World Revolution Quotes
Vladimir Lenin. This is a very important historical quotations. It was made by Lenin soon after the 1917 Russian Revolution and surprisingly to most he declared that the exporting of the Communist Revolution was more important than the national interest of communist Russia. Many Western nations, including the U. S. sent troops to part of Russia on various pretexts and it appeared to many that the West was ganging up against Russian Communism and interfering with their internal affairs. However, in effect, the new Russian state, with the attitude expressed by this quotation, was declaring a type of revolutionary war on all the capitalist nations who saw this fledgling mess of a country as a potential threat. They were right.
Vladimir Lenin. This statement was key in developing a great fear of the Communists by most of the capitalistic world. Most people in the West had seen that the conditions were so terrible in Russia that a revolution might be a good thing for the Russians—even a Communist revolution. But when the new Russian Communist Leader made this statement, most countries then regarded the Russian Communist party as a potential menace and threat to their stability.
Like many in the 1920s, Dewar saw the Communist Soviet Union as the biggest potential risk to peace. However, although the Russian leaders constantly castigated the West, they did not have a large military, and were for the most part highly anti-war as they saw war as the product of Capitalistic competition and the tool of the aristocracy. They had little military equipment and almost no training or officer corps with which to build any Army. Germany in contrast had the skill, experience, officers, a history of aggression, and huge resentment over what they considered their humiliating WWI defeat and peace terms. They would start WWII, not Russia.
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.
No one knows whether or not Castro was really sincere in making this offer. The Russians rejected it of course. If they made a first strike on the United States, Russia would have been crippled completely by the retaliation, and they knew it. Castro knew that they knew it and might have been counting on the fact that the Russians would reject his heroic offer. Alternatively, he may have been enough of a fanatic to sacrifice his own life that that of every single Cuban.
Kennan had been asked to explain why the Soviet Union was opposed to the newly formed World Bank and International Monetary Fund, but he also took the opportunity to offer a perceptive, wide-ranging essay about the methods and motives of Soviet communism and how the United States should respond.
