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    "ocrText": "Restricted\nChart. 2\nGROWTH OF COMMUNIST PARTIES\nToday, the largest membership in the history of the world Com-\nmunist movement is at the disposal of Moscow for the achievement of its\nobjectives. This membership numbers about 15 1/2 million distributed\namong 71 parties (the Communist claim is 18 million). Of these, 12\nmillion, or over 3/4 of the total, are in the Communist-controlled areas\nfrom eastern Germany to North Korea. In addition, there are almost\nthree million in the western countries, and almost 3/4 million in the\ncolonial and underdeveloped lands of Asia, Africa and Latin America.\nDuring the 1920's the international Communist movement was little\nmore than a pawn in the factional struggle for power within the USSR.\nEfforts to bring about or lead national revolutions in several countries,\nincluding Germany and China, failed. Even in 1934 after the great\ndepression had shaken world capitalism, the world Communist move-\nment outside the Soviet Union claimed a total membership of only\n860,000 members. At this point the Popular Front tactic was used to\nsecure all possible allies for the defense of the Soviet Union and \"other\ndemocracies\" against the menace of Fascism and Japanese imperialism,\nenabling the Communist movement to increase its membership to\n1,200,000 by 1939.\nIt was during World War II and after that the great opportunity for\ngrowth came to the World Communist movement. During this period the\nCommunist leaders made the best of many factors, including the prom-\ninent role of Communists in underground movements; well-organized\nutilization of the vacuum left by the defeat of Fascism; loss of faith in\ntraditional moderate political parties; and above all the Soviet military\noccupation of the eastern European nations. By 1946, the membership\nhad passed the 12 1/2 million mark, with at least five parties (China,\nFrance, Italy, Czechoslovakia, and eastern Germany) claiming over a\nmillion each.\nRestricted"
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