THE TROJAN HORSE OF THE IMPERIALISTS

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THE TROJAN HORSE OF THE IMPERIALISTS.
/Following is atrdnslation of an article by V. Broz
and M. Rys in the Czech-language periodical Nova 61
(New Thought), ,No.., Prague, April 1965, pp 79"3-500-1
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The contemporary world is witnessing an uncompromising struggle
etween the revolutionary forces and imperialism. It is being carried
out in economics, in'politics and in the ideological sphere. Its aim
is to open a may to humanity toward permanent peace, national independ-
ence, democracy, socialism and communism. One of the principal sectors
of this struggle is ideology.' The imperialists are concentrating an
extraordinary amount of attention on it at this time. For them, ideo-
logical diversion has become one of the most important weapons against
the socialist countries. Anticommunist ideologists feverishly seek new
ys and forms of battle, are increasing their efforts to utilize con-
science as a means of infiltrating an enemy ideology into the minds
f our people.
Of course, we do not consider every clash of ideas an ideological
diversions although we know that the aim is the same: to restore capital-'
ism in our country. However, the imperialists have built numerically
and materially strong central points from which they direct their psycho-.
ogical war, expend considerable means on the illegal distribution of
subversive printed matter and other material-in communist countries,
undervalue the results of our people's work, try to weaken our socialist
onscience, exhort them to break our laws, etc.
Anticommunism has become the ideal platform of ideological diversion.
ccording to imperialist planning, it should lead to a schism in the world
communist movement,. in socialist community life, to a dissolution of in-
dividual communist parties, to dissent among the workers, etc. Enemies
of socialism are trying to incite all against all, invent and magnify
conflicts and try to intrude into the smallest fissures.
The magnitude of the struggle on the ideological front in the
last period of time has exceeded the capabilities of individual institu-
tions and thus is being increasingly transferred to the patronage and
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direct management by individual governments of capitalist countries. One
of the most important agents in this struggle in the United States is the
United States Information Service (USIA) which carries out its subversive
activities in close cooperation with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),
the Council for Psychological and Political War and the State Department.
This agency has 239 branches in 105 countries and about 11,000 employees.
The world bourgoisie has called a number of international meetings
to coordinate its anticommunist propaganda. The chief coordinator of the
propaganda directed against the countries of the socialist camp is, first,
the North Atlantic Pact (NATO). Its council has even organized a special
group that has worked out a proposal for pursuing the psychological war
best.
Principal Directions' of Ideological Diversion.
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Many American statesmen have outlined the primary direction to be
-taken in an attack, on communism on the ideological front. J.F. Kennedy,
Averell Harriman, Dean',Rusk, Adlai Stevenson and, lately, Lyndon Johnson
also have called for an "individual approach" to individual socialist
countries, to gradually pull them back into capitalism. Among them also
is the chairman of the'State Foreign Affairs Committee, William Fulbright,
who, in the spring of 1964, demanded an end to the "old myths" of American
foreign policy.
Imperialist propaganda is not seeking an "individual approach" only
to individual socialist countries. Increasingly, it also tries to approach,
in a diversified manner, various groups and strata of the population. We
feel its intensified activity aimed at cultural workers, artists and other
members of the intelligentsia. It tries to influence youth, labor, farmers,
to inject itself among believers of various religions. it propagates and
supports nationalism, revisionism, liberalistic tendencies, attacks the
communist party, implements measures, and stimulates reactivation of all
sorts of relics.
The prim cutting edge of ideological diversion is directed against
the unity of the socialist camp and the task-of the Soviet Union as the
leading force of the world revolutionary movement. Proof of this is Sen.
W. Fulbright's attitude in Dallas in December of 1964. In his speech, the
Senator emphasized that in "bridging the East and West" we must approach',:,
individual countries in the socialist camp in the spirit of "a policy of
differentiated friendship and enmity". The degree-of friendship or en-
mity toward such countries becomes apparent in the attitude of the U.S.
and its allies on the political and cultural level, and lately mostly on
the economic level. An important yardstick for this differentiated approach
(in their terminology) is the degree of the so-called liberal attitude of
the internal organization of a socialist country. It means that, the
faster the "change" in the internal government of an individual socialist
country, or of other "concessions", the greater the hope to obtain favorable
trade agreements and financial credits from the capitalist countries.
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Of no little concern to bourgeois ideologists are problems connected
with proletarian internationalism. They try to disturb the practical use
and introduction of the principles of proletarian internationalism. They
again and again air their slander about unequal trading among socialist
countries. Their propaganda agitates against the international socialist
division of labor carried out within the scope of the Council for Mutual
Economic Aid, and try to incite resistance to it.
