If one reflects on what has happened in the European arena over the last 20 years, it becomes entirely clear that the main cause of the Allies’ current plight is the bourgeois elite’s mortal hatred of ‘communism’.

This hatred has prevented this elite from establishing any sort of stable, friendly relations with the USSR over these 20 years. There have been ups and downs, but, on the whole, our relations have been unsatisfactory throughout. After all, there are only a few major pieces on the international chessboard, and if a player discards even one of these, for whatever considerations, he considerably weakens his position.

Owing to that very hatred, the ruling elite of England and France systematically supported the Japanese warmongers, Mussolini and Hitler. What’s more, it’s that same elite which nurtured Hitler – in the hope that one day he would march east and wring the Bolsheviks’ necks. But the ‘Bolsheviks’ proved too strong and too skilful. Hitler headed not east but west. The ruling elite of England and France fell into the same trap they had set for us.

Now they are paying a cruel price for their class narrowness. It’s just a pity, however, that the masses in England and France are having to pay this price with them – and perhaps even a higher one.

One more thing. The ruling elite of the ‘Western democracies’ has not only lost its chance to play the Soviet card and dug its own grave; it also neglected – such is its conceit and arrogance – to take the trouble to put its armaments in order ‘just in case’. It did not admit the possibility that its ploy might fail and that Hitler might turn not to the east but to the west.

Yes, the ruling classes of England and France are rotten to the core. How else can one explain their gross blindness, their utter class narrowness, and their complete unpreparedness for war?

We are witnessing the fall of the great capitalist civilization, a fall similar in importance to that of the Roman Empire. Or, perhaps, even more important…