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loving people. Naturally, they helped to inflict a death blow upon Fascism, which had come to the fore as most dangerous enemy and also to seriously weaken colonialism and imperialism in the world. They helped to advance the struggles and peoples revolutions in various countries of the world for national independence, national liberation and peoples revolution. 2.The contradiction and conflict manifested between the Germany-led Fascist bloc and other imperialist powers at the time of Second World War were only a manifestation of inter-imperialist contradiction and conflict. The socialist forces, oppressed nations and the genuine peace forces in that period were sufficiently strong and active. At the international level, they had drawn a clear line of demarcation between themselves and imperialism and could pursue revolutionary strategy and tactics. As a result, they could play an active and independent role in the context of Second World War and there by further intensify the contradiction and conflict between imperialism and socialism; between imperialism and oppressed nations; among the imperialist powers and between the forces of war and people. It is only because of all these reasons, they could foil the conspiracies and evil designs of the imperialists to destroy the socialist country, drawn the struggles and revolutions of the oppressed people in the blood and push back the human progress to decades of darkness; they could inflict powerful blows on imperialism and play a decisive role in the struggle to save the world from a stupendous calamityFascism. 3. There is a fundamental change in the political character of Russia. Today, it is a capitalist country and imperialist country. So its contradiction with US and other imperialist powers is in the nature of inter-imperialist contradiction. In 14 the present situation, it is operating within the frame-work of collusion and contention. It is a country with a strength of weapons in size and quality comparable with US imperialism and it is aspiring for a share in the position to deicide the world issues. Its criticism against the US attempt to impose its hegemony over the world and its clash with the US on some policies are manifestation of this attitude rather than anti-imperialism and anti-hegemonism in true sense of the terms. 4. The US imperialists, who have emerged as the leader of capitalist world, are implementing the political, economic cultural and military strategies aimed at imposing their hegemony over the world. Their acts of threat, intervention, invasion and their military blocs, alliances, groupings, military bases and deployments and their so called global war against terrorism are only a part of them. Naturally, the proletariat and oppressed people of the world in general and the affected people in particular are very much agitated at this development. The protests, movements and resistances that are growing in strength and momentum in various countries are only a manifestation of it. Gaining inspiration from the great struggle waged by the socialist proletarian and oppressed people in the period of Second World War will help to lead the present struggle against imperialism and hegemonism in proper direction. 5. The Chinese proletariat and people have a glorious history of waging struggle against feudalism and imperialism under the leadership of Communist Party and Mao. They foiled the conspiracies and attempts on the part of British and US imperialists to gain control and perpetuate the rule of their comprodars in China. They waged a full scale revolutionary war of resistance against the Japanese militarists who invaded China and had succeeded in evicting them. The New Democratic and Socialist China remained as a source of great inspiration and support for the masse