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Soviet Perspectives
After World War II, Joseph Stalin saw the world as divided
into two camps: imperialist and capitalist regimes on the one
hand, and the Communist and progressive world on the other. In
1947, President Harry Truman also spoke of two diametrically
opposed systems: one free, and the other bent on subjugating
other nations.
After Stalin's death, Nikita Khrushchev stated in 1956 that
imperialism and capitalism could coexist without war because the
Communist system had become stronger. The Geneva Summit of 1955
among Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States,
and the Camp David Summit of 1959 between Eisenhower and
Khrushchev raised hopes of a more cooperative spirit between East
and West. In 1963 the United States and the Soviet Union signed
some confidence-building agreements, and in 1967 President Lyndon
Johnson met with Soviet Prime Minister Aleksei Kosygin in
Glassboro, New Jersey. Interspersed with such moves toward
cooperation, however, were hostile acts that threatened broader
conflict, such as the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 and
the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia of 1968.
The long rule of Leonid Brezhnev (1964-1982) is now referred
to in Russia as the "period of stagnation." But the Soviet
stance toward the United States became less overtly hostile in
the early 1970s. Negotiations between the United States and the
Soviet Union resulted in summit meetings and the signing of
strategic arms limitation agreements. Brezhnev proclaimed in
1973 that peaceful coexistence was the normal, permanent, and
irreversible state of relations between imperialist and Communist
countries, although he warned that conflict might continue in the
Third World. In the late 1970s, growing internal repression and
the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan led to a renewal of Cold War
hostility.
Soviet views of the United States changed once again after
Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in early 1985. Arms control
negotiations were renewed, and President Reagan undertook a new
series of summit meetings with Gorbachev that led to arms
reductions and facilitated a growing sympathy even among
Communist leaders for more cooperation and the rejection of a
class-based, conflict-oriented view of the world.
With President Yeltsin's recognition of independence for the
other republics of the former USSR and his launching of a full-
scale economic reform program designed to create a market
economy, Russia was pledged at last to overcoming both the
imperial and the ideological legacies of the Soviet Union.
CENTRAL COMMITTEE. COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION [TsK KPSS]
Additional Measures To Expose Imperialist Policies
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We intend to make use of concrete facts to expose capitalist
reality, political and ideological diversions of imperialism, the
totalitarian character of a bourgeois state, and the strengthening
of reactionary thought in the bourgeois apparatus and in
capitalistic society as a whole.
The realization of such measures will permit us to coordinate
the Soviet press, radio and television in such a way that the
public's attention will be directed to the concrete manifestations
of the anti-popular nature of imperialism.
Such propaganda campaigns will help the press agency Novosti,
and politically oriented radio programs transmitted abroad to force
our idealogical enemy onto disadvantageous paths in the ideological
struggle.
A calendar of this type of events, mainly pertaining to the
USA is attached. Similar plans pertaining to other imperialistic
states could be developed in the course of work.
We request your review.
Assistant Chief of the Propaganda (A. Iakovlev)
Department, TsK KPSS
January 21, 1971
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TRANSLATOR'S COMMENTS: In the upper left corner are the words
"Without right of publication." In the upper right corner is the
stamp of the TsK KPSS. The hand-written note could not be
deciphered. The second page of the document is blank except for the
handwritten notes: Comrade Ponomarev is absent. Comrades Smirnov
and Parinov have been informed. January 29, 1971.
Attachment 170 Calendar of Certain Events
January 1, 1863 - In the USA the Act to free black slaves went into
effect. Provides a rationale to point out the severity of the
ethnic problem in the United States of America.
January 5, 1957 - President Eisenhower in a message to Congress set
forth an expansionist U.S. policy for the Near East and Middle East
that became known as the "Eisenhower-Dulles Doctrine."
January 5, 1970 - In the USA progressive trade union activist
Yablonsky was killed.
January 17, 1966 - In Spain, in the Palomares region, an American
bomber plane with 4 nuclear bombs on board crashed.
- 140 years ago in the USA, the so-called Lynch
law went into effect.
February 2, 1848 - End of the Mexican-American war, which resulted
in the USA seizing from Mexico Texas, New Mexico, and upper
California and part of Arizona
February, 1951 - In the USA seven falsely accused blacks executed
February 7, 1965 - Beginning of systematic bombing of the
Democratic Republic of Vietnam by the USA
February 9, 1950 - Beginning of the "McCarthy Era"
March 1, 1961 - Decade of the "Peace Corps USA," an organization
engaging in subversive activity in Africa and Asia
March 5, 1946 - Churchill's speech at Fulton - the beginning of the
"cold war" against socialist countries
March 12, 1947 - Acceptance in the USA of Truman's agressive
foreign policy doctrine
March 16, 1965 - Bloody reprisals against participants in the black
freedom march in Selma
March 23, 1947 - Truman's order to verify the loyalty of all
government employees
April 1914 - Shooting of participants in Colorado strike
...
April 4, 1969 - The leader of the movement for the civil rights of
American Negroes, Martin Luther King, is assassinated in the USA.
April 14, 1865 - President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated.
April 15-19 1961 - Decade of attempted armed invasion of Cuba by
the USA
April 1861 - Beginning of the Civil War in the USA
April 25, 1898 - Beginning of the Spanish-American War. The first
war of imperialism for the redivision of the world, resulting in
USA seizure of the Phillipines, Guam, Puerto Rico, and Cuba.
April 27, 1965 - USA intervention in the Dominican Republic
April 30, 1970 - Invasion of American forces into Cambodia
...
May 4, 1970 - Anniversary of the shooting deaths of students at
Kent State University in the USA
May 11, 1894 - Beginning of the Pullman strike
May 24, 1918 - Beginning of USA intervention in the Soviet North
May 26, 1938 - Creation in the USA of the Anti-American Activity
Committee
June 5, 1947 - USA adopts expansionist "Marshall Plan"
June 5, 1968 - Robert Kennedy assassinated
June 23, 1947 - USA adopts anti-labor Taft-Hartley law
June, 1950 - Beginning of USA intervention in Korea
June 25, 1968 - Destruction of the American poor people's
"Resurrection City" in Washington
June 28, 1932 - "Bloody Thursday" - shooting of war veterans -
participants in a march on Washington
June, 1963 - Murder of Medgar Evers, famous black activist in USA
July 16, 1877 - Beginning of a railroad strike - the first national
strike in the USA to spread to all main railroads in the country
July 20, 1948 - Trial of 11 USA Communist Party leaders begins
...
August 4, 1964 - Provocations by USA armed forces against
Democratic Republic of Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin
August 4, 1953 - USA intervention in Guatemala
August 6, 1945 - Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
August 1918 - USA intervention in the Soviet Far East
August 23, 1927 - Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
August 24, 1954 - USA adopts law "to monitor communist activity"
August 27, 1968 - Political reprisals against participants in mass
antiwar demonstration in Chicago
September 23, 1950 - USA adopts the McCarran-Wood "law on internal
security"
September-October 1919 - National strike in the USA in which 2
million people take part
October 31, 1956 - Triple agression of England, France and Israel
against Egypt
November 19, 1915 - Poet Joe Hill shot in the USA
November 22, 1963 - Assassination of John Kennedy
November 22, 1970 - Portuguese colonizers commit act of armed
aggression against the Republic of Guinea
December, 1931 - Two "hunger marches" on Washington by USA poor