Klaus Fuchs Quotes
I was ready to accept the philosophy that the Party is right and that in the coming struggle you could not permit yourself any doubts after the party had made a decision.
Fuchs, Klaus. "Statement of Klaus Fuchs, 27 January 1950." Klaus Fuchs, Atom Spy, by Robert Chadwell Williams, Harvard University Press, 1987, pp. 183-187.
He was about to become President but his overt, sharp criticism of Communism caused him to be shunted aside.
Lev Davidovich Bronstein. Unfortunately, such party loyalty was not limited to the Communists. Excessive and unconditional party loyalty, and the extreme partisanship that goes with it, plagues many American politicians to the detriment of the country.
In 1927 the Russian Communist Party changed its position regarding the world union movement. Prior to that the Communists would not organize unions competing with already existing trade unions. Foster was one of the communist leaders who was the strongest advocate of this solidarity of the working class. However, after years of preaching one thing, he reversed himself. This type of adherence to party discipline led to him getting a derogatory nickname. See {592421}.
Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who supplied information from the American, British, and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after World War II. While at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Fuchs was responsible for many significant theoretical calculations relating to the first nuclear weapons and, later, early models of the hydrogen bomb. After his conviction in 1950, he served nine years in prison in the United Kingdom and then moved to East Germany where he resumed his career as a physicist and scientific leader.
