Earl Browder Quotes
I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung.
Browder, Earl. "How Stalin Ruined the American Communist Party." Harper's Magazine, Mar. 1960, p. 47.
who worked with the Communists. The Communists were to Flip-flop again when Russia needed arms and assistance to fight Hitler when the pact broke down. See {595773}
This was only 6 years after the Russian Revolution. Communist Russia had extended its influence to much of the world without firing a shot. To many, communism looked like the future. The Russian inability to make communism work economically in the next 70 years destroyed most of its influence.
WWII had come while most of the world was still recovering from the Great Depression. Communists, the world over, were expecting a major revolution in America, Britain and most industrial nations. However, continuation of Theodore Roosevelt’s reforms, the Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, the strong American wartime economy, Eleanor Roosevelt’s human rights accomplishments at the UN, the Marshall Plan and Truman’s support of non-communist governments in Europe, and the Labor Party coming to power in Great Britain produced an atmosphere of progress and hope, which provided an alternative to a proletarian revolution and communism. The Cold War then was the only road for international communism.
During the Cold War and afterwards many Americans attributed the problems we were having with the Soviet Union emenated from the fact that they were Communists, and our focus was anti-communism. Kennen, however argued that it was not Communism that was the cause of the Aggression of the Soviet Union. It was an extension of the Russian Culture. After the Soviet Union collapsed, and Communism was rejected by the Russians, we still had a great deal of Russian aggression and Foreign Policy problems with Russia. Kennan was right. It was the Russian culture, history, values and traditions that were the primary cause of most of the problems with Russia.
Russia suffered enormous casualties in WWII where over 20 million Russians were killed. None the less, at the end of the war Europe was devastated with no viable economy. The fascist states and the democracies were all devastated. But Russia was still functioning. Instead of crediting the enormous Russian land mass, the success of the Russian Army, and the enormous amount of aid that the U. S. had provided, Stalin concluded that the reason was the Soviet Communist System.
He was a virulent anti communist and an opponent and foe of Chiang Kai-shek who he regarded as too moderate.
In one of the most dramatic events in the history of Russia the President resigned his leadership post of the Communist Party.
The PBSUCCESS unit was attempting to thwart the Communist movements in Guatemala.
The one area where communists were successful was in fighting for the Russian Homeland in WWII and the subsequent assault on Germany from the East. Most American military experts did not believe that the Russians could hold out. However with American weapons and supplies they proved most effective in causing German casualties. The Russians, however, had lost 22 million soldiers and civilians—a fearful cost. But the Communists proved they could lead a nation at war, and this success bought them 50 years of acceptance from the Russian people before their inability to manage a civilian society finally became clear and the Soviet Union collapsed.
Earl Russell Browder was an American political activist and leader of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). Browder was the General Secretary of the CPUSA during the 1930s and first half of the 1940s.
