SOVIET UNION EASTERN EUROPE

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 29, 2002
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• Publication Date: August 29, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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Soviets on the Offensive Against China in
Asia and the International Communist Movement. . . 1
East German and Czechoslovak Media
Assail China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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Soviets on the. Offensive Against China in
Asia and t e n ernationa Communist Movement
Soviet propagandists are playing up the need
for an Asian security conference similar to the re-
cently concluded European one. The latest issues
of New Times and Tzvestiya on August 27 carry ar-
ticles which stress the applicability to Asia of
the principles agreed to at the Helsinki summit.
Not surprisingly, the principle the Soviets
deem most relevant for Asia is the one on the in-
violability of frontiers. The Izvestiya article attacks.
Maoists and "revanchists" in Japan for favoring ter-
ritorial revision, and claims that most Asian coun-
tries, including India, favor resolving frontier
disputes by peaceful means.
Izvestiya seems to imply that the Middle East
should be included in the area to be covered by any
Asian security arrangement. This is the first time
the Soviets have publicly suggested this, although
Mikhail Kapitsa, chief of the Foreign Ministry's
First Asian Division, said much the same thing pri-
vately on August 19. This addition of the Middle
East only underlines the propagandistic purpose of
the Soviet Asian security concept. The Soviets are
under no illusions about the short-term prospects
for their proposals, and Kapitsa himself was forced
to admit to a Western diplomat that it was an idea
whose time was still several years away.
The renewed emphasis on Asian collective se-
curity is not only a logical follow-on to the Euro-
pean security conference, but it also appears to be
part of a new propaganda campaign against China.
For example, the latest issue of the Soviets' lead-
ing theoretical journal, Kommunist, carries a lengthy
editorial article on China.
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T h e text of the article is not yet available,
but some 'of, its- main.points, such as the admoni-
tion against neutral or conciliatory attitudes to-
ward China, are already being echoed by Moscow's
stalwarts in East Europe. (See following item.)
One purpose of the Kommunist article, and the
broader Soviet campaign, is to establish-a hard
line on China for the benefit of wayward thinkers
such as the Romanians and the Yugoslavs. In claim-
ing that anti-Sovietism is becoming institutionalized
in China, Moscow may be arguing against the possi-
bility of a softer line out of Peking after Mao dies.
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East German and Czechos.iQvak,Media Assail China
Two of Moscow's most loyal allies have leveled
propaganda broadsides at China.
The East German party daily on August 25 car-
ried a scathing anti Maoist article that asserted
that the "reactionary, aggressive circles of im-
perialism" have the Maoist leadership on their side.
Peking was soundly chastized for its "massive and
vociferously promoted preparations for war, open es-
tablishment of blocs with the reactionary forces of
imperialsim against the Soviet Union...and intensi-
fication of Maoist great-power chauvinism."
Peking was also accused of attempting to es-
tablish Maoism as an international current, to weaken
the international solidarity of the pro-Moscow parties,
and to make territorial claims against the USSR.
The Czechoslovaks got into the act the next day,
when Bratislava Pravda carried two anti-Maoist ar-
ticles. One charged the Chinese leadership with play-
ing an "extraordinarily harmful role" in the current
international situation and of aligning its foreign
policy with "the most reactionary imperialist forces
and states." The second charged that China does not
take the results of CSCE seriously and advocates a
buildup of American forces in Europe.
These attacks, obviously inspired by Moscow, may
be intended to start the ball rolling for a show of
solidarity against China at the preparatory session
for the conference of European communist parties in
I East Berlin next month. Bratislava Pravda hinted as
much, stating "the European communist parties are
arduously analyzing the new elements of the situa-
tion, particularly in connection with the preparation
of the conference of European communist parties...."
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