The Archive · 1921

THE SOVIET'S PLOT UNMASKED

Trade and Recognition: A Means Only for Renewing War on All the World At the recent meeting of the Com. munist Conference in Moscow, Trot the arch-Bolshevist, made a most portant statement of the Soviet policy as regards trade agreements with foreign Governments and the creation' of buffer states which, he says, are intended only as a means of enabling Russia to 16. cuperate in order that she may then renew the on capitalism through. out the world. This statement was at once telegraphed to all communist crganizations but it was not published for ordinary people. One of our correspondents has managed to get hold of a copy and a translation follows ended with full success. The internal counter-revolution is crushed. Soviet Russia is ruling almost the whole territory of the former Russian Empire. Nevertheless the situation is exceedingly grave. It is of absolute necessity to overcome the general disorganization, to compel other nations to recognize our representatives abroad and enter into commercial intercourse with us. It is our main task, a more difficult one than all victories already gained by us. The revolution proved that revolutionary troops have been victorious always. The period of peaceful regeneration will be the most dangerous for the revolutionary conquests as we shall be threatened by a reactionary evolution.

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