English Translation

32 the Marxists ended on, broke a rovolte in Kronstadt, which had almost succeeded in eliminating the Marxist leadership?, This fact sheds light, as it were, with one blow, on the very peculiar structure of the Russian conditions: a government form that remained victorious in a long camp is being destroyed by the victory of the people who had taken it for her by a hair. It is hard to imagine that events of a similar nature could otherwise be repeated in Europn, unless perhaps in the Balkans. I would like to try, as I have been advised, to leave aside all sphilosophical speculation, but I must ask to allow myself, with a few remarks, the characteristic foundations of the valkers of the Soviet Union, mainly of the Russian people, for the facts which Stalin used to fanatize the population. Only a certain insight into the character of the people makes it possible to understand the connections. What Stalin has actually done in recent years is then divided into three questions: 1. Which means of influence are available to him! 2. How does he use the psychic self-dynamics of the Russian people? 3. How does he use the course of the war to tension all forces? Who has witnessed the outbreak of the First World War in Russia 30 years ago. knows the understatement of his own view between father-landish enthusiasm and highly-feeled fanaticism. At that time the Russian fanaticism against Germany was a temporary phenomenon. which, especially in circles of the Russian educational class, flashed up abruptly. with shrugging glow. stood above the Russian sour people, without actually ignite, and like a doom fanal overlit the last phases of self-destructive these circles who in turn has been and had the opportunity to jet in Russia. with the population in exchange of ideas, because that fanaticism, with which we are dealing today, incomparably further circles revolt of the egranic peasant maase under the leadership of Sosial Revolutio närons (Matrosen of the Red Fleet, Hauptaachlieb buuerlirher Herkundti, cf. sShort course of the history of the Communist Party 1938