The anticommunist ideologists are devoting much attention to the
CSSR. They no longer can advocate a return to capitalism as openly by
their propaganda as they did after February 1918. They, know that, after
17 years, peopleb' ideas have changed. Capitalism in this country is de-
finitely a thing of the past. They therefore try to create the impression
that their chief aim is not a renewal of capitalism but an "expansion of
democracy". They try to incite and encourage nationalistic tendencies and
misuse them to create barriers among nationalities, to disturb the common
socialist life of our nations. A rather considerable task nn their tactics
is to underestimate the party's struggle against the remnants of the per-
sonality cult.They tried to imprint this process with a stamp of gradual
liquidation of the c9mmunist ideology and the need to merge with the bour-
gois ideology. Their propaganda magnifies internal deficiencies and
openly attacks party,and government resolutions, tries to discredit party
functionaries, ridicule them and create distrust in the party leadership.
In this manner it tries to disturb party unity and its close ties with
the working masses.
The communist system is labelled ineffective. In order to describe
the bourgeois society best, they use demagogic statements about the sup-
posed values of capitalism, about absolute freedom, humanism and a pure
democracy. From this it is evident that questions of democracy and freedom
are being placed at the forefront of the ideological struggle. They place
their greatest interest in the personal, political and social rights of
our citizens, in the system of political parties,'the purpose of social
organizations, the status of individual state agencies and national com-
mittees.
The enemy central ancies are especially interested in the area
of science and the arts. Re enemy protects all extreme and revisionist
elements, attempts to create doubts as to whether Marxism is right, or
adherence to the party, etc. He tries to penetrate our scientific re-
search, bring in and encourage non-Marxist opinions, defend idaalism.
A part of his efforts to gain influence over our scientific workers, to
fascinate them, is corruption, though frequently kept under cover. This.,
has been found even by some of our scholarship students in the capitalist
countries.
A number of examples testifies that workers in these fields are
being sought out purposely and that interest in them is not accidental
but is organized purposefully. Before the start of a discussion during
a lecture tour in the West, our leading scientific worker was told that
all his works had been studied thoroughly and that he therefore had to
reply in the sense of his heretofore unpublished works. It was obvious
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that the guestions directed at him were designed to ascertain the present
status of Czechoslovak research. The "colleagues" of two other workers of
the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences systematically questioned them on the
current status of our research during the American visit. This "interest"
exceeded the scope of a normal exchange of scientific experiences.
The importance of gaining highly trained members of the intelligentsia
was underscored by President Johnson who, in January of this year, proposed
to the Congress a faster and more benevolent expedition of immigration form-
alities for highly trained persons and for specialists. A representative of
American public life expressed this more factually when he said: "It costs
us 4$200,000 to train an expert in this country, and only, one out of 500
graduates is worth anything". Thus they concentrate on additionally re-
cruitin,g experts and scholarship recipients from all over the world since
they expect that at least 10% of these, will request immigrairion.
These efforts can be rounded out by the following. example: A number
of immigrants and scholarship students vrork in the laboratories of Indiana
(USA) University, for ages far below the average American standards. A
university representative, at the time a consulting expert to the American
government, offered the Czechoslovak scholarship student an extension of
his stay for two or more years, or permanently.
Similar cases occurred in the arts. A representative of a foreign
art agency would comb to t1 CSSR and engage dancers for tours in various
countries, includia g East Germany. He promised that, following the en-
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in East Germany, he would provide them with a glorious life and
artistic career in the West. During their stay in East Germany,some -visited
West Berlin where a Czech emigrant got in touch with them. He had been well
informed about their, personal lives, gradually began to compromise them and
thus created a situation facilitating his endeavor to 'gain them for informing.
Roman Jacobson, an American scientist, visited the CSSR. As a worker
at Harvard University (US) and an American intelligence expert for Eastern
Europe he made recommendations on how best"to influence the Czechoslovak
intelligentsia. Some of his proposals -- mailing literature publicizing
the American way of life to a private address, interesting cultural and
scientific workers in contact with representative offices of capitalist
countries,'offers of US scholarship to young scientists to influence them
ideologically, have been implemented.
