SOVIET PROPAGANDA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 January 1941, Page 6

SOVIET PROPAGANDA

SIGNIFICANCE OF PRESS REPORTS. The significance of Russian press rei ports describing and praising British ' resistance to the German air offensive J is discussed by a contributor to the i "Christian Science Monitor. These Russian reports, so friendly for EngI land and so unwelcome for the Germans. all tend to hurt Herr Hitler's ■i pride in his invincible forces.” the i writer says, "and everybody knows 1 that if the latter is foiled at any point he is liable to act against the advice of his collaborators. That is possibly what Mr Stalin wants him to do in the case of the British Isles. That j procedure would also be in lino with ! the Russian technique used m regard ! to Italy before she entered the war. I Only a few days before Italy declared I war on the Allies, the controlled Rus- ; sian press scoffed at the Italians 'who ; trv to evade their obligations toward the Reich.' Mr Stalin wanted the Fas- ■ cists to enter the war. too. just as i articles in "Pravda” or "Izvestia” indicated that 'the Germans would have 5 to decide soon whether they want to ■ start the invasion at al!.’ Finally, an j occasional smile toward England gives : Stalin a great bargaining power in his territorial deals with the Axis However favourable for England as the Soviet reports on the war may , be. one must have no illusions regardi ing their purpose. Moscow will never fight against ’British capitalism; nor ■for the British soldier-workers.' It j will only tight for its own interests and i then only if it has nothing to risk, or I everything to defend "