a fashion among some of the people who proclaim themselves as Marxist-Leninists do the same in unison with the propagandists of imperialism who remained silent for a long period after June , 1941 .
One thing must be said here fascism was not a phenomenon in Germeny and Italy and their allies , there were fascists in other countries who acted as “ fifth columns ” of Hitler . In Sweden , Norway , France etc there were people within the ruling classes and well known politicians who acted as agents of Hitler . It was done in a planed way by the fascists because it is a known strategy that the easiest way to seize it from within . So Soviet Union had to look after two completely different things at atime . One was to use the industries developed during the Five Year Plans to produce materials for war and another was to keep a vigil so that traitors cannot make way . Both were not easy tasks . For the first , certain changes of policy in plans were to be made , planning from the Centre was given preference instead of planning from both centre and the most peripheral places and people . But second was more challenging : There were leaders , most reputed leaders like Zinoviev , Kamenev , Bakayer etc . who conspired and were tried openly before Soviet and foreign press , foreign diplomats and government offices . There are many accounts of these trials . Only people who hate socialism from the core of their heart raise questions about them . There is no scope to detail out the trial procedure and outcome , and the remarks of the foreign paper agencies , foreign civil libertarians , diplomats , who were present there .
In July , 1937 , Marshal Tukachersky along with seven other commanders were brought to trial , a secret trial in order to keep military secrets undivulged , and found they were being paid by Hitler .
Yes , there were a few convictions of innocent citizen even leaders . But the situation through which Soviet Union was passing was an extraordinary situation . Moreover it was found that one GPV chief was brought to trial for arresting innocents . But it is clear that Soviet Govt . was against any trial of innocent people .
However , the whole exercise created one condition that German could not find any ‘ fifth column ’ in the USSR .
Now let us come to real story of war of the whole people carried by the Socialist Soviet Union . Attacking Soviet Union Hitler declared that it was “ The greatest military march in history ”. There were not empty words . Nine million men were in active battle over entire 1800 mile of western border of Soviet Union . The tactics was called blitzkrieg , to storm into the enemy forces with superior artilary armaments and air raids and after breaking the resistance spreading with tanks to take control over the civilian people . Hitler used it
November - 2017 successfully in European theatre . In Russia , too , it was aimed at taking over Leningrad in the north , Moscow at the Centre and in the South Kiev and Odessa . Once these cities are seized whole of the USSR would be in the hands of Germany was the idea of that blitzkrieg .
Not only Germany and its generals , but also the powers opposing the German Axis forces , thought that whole of the USSR would be under Germany within a month . They were thinking as the bourgeois military strategists think . They had no imagination about how socialism had changed the people of Russia . Stalin knew it so well . In the first radio speech he declared that – “ There are no invincible army and never have been ”. The called upon the people to give fascist forces a taste of “ war of the whole people ”, which will be the counter- strategy to fight the enemy forces .
Weeks went on , then months , Germans found that they are being lured in the deep but having no rear . In the European theatre , the German army used to cut off the enemies rear here the opposite started . In Soviet Union every factory , every farm , every school , every office became a front . Those who were not directly involved in war were producing armaments and food and other necessities for the war and for the people . When German forces overran a place they found what the bourgeois military strategists called “ Scorched earth ” meaning everything was burnt or destroyed before retreating . But actually now it did not happen so . Peasants retreated harvesting their crops , may be a bit early , and also with their farm machinery and started production in faraway places in the east . Workers took away all the machineries including nuts and bolts to start another factory in an eastern area selected by the authority .
Two examples can be given here . The dam on river Dnieper was the result of a long political struggle as well as struggle for building up a dam which was technologically a marvel for the USSR . The engineers and workers finished it before time . But those same engineers and workers did destroy the same dam which had so much sentiments connected with their lives to stop the advance of the enemy and remained in the rear of the enemy to carry on guerrilla attacks . Kharkhov Tractor Industries started producing tankers . But when German forces advanced , most of the workers left with all the machineries to the east and only a few remained to assemble the last of tankers which moved from factory to the enemy front and then stayed back to resist them .
Such actions of people all over the country is possible when they find that they themselves have developed a society of their choice , a social order of their choice and that is Socialism . In building that society they found that they have a leader who is
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