ously far along: the road to war ith the Soviet Union. “And with sickening repetition they haye revived and revised all . , the old lies and slanders about the Soviet Union—just as if Stalingrad had never been; all the wornout tales of “Siberian slave, camps,” of the “despotic Asiatic dictatorship,” of the “ruthless, sap ioa men in the Kremlin. wees “Are we pone Ss “fall for this -sucker’s bait? | : ae I don’t think so, eye the two greatest nations on the earth live together peacefully and with mutual and lasting benefits. And the logic of history, which is the passionate universal desire of the people for peace, is strong- er than all the false, illogical arguments that we, in the West- ern countries, must fight ‘the Soviet Union to defend a democ- racy that is steadily being whit- tled away—by our own govern- ments. oe & built with a speed that is itself revolutionary, and without bene- fit of “Western aid.’ Soviet sci- ence and higher education—the property of the common people— marches forward in seven league boots, striving for new peace ob- jectives: the mental and physical health and well-being of the So- viet people. , The center of world reaction has ‘shifted—from the Junkers’ clubs of the Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin to the atomaniacs in Wash- ’ ington, Ottawa and London, and their lesser satellites elsewhere. Failing to learn the lesson of World War II, the warmongers would again venture “into the So- viet cabbage patch,” this time armeds with the false hopes of a ‘new monopoly in destruction, the atom bomb. And once again so- cialist science has outmarched them— by the development and use of atomic energy for socialist construction, for Soviet health and welfare—and if necessary, for Soviet defense against atomic madmen. 4 How loudly the Yanke war- | mongers and their anti-Soviet “al- lies” yelp for war and. prate about “democracy” and “our way of life’—and how little they know, or have learned, of the bottomless wells of socialist strength. Paul G. Hoffman, European Administrator (ECA) -for Yankee dollar rule told the 20th annual * meeting of the Canadian Chamber — - of Commerce that “Russian ‘sO-- _ cialism would soon fall from ~ within—at Stalin’s death.” Wash- ington’s top slave-trader hasn’t_ said anything original. capitalism’s “monopoly press and you will find earlier Hoffmans - : ; _ Thirty-two years of Socialist — _-achievements despite the oan the same “prediction.” - How often: + they: “expressed the ube that the Soviet Union would “collapse when Lenin died.” With the aid of their dupes and agents they even resorted to attempted assassination of Lenin to hasten the realization of their maniacle dreams. - Perhaps Hoffman’s “hope” is “also a green-light to the gangster- ized minions of “Project X” to speedup the “downfall” of social- ism by the assassination of be- loved Soviet jeaders—just as they planned, in the Hungarian Rajk conspiracy, the assassination of Rakosi, Farkas, Gero and others, as a means of destroying the Hun-| garian People’s Republic. _ Lenin left an invincible party te provide leadership and cousel in the building of socialism, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks). With a life- time of wise counsel and demo- cratic leadership, Joseph Stalin has enriched this great party and made of it the party of the Soviet -people—not,a group, or a clique, or a class, but of the great multi- national Russian people. phat is something the dollar diplomats and conspirators, in their petty spying, scheming, and © Go. back through the files ‘of slanders against the Soviet Union are incapable of understanding or heeding. During my two years’ residence in the Soviet Union I had the opportunity to travel widely, of seeing socialism at work. I met and lived with the common people in their hamlets, towns and cities from Soviet Karelia to the Cri-. -mea. I visited factories and farms, collectives and cooperatives. I was no “Cook’s tourist” on a i ~ supervised junket, but a foreign- — er whose heart and hopes were with the Soviet people in their struggle to carve out a new world, based on the dignity of labor and the brotherhood of man. I met with the members of local Soviets who grappled with such problems as housing, sani- — tation, primary education and cul-. ture, who, before the revolution had been serfs and landless peas- antry, knowing only the knout of the cossack and the expropriation — of the Tsarist tax collector. I met with factory workers whose minds grappled with prob- lems of greater production and (efficient plant operation, tather than thinking only about quitting time—or whether they would have a job next month. : I met peasant men and women |. in the villages, who, until the com- | ing of Soviet power, had been un- able to read or write, and had now become top scientists in bio- logy and other fields. I met literally thousands of young boys and girls in the universities and colleges of the Soviet Union—a generation who had never known the “bless- ings” of capitalism, many of — whom” were already making a And mark for themselves in the arts — and sciences of their beloved so- cialist land, who had no desire to trade their socialist opportunities and security for the empty clap-: trap of Chamber of Commerce : jdemosragy: - Yes, I saw ‘difficulties too. Im- _ perfections . . . and often what appeared to me to be haddee s stupidities. But I only saw them when the common people of fac- tory and farm pointed them out to me, and turned the fire of their se & criticism’ on the local, regional or Ze higher Soviets. But. the history — of the last 10 years has proved, eee just as the histo; ory of the past 32 _ _ years prove, that the Soviet people _ are not prepared to sell their so- cialist birthright for all the Yan- . kee dollars Wall Street can scrape together. ap : > inter- vention of imperialist aggression, despite foreign-inspired sabotage, espionage and wrecking, despite _the new slanders and calumnies of Yankee imperialism and its dollar - inspired satellites, social _ democrats and assassins., Thirty-two years of Socialist achievements, including the her- culean task of meeting—and de- featng three-fifths of the full power.of the German Wehrmacht, thus saving us in Canada and } elsewhere from having to goose- _ step to the music of the Nazi pimp Horst Wessel song. Like Lincoln Steffens, I too can say, “I have seen the future © ... and it works.” It works—be- cause it is embedded in the stout hearts of the great socialist pion- eers of the Soviet Union and is — implicit in the teachings and lead-— ership of the great party of Lenin and Stalin, the Communist Party of Bolsheviks. It works, because, — while the war jackals of Western © 4 ‘ imperialism howl -for war, millions in Eastern Europe and _ the New China—in every land — sees in its banner the only hope new * and suré guarantee of lasting peace and join in its march to- wards singing tomorrows. volcan tat TRIBUNE _ AOYRMBER 4, 1949 — PAGE s ee aR sce ONIN