Abstract
An historian can identify the varied and concealed array of submarines and front organizations by two distinctive characteristics: they always support all the international policies pursued by the Soviet Union and change them at the very moment when the Soviet Union changes them; and they systematically blacken the West and eulogize the Eastern bloc. The wretched episode of the Nazi-Soviet Pact is the most striking example of this.
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Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt: A Friend’s Memoir ( New York: Doubleday, 1964 ), p. 788.
Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember ( New York: Harper Brothers, 1949 ), p. 205.
Ruby Black, Eleanor Roosevelt (New York: Duell, Sloane and Pearce, 1940), p. 222.
Niels Apeland, Communism and Youth: Communist Penetration of International Organizations (Vienna: IUSY, 1962), pp. 5, 6.
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Kotek, J. (1996). The Young Communists and the Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939–41. In: Students and the Cold War. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24838-4_3
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