(SANITIZED)QUARTERLY SURVEY OF COMMUNISM(SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007200240006-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 14, 2008
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: June 28, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF - CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
;. The Parts Line in the Copdnf9r Janrnal.
1. An editorial in the issue of 7 Januat7t dealing mainly With familiar
organisational themes, stated the present tasks oonf onting Communist
parties outside the orbit as: "to lead the struggle
a. for peace
b. for banning nuclear Weapons
co against attacks on
A. the democratic rights and
interests of working people.
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B. their democratic met
C. the national independence and
sovereignty of now capitalist
countries".
2. The Cowin form Journal r efleoted the preoccupation of the Soviet . leaders
with the situation inside the U.S.S.R. and the satellites during this
period, which a ar both the f all of Malankow and the made it IaV4a
position in Hungary. The line fore f igR Campatnist parti.s ` adCpt t
their official and public pronmnoemsnto an the resign tiao o f Mai sv,
was implicit in the terms of his esplana letter to the 911pr we Soviets
this was to be (for the present at azC- rate' a aiwilisid affair, the
stepping down frog high office of a um11-intentioned men a had fomd it
all too much for hie. A deeper meaning was to be found in the refermllOer
to Bukharin and Rykov in Xbrushohey's report to the central Cer^dttee of
the C.P.S.U. and in his denunciations, repeated In one editorial after
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another and in an article signed by Luigi Longo of the P.C.I., of the "sorry
theoreticians" and "vulgarisers of Marxism" in the U.S.S.R. and Hungary who
had underest;mated the importance of heavy industry and collective farming,
and who had tried to prove that light industry can and must outstrip all others.
The "morass of opportunism" awaited these right-wing deviationists who had
abandoned Leninist principles and were "belittling the leading role of the Party.
3. To any well-read Party theoretician, whether sorry or otherwise, this language
must have sounded like a warning that the present Communist line - opportunist
as it is in everything but name - might be due for a change; but against this
must be set an article which appeared in the issue dated 1 April, entitled
"Combating Sectarianism", which restated the broad, rightist line of today and
denounced the sectarians who cloak themselves in "ultra-revolutionary talk" and
refuse to work among the broad masses of the people. To sum up: no change in
the Party line on this side of the Curtain; on the other, heavy industry fully
restored as the sacred cow, flanked by animal husbandry and crop-raising.
4. The World Peace Council campaign for the abolition of nuclear weapons has now
overtaken thestruggle against German rearmament as the principal "Peace" theme
in the Cominform Journal. Communist parties were exhorted to support the Peace
Partisans in thestruggle against "the criminal schemes of the atom maniacs" and
to help them reach the target of a thousand million signatures. Molotov's
statement that another war would mean the end of capitalism, but not of civili-
zation itself, is now astock theme.
5. Special occasions which received publicity in the Journal during this quarter
were :
a. The Afro-,Asian Conference. This was represented as a defeat
for U. S. diplomacy, since their efforts to persuade govern-
ments to refuse the invitations had been ba iked..
b. The anniversary of the death of Lenin. This was played down,
in view of the recent decision by the Central Committee of the
C.P.S.U. to transfer celebrations from this day (21 January) to
his birthday (22 April).
c. International Women's Day.
d. Fifth anniversary of the Sino-Soviet Treaty. This received
normal prestige treatment, and an editorial stressed the vast
economic assistance andwealth of experience which the U.S.S.R.
was giving to China.
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3. Policy towards Yugoslavia
39. Difficulties over the implementation of the new policy towards Yugoslavia
continued; the matter is reported to have been discussed at closed meetings,
though there seems to have been no open discussion and the subject was avoided
at the Conference. In Trieste, Vittorio Vidali, the Party Secretary, has shown
a striking lack of decision. After having expressed continuing anti Tito
sentiments immediately after the charge, he later modified his opposition and
at the Trieste Co monist Party (P.C.T.T.) Conference, held shortly after the
P.C.I. Conference, stressed the importance of collaboration with Yugoslavia
not only in the cultural but also in the political field. More recently, how-
ever, he is reported to have demanded that the P.C.T.T. should be represented
at discussions in communist parties over the restatement of the Comiinform line
towards Yugoslavia, in order that Tito's.paet misdeeds should not be entirely
forgotten. In cae Gorizia Federation there was such uncertainty and bewilder-
ment among inhabitants of the frontier area, who were afraid to make contact
with pro Tito Slovenes lest they should later be accused of "diversionary
sympathies", that meetings have been held to explain, albeit inadequately, the
new policy. UNCODED
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