|
If the annals of political duplicity were ever published, the size of
that publication would certainly surpass the body of the last, thirty-volume edition of
the Encyclopedia Britannica. And, if the participants - states and politicians,
who represented them - competed against each other for the Laurels of Excellence in
Duplicity and Brazenness, the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and its
politicians would be, without doubt, the undisputeably victorious team.
With borders virtually impenetrable, the Soviet Union remained to the
rest of the world a detached, distant terra incognita - for most of its pre-WW2
existence. Although there were many signals indicating that the communist country is
just one colossal penal colony housing close to two hundred million inmates, finely
tuned Soviet propaganda machine flooded the free world with quite a different, rosy
picture of the Soviet reality.
Soviet politicians and propagandists were assisted in their efforts by devoted packs of
Western 'progressive' intellectuals (God's fools?), like Bertrand Russell and Gorge B.
Shaw; communist parties and leftist organizations, and equally 'progressive' publishers,
like Lawrence & Wishart Ltd. At one point even the ruler of the British Empire, king
George VI turned 'progressive', when His Royal Majesty ordered his Printing Office to
publish Molotov's cries about Nazi-committed atrocities (in the list of those
atrocities, Molotov included atrocities, committed by the Soviets on civilian population
on the Soviet-occupied territories, when the German Soviet conflict erupted on June 22,
1941, but His Majesty's decision was to turn a blind eye on that). The golden-mouthed
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Commissar for Foreign Affairs and most recognized in
the West - obviously, after Comrade Stalin - Soviet personage, was leading the Soviet
propaganda pack.
project in progress...
|
