adopted the policy of dividing up the devastated great powers into small separate national states. This policy bears not even a trace of the so-called national principle: Imperialism is essentially inimical to national boundaries, even though they be those of great powers. The new petty bourgeois states are nothing more than the by-products of Imperialism; it has created as temporary props for itself, a whole series of small nations, such as Austria, Hungary, Poland, Jugo-Slavia, Bohemia, Finland, Esthonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Armenia, Georgia and others, some of which are openly oppressed while others are officially patronized, but all are treated as vassals. By means of its banks, railways and coal monopoies, Imperialism dominates these nations, dooming them to intolerable economic and national hardships, to endless conflicts and sanguinary strife.
What an overwhelming irony of fate that the reconstruction of Poland, which formed a part of the program of the revolutionary democracy during the first revolutionary outbursts of the international proletariat, should now be brought about by Imperialism for counter revolutionary ends, and that the "Democracy" of Poland, whose predecessors had died on the barricades of Europe, should be used as a foul and bloody weapon in the murderous hands of the Anglo-French bandits against the first Proletarian Republic in the world!
"Democratic" Czecho-Slovakia has likewise sold itself to French capital, and has furnished White Guard contingents against Soviet Russia and Hungary.
The heroic attempt of the Hungarian proletariat to free itself from the national and economic chaos prevailing in central Europe, and emerge upon the road of a Soviet Federation, which is the only means to salvation, was stifled by the combined forces of capitalist reaction at a time when the proletariat of the more advanced countries of Europe, misled by its parties, proved incapable of doing its duty both toward Socialist Hungary and its own self.
The Soviet Government of Budapest was overthrown with the assistance of the social traitors who after having stayed in power for three and a half days, were themselves overthrown by the unbridled counter-revolutionary canaille, surpassing in its bloody deeds the crimes of Kolchak, Denikin, Wrangel and other Allied agents… But even though temporarily crushed Soviet Hungary is like a beacon light to the toilers of Central Europe.
The Turks are unwilling to submit to the base peace terms dictated by the London tyrants. In order to get these terms fulfiled England has armed Greece and set her against Turkey. Thus both the Turks and the Greeks are given over to mutual destruc-
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