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    "ocrText": "bourgeoisie, by a proletarian revolution, by estab-\nlishing its own political rule-the dictatorship of\nthe proletariat-which must crush the resistance..\n\"\n\"In combining legal with illegal, parliamentary with\nextra-parlianentary forms of struggle, it is sone-\ntimes useful and even essential to reject parlianen-\ntary forms.. \" \"The new period is one of open class\ncollisions, of revolutionary action by the proletar-\niat, of proletarian revolution, a period when forces\nare being directly mustered for the overthrow of in-\nperialism and the seizure of power by the proletar-\niat...\" \"The study of the history of the C.P.S.U.(B)\nstrengthens our certainty of the ultinate victory of\nthe great cause of the Party of Lenin-Stalin, the\nvictory of Communism throughout the world.\n6. The thene of For A Lasting Peace, For a People's De-\nmocracy, the publication of the Communist Information Bureau\nof Belgrade (Cominforn) created Septenber 19, 1947, may be\nfound summed up in these words:\n\"Fundanental changes have taken place in the inter-\nnational situation as a result of the Second World\nWar and in the post-war period. Inasnuch as the\nUSSR and the countries of the new denocracy becane\nobstacles to the realization of the imperialist\nplans-two camps were forned--the inperialist and\nanti-denocratic camp having as its basic ain the\nestablishnent of world donination of Anerican in-\nperialisn and the smashing of derocracy, and the\nanti-imperialist and denocratic camp having as its\nbasic ain the undernining of inperialism. \" \"The\nstruggle between the two dianetrically opposed\ncanps--the inperialist and the anti-inperialist\ncamp-is taking place in a situation narked by fur-\nther aggravation of the general crisis of capital-\nism, the weakening of the forces of capitalism...\nIf\n\"Hence the imperialist camp and its leading force,\nthe United States, are displaying particularly ag-\ngressive activity \"Yesterday's aggressors--\nthe capitalist magnates of Germany and Japan-are\nbeing groomed by the United States of America for\na new role, that of instrunents of the inperialist\npolicy of the United States in Europe and Asia.\n#\n\"Under these circunstances it is necessary that the\nanti-inperialist, denocratic camp should close its\nNSC 17\n- 18 -"
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