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    "ocrText": "of the mass people's front in America that should\nbe set up in opposition to the parties of the trusts\nand the banks and likewise to growing fascisn. Such\na party, of course, will be neither Socialist nor\nCommunist. But it must be an anti-fascist party and\nmust not be an anti-Communist party. The program &\nthis party nust be directed against the banks, trusts\nand monopolies\nIt goes without saying that such a\nparty will fight for the election of its own candi-\ndates\nOur conrades in the United States acted\nrightly in taking the initiative for the creation of\nsuch a party We should develop the most wide-\nspread movenent for the creation of such a party,\nand take the lead in it. In no case must the initia-\ntive of organizing the party be allowed to pass\nto\nelements desirous of utilizing the discontent of the\nnasses which have becone disillusioned in both the\nbourgeois parties, Denocratic and Republican, in\norder to croate a 'third party' in the United\nStates as an anti-Communist party, a party directed\nagainst the revolutionary novement. \"\nGeorgi Dinitrov, in his closing connonts to the 7th\nWorld Congress, declared:\n\"The victory of socialisn in the Sovict Union--a\nvictory of world-historic significanco-gives rise\nin all capitalist countries to a poworful novement\ntoward socialism... If \"It strengthens the Sovict\nUnion as the base of the world proletarian revolu-\ntion. \" \"Wo are the disciples of Marx and Engols,\nLenin\nand Stalin. With Stalin at their hoad the\nTRUMAN\nmillions of our political arny overconing all dif-\nthe\nNATIONAL\nficulties and courageously breaking through all\nfor\nbarriors must and will level to the ground the\nRECORDS\nSERVICE\"\nfortross of capitalisn and achieve the victory\nEssay\nand\nof socialism throughout the whole world.\"\n5. The thene of the History of the CPSU (Connunist Party\nof the Sovict Union) may be found summed up in these words:\n\"Marx and Engels taught that it was inpossible to\nget rid of the power of capital and to convert cap-\nitalist property into public property by peaceful\nmeans, and that the working class could achieve\nthis only by revolutionary violence against the\nNSC 17\n- 17 -"
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