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scale aggressive violence. The ideals of Communism have a certain
universality of appeal and they therefore can serve, in any nation
in the world, as a nucleus around which the forces of revolution can
group themselves. They are furnished with a strong rallying cry.
If the force of this rallying cry is amplified by active support from
a powerful nation such as Soviet Russia, the groundwork is laid for
serious conflict between Soviet Russia and other nations.
In this connection, however, doubts can legitimately be
raised as to whether the mass of the Russian people are by nature of
such temperament that they can be whipped up sufficiently to partici-
pate in an aggressive world war for any such abstract ideal as an
international Communist society. The Mussian people apparently are
not temperamentally warlike. In the past they have been strong prima-
rily in the face of invasion, not as aggressive conquerors. (It is
notable incidentally, that Russia did not participate in World War II
until she was attacked, although this is probably explainable as basic
Communist policy, rather than as lack of spirit.)
It would seem probable that Russians are much more likely to
become dissatisfied with their own government because of their low
material standard of living under it, than they are to become imbued
with a crusading spirit to fight for the welfare of the working class
throughout the world. It is not impossible, of course, that the
propagandist efforts of their zealous Communist leaders might con-
vince them that only by an aggressive effort in behalf of worldwide
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