ABSTRACT
The hostility and contempt in which Soviet citizens had been taught to hold their Western allies were much older than Tehran or Yalta. They became quickly obvious to Westerners whose duties put them in contact with the Red Army, and perhaps nowhere so quickly or as clearly as in the defeated satellite countries Rumania and Bulgaria. The only friends worth having in the Western countries are those who are prepared devotedly to serve the U.S.S.R.—that is, the communists, their sympathisers, and the small army of secret paid agents of the Soviet state. The social democrat parties of Western Europe are not socialist parties at all, but instruments of the capitalists to deceive the workers, their leader’s conscious instruments and their masses unconscious instruments. The old disruptive petty nationalism of neighbour nation against neighbour nation was a curse in the old Eastern Europe: its disappearance could do only good.
