The “Popular Front,” which was founded by the Communists in France, struggles “for the defence of democratic liberty, its maintenance and extension.” These are the words of Mr. Thorez, the leader of the party. The “Popular Front” has come to power in Spain. This “democratic liberty” is displayed in filling the prisons of Madrid and Barcelona, and in arresting and shooting all non-Communists. In this way 7,000 have already been murdered in Madrid alone.
The phrase “Liberty and Rights of Man” is a favourite slogan of the Communists. It figures prominently in their revolutionary hymn. The following paragraphs of a letter from the Soviet Union give an idea of how Liberty and the Rights of Man are treated there: The letter, dated August 10, 1935, states:
“Then some hundreds of the outlawed are shoved into empty and unheated freight-wagons, like animals. They were ordered to be brought to the Caspian Sea or to Siberia… One of the leading Communists said to us: ‘Die on the roadside and in the fields. We cannot kill you all; but you will have to die in the gutters!’”
A letter dated June 7, 1935, states: “It seems as if the crisis were at the beginning once again but it is to be hoped that the events of the year 1932/1933 will not be repeated when almost 80 percent of the deported died within the one year.”
On November 16, 1917, Lenin promised in the “Declaration of the Rights of the Nationalities” that the peoples of the former Czarist regime would be granted autonomy. But how did this promise work out in reality for these nationalities? On April 27, 1920, the Red Army overran Aserbeidshan, in November of the same year they overran the Ukraine, on December 3, Armenia, and on February 25, 1921, the young republic of Georgia, after Moscow had by treaty acknowledged their territorial integrity the previous year.”
In Ingria the Finnish population is being systematically stamped out. From 1929 to 1931, 18,000 Finns were banished to Siberia and, in the spring of 1935, 9,000 were forced to undergo the same fate. Only two months ago the government of the Soviet Union decided to drive out another 28,000 from their native land.
In the Polish-Soviet frontier district, 18,000 peasants of German stock “had their settlement transferred” during the spring of this year. From 80 to 90 persons were packed per cattle truck and sent to Siberia.
Last year 4,000 Carelians were sent in banishment to Central Asia and 3,000 to the Urals, where more than 50 percent of them succumbed to the inhuman conditions of life and work.
In August 1927 the Communist propaganda apparatus drummed into the ears of the world proclamations against the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. In millions of leaflets and newspapers the Communists carried on their campaign in foreign countries for the revocation of the death sentence. Yet, what happens in the Soviet Union itself? In Paragraph 58 alone of the Criminal Code, fourteen different kinds of acts are laid down which are punishable with death. By the law of April 7, 1935, the death penalty was introduced even for children.
Starving children in an educational institution have often told how good the conditions were that prevailed there in former times. This fact alone was enough to bring them within the terms of paragraph 58. Ten children were shot by the OGPU in the presence of their comrades. In a newspaper article the Soviet Prosecuting Attorney, Wischinsky, recalls “with content and pleasure” the first anniversary of the day on which the death penalty for children was established by law.
All these are facts which are vouched for exclusively by unquestionable and demonstrable documents originating mostly from Soviet sources. Last year, at the Nürnberg Party Congress, when I uttered words of warning on what I presumed would be the consequences of the Seventh Comintern Congress, held from July 25 to August 21, 1935, the world at large was silent and showed that it did not understand the import of what I had said. The safe stay-at-homes took our prophecies as exaggerated and believed that they could just throw them to the winds.
Therefore I may permit myself to repeat here some of the proposals that were made at the Comintern Congress and the plans that were decided upon and bring before you the events which meanwhile have resulted therefrom in various countries.
Dimitroff, the accredited agent of the Soviet dictatorship for bringing about the world revolution, has verbally declared: “With Stalin at the head, our political army of millions of men can and must overcome all difficulties, completely surmount all obstacles, raze the fortress of Capitalism to the ground and achieve the victory of Socialism, throughout the whole world.”
He said further: “The proletariat is the real master of the world, the master who will rule tomorrow. It must be granted its historical right and in every land throughout the world it must take the sceptre of power in its own hands.”
“It is vain to think of turning the wheel of history backwards. No! The wheel of history is turning and will turn further in the direction of the World Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, until the final conquest of the whole world by Socialism.”
Such is the programme set forth by this Bulgarian terrorist for the revolutionising of the world. As to how it is carried out, let the plain facts speak.
Since this congress, much more than a hundred Communist revolts have occurred in different countries throughout the world, among them the revolts in Brest and Toulon, in August 1935, with many dead; in Lemberg on April 18, 1936, with 10 dead, and in Saloniki on May 10, 1936, with more than 100 dead. Three armed uprisings, planned long in advance, shook whole countries for weeks on end: in November 1935, in Pernambuco, in January 1936, in Buenos Aires, and in March 1936, in Spain.
Six attempted revolutions were frustrated in advance, among them those in December 1935, in Uruguay; in February 1936, in Paraguay and in the same month in Chile. Sixty-two large fires were caused, among them that in Lanchou in China, which claimed 1,000 victims. Fifty-four armed raids were carried out and 78 stores of explosives plundered. Altogether 3,041 lives were sacrificed by these Bolshevist criminals.
To select a few examples: At the meeting of the Communist World Congress on July 30, 1935, Comrade Dsordsos appeared as the representative of Greece, and outlined a plan of action for the future. Almost exactly one year after his appearance in Moscow, on August 5, 1936, Greece was shaken by a general strike, which developed directly into an armed revolution. Only through the energetic intervention of General Metaxas was Greece saved from being reduced to a state of Bolshevist chaos, and the plan of Comrades Dimitroff and Dsordsos frustrated.
With regard to the stirring up of revolution in colonies, Dimitroff said that the peoples of the colonial and semi-colonial countries no longer regarded their liberation as a hopeless cause, but tended more and more towards a determined struggle against their imperialist oppressors.
Scarcely one year later a dangerous revolt broke out in Syria, which cost many lives. The new friendship with France by no means prevented Moscow from carrying out its premeditated plan in a territory under the mandate of its ally. A few months later the disturbances in Palestine broke out, during which the English police confiscated masses of Communist leaflets and dispersed secret meetings of Communist agents.
Marques, the representative of Brazil, declared at the Seventh World Congress in July 1935, that the country was hastening towards the decisive struggle for the fall of the government… and for the establishment of a national revolutionary government.