ABSTRACT
The myth of a Soviet or communist "threat" that is being circulated, is meant to justify the arms race and the imperialist countries' own aggressiveness. The imperative condition for success in resolving the topical issues of international life is to reduce the time of search for political accords and to secure the swiftest possible transition to constructive actions. The US ruling circles are clearly losing their realistic bearings in this far from simple period of history. The course of history, of social progress, requires ever more insistently that there should be constructive and creative interaction between states and peoples on the scale of the entire world. Socialism unreservedly rejects war as a means of settling interstate political and economic differences and ideological disputes. The situation created by nuclear confrontation calls for new approaches, methods, and forms of relations between the different social systems, states and regions.
