STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1840, sig. 109-5/68 (damaged)

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29-15 are criticized, because the military position does not always coincide with the economic one. Great successes have been achieved, although it must not be forgotten, at the expense of living standards and countless human lives. Stalin has gone here the way Peter the Great, who also built Petersburg on the legs of his subordinates. (c) Party- Without doubt, the proportion of the members of the Bolshevik party - especially in industrial cities - is relatively the strongest among the urban population, while in the vast rural areas the proportion is very low for obvious reasons. In this context, the statements of several Russian prisoners of war interviewed about the general political attitude of the SU population appear interesting. According to a rough estimate, the Communist Party in the Soviet Union should have only about 4 - 5 million members, plus about 7 - 8 million members of the Komsomolzen, so that the total strength of the politically organized amounts to about 11 - 13 million. Of this number, only 4 - 5% can be regarded as truly convinced communists. These 4 - 5 percent fully agree with all measures ordered and carried out by the Soviet government and are