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Paul Robeson Sr — Part 24
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aU aE ec enmlen apee ade a i ae a ll a it plt de e a al le Nal Hn aa el a
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States amongst the other colored raced th Asia, Africa and the Americas,
As can de seen from ths spesch Stalin mide in 1929 on the american question,
which ia on file with the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and, @urihg 1
iclivr Sy Stalin, even then, considered the United States 1
the chief antagonist to hie designs for World conquest. In fact, the United Stats
always wos a payer ani difficult problem for the Moscow strategists. The problem
wae made difficult by our high standard of living, our wnusual freedoms, the ume
» harmony of 80 many creeds and races living in the United States all fet which, hex
F erento for the United States an umusual prestige and an ettractive Gower enongst
the masses of the vorld, The United States had no colonies to speak of, was mt
bred
holding down other nations, had no rigid class or caste ayatem, it was not imperil
istic; all, of which mie it difficult for Moscow to apply ite usual disintegrats:
and propoganda cliches, It took the master-minds of Moscow fifteen (15) years to
find special methods of operation applicable to the United States and they are
etill experimmmting even today,
In the Winter of 1926 MM anueleky, prosent Soviet delegate to t
United Nations, ani, at that time, Stalin's head man at Communist International,
Headquarters in Moscow, that a new policy was being devised in reference to the
American nearo, The sense of that new policy wea that the American Negroes vare |
Bation, oppressed by American imperlaliam; that 1s, they were to. be inbued vith t
idea that they are a colonial people oppressed by a big empire and that the Comnn
iet Party of the United States should have, ae one of ite principal tasks, the
liberation cof the negro sa a nation,
Thies liberation was to be accomplished by the formation of an independent
Yegre State in the so-called Black Belt of the South with its own goverment, ite
ewnrarny, its own courts, its own diplomatic service, ot cetera.
The vhole idea seemed to MY Commists then residing in Moscow
to be inprectical (ay never thought of the negro as a nation
. ~-- Within a melting-pot nation like the United states but, cleo, had been
aay
“reared on Lenin's theory who definitely did not consider the fmerican negro as
nd be notion, According to Lenin, the following were: the essential charnctartetics
of a mations
"s.2 oie historically evolved, stable conmunity of language, territory,.
econmmic life, and paychological mke-up, manifested in a cammnity of culture."
Bone of thease characteristice are applicable to the Anerican Negro, whose
culture, language, economic life, etc., 16 entirely indistincs fron the rest of
the country in which he lives, The only thing that differentiates him fram the
Fest had the Anotécan population ie bis rectal Deckgrownlly,
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2k aI et arbor sea ea inet = S Re a at ee ee oe
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