One of the areas at which imperialist diversion is especially directed
is the life of our young people. Their inexperience in life, instability
of character and naivete, combined with our insufficient educational in-
fluence, provide fertile soil for an active foreign ideology, anarchism
and uncritical admiration of the western way of life. Enemy tendencies,
smuggled among our youth, have affected a part of them unfavorably. This
has become apparent in the negative tendencies of some youth groups in the
recent past. The enemy start with the simple fact that youngsters like
music, especially jazz. With the aid of music they attempt to influence
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the young, draw them to listening to foreign broadcasts and away from public
and political life, thus affecting them negatively.
This increased interest evidenced in the young people leads them to
use, in their propaganda, largely socialist terms, together with a good dosage
of social demagogy and pleasing slogans. They declare that their aim is to
attain full and free development of the human personality, a just distrib-
ution of the national revenue, etc. This demagogic play with socialist slo-
gans is to deceive youth in the socialist countries,-that youth for which
capitalism is lodged in the deep past.
Forms of Ideological Penetration
By using ideological diversion the enemy attempts to transmit the war
of ideas into our country by various means. He accumulates . many facts
and data on specific phenomena., regions and groups vzhich they wish to in-
fluence. Information obtained about our country also is used to influence
their own citizens in the anticommunist spirit. They do not use direct
lies in their argunents'but rather deformed and distorted half-truths,
stolen slogans, etc. In their anticommunist struggle they are activating
all existing bourgeois, jorganizations and propaganda instruments in the
entire so-called free world.
. The greatest mass penetration in the most advantageous may of enemy
propaganda into our country, and one which is most important for the of-
ficial agencies of the bourgois world, is the use of tourist travel. Visits
by citizens of the capitalist countries have been increasing year by year.
While in 1962 Czechoslovakia was visited by 131,347 foreigners and in 1963
by 1341342, the number of visitors from capitalist countries last year was
71,210. The overwhelming part of these come to the CSSR with the sincere
desire to become acquainted with the lives of our'peop)e .
However, the enemy central agencies have different ideas concerning
the expansion of tourism. They try to use it for political agitation and
for the infiltration of a bourgois ideology. Tourists coming here are in-
structed in the methods of propagandizing, and some receive actual tasks
about which they must submit -ritten reports upon their return.
American anticommunists issue a number of guide books and instructions
for tourists summarizing experiences and advice on how to behave and how to
react to a situation, and how to propagate the bourgois ideology during their
visits to socialist countries. For example, in the guidebooks issued in.,
the US entitled "The Soviet Union" and "Agitator's Diary" it is recommended
to Americans to evidpnce greater flexibility in their answers to questions
that are most vulnerble to the US (unemployment, race discrimination, etc.)
The instructions contain a recommendation that facts should be given false-
ly if this is necessary "in the interest of the matter". This is borne
out also by Robert Kennedy's statement at a seminar dealing with the pro-
gramming of student trips abroad in 1962: "You can be very pleasant and
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attractive and yearn to see a foreign country, but if you cannot agitate
for .A.7:erica, you better stay at home..."
These and other exhortations find a ready echo in some. Daring their
visit, here and in their contact with our citizens they falsely describe and
praise conditions in the West as truly ideal, point out fine opportunities
for private enterprise. They undervalue the growth of socialise in the
CSSR, praise and defend various nationalistic and chauvinistic tendencies,
encourage Czech citizens to emigrate and to undertake hostile actions against
our government. Some misuse tourism to corrupt out citizens, to engage in
foreign currency machinations, even to become guilty of punishable acts.
One of these was Fritz 'Walter og Vienna. In addition to engaging in a number
of punishable acts, subterfuges and larceny, he enticed' a Czech woman to
emigrate by threatening her.
In November 1964, Helmuth Draivs-Tischen, a West Gernan professor,
arrived in the CSSR the editor of a magazine called Journal of Austro-
nesian Studies. He came to exchange experiences with our scientific work-
ers. However, instead, he attacked our socialist administration during his
visits to scientific institutes, grossly insulted state functionaries, the
Czech and Slovak"natIons. When Czechoslovak citizens protested against
his insults he cried that they were infecting him with communist propa-
ganda. The scientific workers with whom he was in contact alerted the
appropriate offices to his offensive behavior. It was decided that his
further stay in the CSSR was undesirable, and he was requested to leave.
On occasion, and upon returning from the CSSR, tourists write biased
articles to discredit the growth of socialism here before the workers of
the capitalist world. An example is Billy Holder's. article- entitled "Few
are Happy in Paradise", in the Almagordo Daily Now. He grossly misre-
presents the Czechoslovak situation, belittles socialist } anagement, the
life of our people, our standard of living, etc.
