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CONFLDENAI
Suggested Themes:
(a) Are conditions in the USSR better now - food, clothing, homes, freedom - really a
fulfillment of the promises that have been held out ever since the Revolution? Ask the parents
who sacrificed because they believed their children would be better off.*
(b) Do the working classes and peasants of the USSR live better than did the working
classes of Eastern Europe and Germany? Ask the soldiers who saw those areas during
World War II.
(c) What is the real value of a day's work in the Soviet Union in terms of what a worker
can buy with his pay compared to the worker in the free nations?
(d) If the working classes and peasants of the USSR live better than their counterparts
in Germany and Austria, why are Soviet occupation troops confined to barracks? Why are
ordinary Soviet citizens not allowed to visit those areas?
(e) If the working classes and peasants of the USSR live better than their counterparts
in the free world, why are they not permitted to visit those areas freely?
(f) How many more generations will be sacrificed on the false altar of a better life in
the future? When will the individual be permitted to work toward a better life for himself
and his family right now?
Task 5.
5. To demonstrate that the Soviet people, the Soviet army, and the natural wealth
of the USSR are being ruthlessly exploited by Stalin and the Politburo in the interest of
increasing and extending their power in the name of World Communism and against the
interest of the country and the people.
Suggested Themes:
(a) The workers and peasants of the USSR are deprived of the fruit of their labor and
their productivity is reduced in a rich land because:
i. Their leaders are unscrupulous and too thirsty for power to delegate authority;
they have enmeshed the nation in a blundering bureaucracy.
ii. The wealth of their factories goes into armaments for extension of the power
of the regime.
iii. The produce of their fields is sold to support this aggression.
iv. Millions of their young men are held in military service, not to defend Russia,
but to serve as unwilling tools of the aggressors.
*
Such social improvements as they have are less than those obtained by peoples of the West
and are bumbling, bureaucratic and unworkable in real practice.
DECLASSIFIED
-9- -
11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D)
Dept. of State letter, 923.74 or (E)
CONFIDENTIAL
NIHK
NARS
Date
1220-76
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