ABSTRACT
The Soviet Union is vigorously fighting the formation of any European community and its connection with the Atlantic Pact Organization, alleging that these constitute a threat to Soviet Russia. The Soviet Government itself calls fear of an attack upon the Soviet Union and concern for the preservation of peace the impelling force behind its actions. Conditions in Russia are far from being as rosy as is generally thought. In Soviet Russia war industries are favoured over consumer goods industries to an incredible degree, with the result that the population of the Soviet Union suffers enormous hardships. A very well-known personage, a Bulgarian who is closely acquainted with conditions in the satellite countries and maintains contact with people in these countries, told the author: ‘The inhabitants of the East Sector of Berlin are given the best treatment; then come the inhabitants of the German Soviet Zone, then those of the satellite states and last of all the people of Soviet Russia’.