The enemies of our socialist republic also misuse trips by Czecho-
slovak citizens to capitalist countries for the infiltration of a bourgeois
ideology. They attach themselves to them under various excuses, often
right after they cross the border. They look them up in their places of
residence, offer various services and gifts, provide one-time financial
aid, invite them to selected and properly instructed families. They
affect interest in economic and political problems and persuade them,
in a number of cases, not to return to their homeland. They promise to
secure favorable jobs for them, furnished apartments and other advantages.
They often gain them for espionage projects.
For example, one Czechoslovak woman citizen was visited by the ?
police during her stay in West Germany, and persuaded to emigrate. They
provided her with financial aid, and she was showered with special care
and attention throughout her stay. ,She even was given a chance to take
a trip to France. She told about it all upon her return to the CSSR.
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Anothoi woman citizen said, upon her return from West Germany, that during
her registration at the city hall in Gemunden officials were trying to
persuade her to stay in West Germany. She was premised various advantages,
including a complete pension.
A citizen who was visiting his mother in West Germany was called upon
by an unknown man who appealed to his German nationality and asked him to
sign up for cooperation with the intelligence service. Our citizen who was
being threatened by the recruiter, apparently accepted, but upon his return
advised the Czechoslovak authorities of all that had transpired.
In a number of cases such enemy action is aided actively by some
Czechoslovak citizens who, when abroad, do not, behave in a manner suitable
for a citizen of a socialist country.
These examples of activities by foreigners during their stay in this
country, and of influence on our citizens traveling to capitalist countries
are but a part of the enemy's efforts and intentions. We cannot remain in-
different to these efforts, but will continue to battle actively and im-
placably against enemy action by foreigners. As far as our own citizens are
concerned, we will have to acquaint them better and more thoroughly with
the, methods of hostile propaganda and educate them in the spirit of so-
cialist patriotism, in the spirit of conviction of the inevitable victory
of socialism) and communism the world over, in a spirit of pride in their
nation which is one of the first to build a new, truly human, society.
Another form of penetration of hostile ideologies is to disseminate
and transmit various printed matter, literature, flyers, etc. A number of
governmental and non-governmental institutions, foundations and universi-
ties are engaged in publishing magazines, publications and various anti-
communist materials. These publications extol the American way of life,
praise western democracy and spread lies about the countries in the social-
ist camp. Ideologi6al diversion carried out by this method also includes
the so-called "post-?ffice project" organized by the United States. They
send "scientific" books and anticommunist treatises such as bourgeois
magazines, newspapers, brochures etc. to the leading political, cultural
and economic workers and to functionaries of social organizations. The
amount of printed matter sent to Czechoslovakia is constantly increasing.
While in 1963 2,067,416 printed pieces were sent, this number increased to
2,250,600 last year.
This activity is actively aided by the Czech and Slovak post-February
emigration. They influence a part of the compatriot public and try to ex-
tend this influence to the CSSR via the publications issued. The type of
activity they engage in is illustrated by the following example.
In the periodical "Slobodne Slovensko"/Free Slovakia/ published in
Nunich by the Slovak emigration, the."representatives of the Slovak reli-
gious, cultural and political life in the free world" published a decla-
ration addressed.to the "enslaved nation in the fatherland". The decla-
ration, among other matters, contains the following:"... Slovaks welcome
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the idea of a European, or central European federation. To implement this
idea they will gladly sacrifice any amount of their sovereignty. But, for
all future times, theyymish to live under their own name, their own govern-
ment, their on representation. They stand decisively against communist
propaganda, against Marxist atheism and against falsification of our old
and more recent Slovak history..."
.1 number of other periodicals, printed matter and literature sent to
us have a similar content to purposely influence our citizens negatively,
to sow distrust among them and to encourage bourgois nationalist tendencies.
Radio propaganda also has its place in the system of ideological
penetration. Twelve broadcasting stations beamed to Czechoslovakia devote
almost 90 hours daily to Czech and Slovak broadcasts. The inflammatory
broadcasts of Radio Free Europe with its 45 broadcasts daily which are 19
hours long is but a link in a chain of broadcast propaganda: The Voice
of America is active here3'A also Madrid, Paris, Rome, Deutsche Welle, etc.
The purpose of their broadcasts to our country is to create distrust in
building socialism-,and' commwiism, to abuse and slander the countries in
the socialist camp' to,disruptthe unity of this camp, attack party and
government officials and, lately, to belittle all measures dedicated to
eliminate the deficiencies in our national economy.
