Fraternity-Testvériség, 1950 (28. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1950-03-01 / 3. szám
TESTVÉRISÉG S Semmi kifogásolni valót nem találtak. Sőt elismerésüket nyilvánitották. Az 1949-ben végzett munkáért, a becsületes munkálkodás eredményeiért Istené a dicsőség. A mi megtiszteltetésünk az, hogy szolgálhatunk. És a szolgálatban hűeknek találtatunk. A hűséggel szolgálónak úgy központunkban, mint osztályainknál, ezúton is hálás köszönetét mondok. Áldjon meg az Ur mindnyájunkat, áldja meg Egyesületünket, hogy továbbra is áldás lehessünk. THE RISING TIDE OF PAN-SLAVISM ENDRE SEBESTYEN Free Magyar Reformed Church Leechburg, Pennsylvania (Continued from last month.) In the treatment of the Russian orge we do well if we keep the word “slippery” constantly in mind. It is a well-known fact that there is nothing slippery in Marxist ideology. On the contrary, it it a clear-cut proposition, a system of clearly definable identity. It has definite views on all issues, and there is no ambiguity in its policies. Openly, and without disguise, it stands for certain ends, in the pursuance of which it calls for, nay it demands, a certain brand of class consciousness. In sharp contrast with pure Communism, the ideological crazy quilt commonly passing as Russian Communism, far from presenting a clearly definable identity, is indeed slippery as an eel. There is not a single issue on which it has definite, unchangeable views. What it asserts today, it will, as exigencies demand, deny tomorrow. What holds good today in one state of its orb, may at the same time be anathema in another state of the same orb. It does not tolerate class consciousness or, for that matter, any kind of consciousness. It calls for and demands unreasoning submission and, since reason is the primary distinguishing mark of human beings, it must of necessity debase men into beasts which neither think nor reason. It no sooner makes a pact, than it breaks it, because its very nature excludes unvarying, strict adherence to any set of definite rules of conduct. Carryiny at its very core a colossal falsehood, it is incapable of sticking to principles, it shifts. It transforms the pure gold of human ideals into the debased currency of an ideological nihilism. While pure Communism speaks a language understandable to all, its perverted Pan-Slav varition has developed to all, its own thieves’ jargon in which there is not a single word meaning what it pretends to mean. It brands accepted ideas on state and nationality as so much trash, only to turn around and set up blandly Red Russia as the devoted motherland, the unselfish liberator and the faithful guardian of all nations, in return for which it is the bounden duty of the populace of these redeemed nations to fall into daily superpatriotic fits, pull out their dirty red rags, parade up and down the streets, shouting themselves hoarse in the praises of the greatest patriot of all of them, one Josef Stalin. To be sure “religion is an opium for the people’ but not the international faith which Moscow the “Third Rome” offers to the world. So we behold a new religion demanding and bent on enforcing the unquestioning allegiance of the whole world. A new religion in which the madness af Rasputin and the craftiness of Stalin kiss each other. It has for its altar Lenin’s enshrined tomb, upon which the blood of untold millions is being offered up as a red sacrifice; and for its Holy of Holies points to the Comintern. It has a gospel which preaches the endless variations of a cynical sophistry backed up by fear and terror. It has a high hierarchy, the distinguishing marks of is acolytes being spiritual insensibility, mental perverseness, moral depravity, and murder in their eyes. The concept that we are engaged in an ideological warfare is fundamentally wrong and perilously misleading. As long as we do not divest ourselves of this fallacious view, we make ourselves victims of a hopeless mental confusion, waste our well-meant efforts in fighting phantoms, and invite inevitable defeat. The Threat of Mongolian Barbarism What we are facing today is not an ideogical threat, but the threat of a revived aggressively militant Mongolian Barbarism which, having waxed strong on western failures, feels that its hour has struck, and the world is ready to bend its neck to the yoke of its godless world-domination. As the flood of studied provations let loose on this country clearly indicates, having gotten “a host of other beasts into her menegerie,” Red Russia feels strong enough to tackle her formidable foe, the eagle of America. Through singer Paul Robeson she lets us know that the “liberation” of the American Negroes is at hand, and, in case of a new war, fourteen millions of American Negroes, instead of fighting for American imperialism, will solidly line up with Josef Stalin. For another straw in the wind, a recently published bulletin of the Congressional Committee on Un-American Activities furnishes valuable data in another direction when it informs the American public that:
