18th Congress Reports and Speeches 1939

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The Land of Socialism Today and Tomorrow: Reports and Speeches at the Eighteenth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks). March 10-21, 1939

"the imperialist claims of the fascist vultures are encountering the resistance of certain capitalist states and of a large section

of the ruling classes of those countries whose governments are capitulating to the fascist aggressors. The United States, the biggest capitalist power in the world, anxious to defend its interests in the Latin American countries from Germany, Italy and Japan—which are straining towards and rapidly penetrating these countries—and its positions in the Philippines, China and the Pacific from Japan, is working for a bloc with the South American states to resist fascist expansion. The United States is thereby stimulating resistance to the aggressive plans of the fascists in other parts of the world, including Europe.

In Great Britain, fear for the integrity of the Empire, which is being menaced by German fascism, is impelling even a section of the imperialists, men like Duff Cooper, Eden and Churchill, into the camp of opposition to the present Conservative government. The rapacious claims of the German and Italian fascists are scaring a section of the French bourgeoisie and strengthening the position of those who are in favour of resisting them. Alarm is growing in Poland over the threat of her dismemberment by Germany. Opposition is increasing in Hungary to her enslavement by German fascism." D. MANUILSKY

. Revolution,” said Comrade Stalin, “does not usually develop along a straight-ascending line, as a continuous rise, but in zigzags, in advances and retreats, in an ebb and flow, hardening the forces of the revolution in the course of development and preparing the way for its final victory.” (J. Stalin, “Results of the Work of the Fourteenth Conference of the Russian Communist Party.”)