English Translation

Z The state-legally autonomous protectorate is now the new political form of life of the Czech people. It undoubtedly means giving up some expensive possessions and expensive presidencies. However, the forces behind the military powers of the opposite side should call for a timely examination, which takes a sober account of the use, risk and possibilities of the European peoples in this struggle. But does it not also offer its advantages; a basis for a small people who, in real terms, settle their limited opportunities in this clash of giants soberly and account for the realities behind the propaganda phrases? A basis that has already proved its worth in war, will only open its full possibilities in peace? Let us take a look at East and West for such a consideration. What Bolshevism hopes for in its political strategy of the first great "capitalist war" is taught by every look at his Gundlage literature, especially Lenin's work. There can of course be no mention of the fact that these basic concepts are now abandoned, revised or otherwise perforated. Only the political average brain of a Western European petty-citizen — by the way, the subject-matter of constant despised hone on the part of the Bolsheviks — considers such a basic line to be abandoned by external revision gestures, such as the sham liquidation of the Comintern. The Bolshevik-wistic doctrine of Leninist Marxism is a world interpretation, deviating events are, in contrast, Lappalia; the past course of the quarter-century since Bolshevism's entry into power offers from their point of view only insignificant deviations from the Marxist-Leninist analysis of world-historical development. At the heart of Leninism is the thesis that the next capitalist war brings up that general catastrophe which makes the masses of the world mature for communism and forces the victory of the World Revolution. After the great clash has occurred and the goal seems so close, the Bolsheviks, of course, have every means to achieve it. Hence the seemingly unconscionable cuts in doctrines, in church politics, in the field of the International and much more easily in other places. But behind that remains the old fanatical will after restless submission first to Europe, then to the world. The fact that the main forces of European culture are not the object of respect, but rather the necessary aim of destruction, for this purpose the history of the communist terror from Munich and Budapest to the total Bolshevik rule in the Baltics should be an example enough. There is no question that Central Europe is listening to the areas which Moscow takes for granted and which the Western powers do not dispute at all. The graves of Katyn show what the Czech bourgeoisie expects. But that the Czech working class would also make the most intimate acquaintance with the famous com- mon life in the red factories of Siberia, has recently admitted a voice as competent as the English magazine ,19th Century. These are the chances of the East.