Communist Attacks on the Free World During the Post War Period
Stalin’s plan for the expansion of Communism after the war involved three techniques: The creation of proCommunist puppet governments in occupied territory, the military conquest of new territory by satellite armies, the further infiltration of free countries by Soviet espionage and propaganda organizations.
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The Free World Loses 100 Million People
A primary objective of World War 2 was to liberate all of the countries occupied by the Axis powers. Russia was well aware that if she were to expand her influence into these nations, she would have to do it in such a way as to create the illusion that these nations had gone Communistic through their own political self determination. It became established Soviet Policy to take a secret but highly active interest in the affairs of these countries to make them “voluntary” satellites through infiltration and subversion.
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After a second postponement, with the Communists still refusing to participate, the National Assembly finally convened on November 15, 1946, and a democratic constitution was approved and adopted on Christmas Day. But the Communists would have no part of it.
Chiang Kai-shek became completely convinced that the Communists would never negotiate a peaceful settlement but were out to win the whole domain of China by military conquest. He also believed the Communists could never represent the interests of China because their policies were created and imposed upon them by Moscow.
Time was to prove this analysis correct, but U.S. Diplomatic Strategists were the last to be convinced and then only after the Chinese mainland had been lost. Furthermore, Chiang could not convince the US Diplomatic Corps that he was justified in striking back when the Communists attacked him. When he tried to regain the territory recently seized by the Communists, it was described in Washington as “inexcusable aggression”.