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and the police-machine. He wel–
comes nationalism as much as he
can. He has revised his position
with regard to Germany and has
replaced humanitarian phrases
with teeth-smashing acts. He has
replaced his former theory of com–
plete equality among the national–
ities living in the Union with the
exaltation of the Russian nation.
He speaks of pis forty-year old
grief over Russia's loss of southern
Sakhalin in 1905. He recovers Port
Arthur and stretches out his hand
toward African colonies. At the
same time, however, he does his
utmost to strengthen the party, as
though in defiance of the danger–
ous and suspect military machine,
for the latter may be sheltering the
newly threatening political ideas.
Lavrentyi Beria, civilian chief of
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the NKVD, was made a marshal
in order to balance, at least in part,
the promotion of a whole pleiad
of military leaders. The most im–
portant among them, particularly
Zhukov and even Voroshilov, mem–
ber of the Politburo, occupy posts
in Germany and Hungary, and in
Moscow it is generally belleved
that they are deliberately being
kept far from the Kremlin. Mean–
while the Central Committee is
organizing a campaign against the
new deviations.
Ostensibly the war ended with
a tremendous strengthening of the
Soviet government both at home
and abroad. But it also ended in
great ideological confusion. The
strengthening of the government is
paralleled by intellectual disorien-
politics
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