861.00/11913: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Steinhardt) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 4—10:39 a.m.]
1872. The official Communist Party slogans for the November 7th anniversary this year are almost entirely devoted to the Soviet-German war. Internal slogans urge intensification of the war effort of the Soviet armed forces and populace. The usual slogan praising the N. K. V. D.25 is omitted, and little is said about the Communist Party except its war effort. International slogans salute Russia’s allies, express sympathy for the peoples of Fascist-occupied countries and berate Fascism. Of these, one salutes the Anglo-Soviet military alliance, and another the United States of America for its assistance to England, the U. S. S. R., and other nations in the present war against German Fascist aggressors. There is no mention of China. A slogan salutes Fascist-oppressed Slav peoples living outside the U. S. S. R., and another salutes the German people who are groaning under the Hitlerite yoke, wishes the Germans victory over Hitler. The slogan [Page 654] of most interest sends fraternal greetings to “our brothers the Ukrainians, White Russians, Moldavians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians and Karelians,” and urges them to conduct guerrilla warfare against the Fascist troops of occupation and to await the coming of the Russians, who “will again come to you.”
- The “Secret Police” of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs.↩