In addition to these organizations there are additional institutions
in the capitalist countries dealing with ideological subversion. Among
them are press agencies, broadcasting companies, church institutions and
organizations with religious overtones such as the anticommunist organiz-
ation called Moral Rearmament. The US has established a so-called Special
Program for Cultural Representation the purpose of which is to send cul-
tural agents into various parts'of the world. In the past seven years the
United States have sent over 4,000 artists into more than 100 countries of
the world under.this program. In 1963 the State Department has created a
special Bureau of Cultural Relations, an international cultural exchange
agency which coordinates all cultural and scientific activities abroad.
The British government also has been concerned with problems of
"expanding cultural relations". In the middle of 1963 a special co=iittee
was established which directs its activities to Czechoslovakia, Hungary,
Rourwinia and Bulgaria. It is obvious from the composition of this com-
mittee that this is an agency engaged in organizing anticommunist propa-
ganda in the socialist countries. The activities-of this committee lean
on "specialists" in communist affairs.
In the United States there are over 7,000 private "charitable" or-
ganizations whose capital is to contribute to "progress in science and
art, support universities, research institutes, hospitals and support the
development of cultural relations with foreign countries." The funds, how-
ever, are used to entice scientists to the United States and for financial
campaigns against the socialist camp:
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Nor do the churches stay out of the anticommunist struggle. Con-
sistent vrith the new imperialist tactics they have lately turned to new
and more flexible forms of activity. The new coirse of church activity
is a deviation from the old, rough forms and "crusade" methods used against
communism. The imperialists are convinced that the ideology of the
Catholic church in the present situation has all the earmarks of becoming
a "unif ying ideology" of the contemporary "free" world. The use of the
new church policy is outlined in the article "Methods for Fighting Com-
munism" published in the Jesuit periodical Civilta Cattolica in March,
1965. According to it Catholics should not attempt to defeat communism
by physical pressure. Such methods are morally unacceptable and politically
unfruitful. Catholics must wage a total war against communism on a de-
mocratic foundation and with democratic means. The war should be aimed
at disarming communism by,proving.its inability to liberate man from
estrangement and to lift him up spiritually. This form of struggle against
communism, in the opinion"of Jesuit circles, calls for daring and initiative,
patience and a great deal',~~f time. It... It is illusory to believe that we
will rid outselves of communism soon and at a small price; the struggle
will remain the taslt"oi` the present generation and perhaps for future ge-
nerations also..."
The churches also speculate that conditions governing their activi-
ties within our republic will also change in the future. A direct re-.
flection of this attitude are efforts to create a united, antiatheistic
front which could assume a position in society permitisng it to influence
future developments in the.CSSR. They devote much attention to-ensnaring
the young and try to be more active in their ranks.
In the past twenty years the socialist ideology has become deeply
rooted in the conscience of the workers. A crushing majority of citizens
have adopted socialism, even those who formerly did not believe in it or
were fluctuating, This revolutionary process is and was being carried out
in a complicated internal and international situation which still affects
it. It is our task to continue to deepen and strengthen people's con-
science, to educate them to discern the correct from the incorrect, a good
intention from a harmful one.
We must therefore carry on a continuous struggle against all manifest-
ations of the bourgeois ideology, morals, and attempts to renew it. The
bourgoisie is interested in disrupting peoples' psychology, to create moods
of distrust. It utilizes difficulties encountered. in building socialism
and tries to draw people from their path at least a little, be it to the,.
left or to the right. It speculates with outdated ideas and habits, with
the wish for an easy life, wealth, etc.
The Leninist principle of peaceful coexistence in no way permits.
coexistence in the ideological sphere. The theory is still valid that the
bourgeois ideology persists where our own ideology does not. The 12th
Congress of our party has charged all communists with the active battle
against the effects of a hostile ideology, with knowledge of Marxism-
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a hostile ideology is not only a matter for communists but is an important
task for social organizations and for all agencies of a socialist state:
a matter for our entire society.
At several meetings, the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak
Communist Party emphasized the need for stronger ideological efforts by
the party, for concentrated forces to battle hostile ideologies, to isolate
their proponents and to prevent their influence. Only by utilizing in-
tensively all methods for ideological work in a united and purposeful way
can we decisively strike against an enemy ideology. The victory of Marxist-
Leninist ideas which are the expression of the purpose of life of the labor
class, of the gigantic .majority of humanity hoping for peace, freedom and
progress, is indubitable, but it will not be accomplished without our
efforts. /
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