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Intelligence Reports on the Two Enemies: Stalin Builds a Trojan Horse Against America
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ON OCTOBER 15, 1952, Joseph Stalin told the 19th Congress of the Communist party of the Soviet Union that it was now the task of Communists abroad to “raise the banner of bourgeois democratic freedoms” and “the banner of national independence,” and to become “patriots of your country,” in order “to rally around you the majority of the people.” (It is perhaps superfluous to mention that this advice was not intended to apply to the Communist parties of Poland, Rumania, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria.) Thus Stalin put the seal of his personal approval on a line which had been developing gradually for well over a year, and which had given rise to new “popular fronts,” and attempts to form them, in many countries throughout the world.
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