April 1969 Antisemitism Emanuel Litvinov London Bulletin No 9

The use of antisemitism in the Czechoslovak affair

Emanuel Litvinov

A DOSSIER

The following are summaries and excerpts from Soviet and Polish newspapers and periodicals and passages from articles published in the world press (both communist and other) showing the use that has been made of antisemitism in the attempts of the Soviet bloc countries to justify their policy in connection with Czechoslovakia.

1. FROM THE SOVIET PRESS

Literaturnaya Gazeta, May 22, 1968 (Moscow, weekly, in Russian):-
    "AM I PAINTING THE DEVIL", by Ladislav Novomeysky, is one of the first hints that Zionists are active in Czechoslovakia. The article in question is a reprint from the Bratislava paper, Pravda, of a speech made by Novomeysky at a meeting of Slovak writers. In this speech Novomeysky attacked Arnosht Lustig for a television talk the latter had made appealing for an understanding of the Israeli side in the Israel-Arab conflict. Novomeysky said:
    "... I listened with interest to a television talk with Comrade Arnosht Lustig. His speech was fiery, but so pro-Israeli and pro-Zionist, that I became envious of the 'Czech part' of our Writers' Union: it has not only Arnosht Lustig, but an entire pleiad of approved experts on the Israeli question. ... He appealed for an 'understanding' and 'solidarity towards Israel'. ... In the subconsciousness of the Israelis is very deeply rooted a figure—six million of those who perished during the war. ...
    "There is also another side: in the most horrible World War there perished not only the six million of our Jewish brothers, friends, comrades and relatives, but also another 45-50 million of representatives of other peoples. ... We shall stand on there never being wars—there should never be wars in the name of these fifty million victims, and we shall not permit the launching of one even in the name of the six million dead! ..."

Neva No. 7 July, 1968 (Moscow, monthly, in Russian)
    "ISRAEL'S TOTAL ESPIONAGE", by V. Chernyavsky, is a lengthy article describing Israel's use of Zionist propaganda as a tool for recruiting agents in all countries of the world and for conducting anti-communist propaganda. Chernyavsky writes:
    "... The forcing on people of brochures propagating the ideas of Zionism and the spreading of all kinds of slanderous rumours blackening socialism, was almost the basic occupation of the personnel of the Israeli Embassy in Moscow. The Embassy was helped by Israeli tourists, businessmen, scientists, and journalists who came to our country. The same picture could be seen in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Rumania and in other socialist States. ..."

Komsomolskaya Pravda, July 14, 1968 (Moscow, daily, in Russian)
    "MASK, WE KNOW YOU!", by V. Bolshakov, is an article justifying the non-admission of Israeli youth organisations (except that of Rakakh) to the Youth Festival in Sofia. Among other things, Bolshakov says:
    "... Zionist propaganda, trying to mislead public opinion, deliberately equates every action against Zionism with antisemitism, brazenly speculating on the memory of the Jews—the victims of Nazism. It is unfortunate that some youth publications in Czechoslovakia have taken the bait of this propaganda and are now appearing in the doubtful role of advocates for the Israeli Zionist youth organisations. ..."

Izvestia, August 23, 1968 (Moscow, daily, in Russian)
    "HOW THE COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY UNDERGROUND WAS FORMED IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA", by V. Rudnev, is a description of how the Czechoslovak " counter-revolutionary " underground was organised, referring to various illegal societies and clubs, particularly the " Club-231 " and the " Club of Non-Party Activists" founded in Czechoslovakia during the liberalisation period. Ivzestia says:
        "... The greatest activity among all such clubs had been unfolded by 'Club-231', which had acquired its name from the statute of the Constitutional law on the defence of the Republic, on the basis of which, after the rout of the reactionary forces in February 1948 in Socialist Czechoslovakia, its enemies had been punished for anti-State and counter-revolutionary activity. In the process of implementing this law, it is known that abuses had been committed by individual workers. However, the correction of these abuses does not remove the revolutionary essence of the law and does not permit the exploiting of the fact of the rehabilitation of honest persons by all sorts of adventurers and counter-revolutionaries in their own interests. ...
    " The frankly counter-revolutionary organisation, 'Club-231', was headed by such people as the old fascist Brodsky (Brodsky is a common Jewish name in Eastern Europe—ed.). ... It is worthwhile to listen to the statements of the rabid fascist Brodsky, who, by the way, had obtained the post of the Secretary-General of 'Club-231'. At one of the meetings, seething with malice and hatred towards communists, he said: ' We shall tear off the communists' legs '... .
    "... The 'Club of Non-Party Activists' did not lag behind in its hostile anti-communist and anti-Soviet activities. At the head of this club stands I. Svitak, an official of the Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences and one of the most rabid reactionaries and a violent enemy of socialism. He had been expelled from the ranks of the communist party in Czechoslovakia, but lately, he has been regarded as a ' victim of defamations'. His assistants were Rybacek, Musil and Klementiev—agents of the international Zionist organisation, the JOINT. ..."
    It is noteworthy that the above article has been printed as a leaflet (without either the name of the author or the mention that it had been published in Izvestia) and, a few days after the invasion of Czechoslovakia, distributed to Soviet soldiers in Czechoslovakia. At the top of the leaflet it is printed: "Read and pass it on to your comrade".

Pravda Ukrainy, August 28, 1968 (Kiev, daily, in Russian)
    "THE VOICE OF THE WRITERS OF KIEV" is the report of a meeting of writers of Kiev devoted to the events in Czechoslovakia, which took place on August 27. The report states among other things:
    "Yesterday there took place a meeting of the writers of the capital of the Ukraine, devoted to the events in Czechoslovakia. It was opened by the Secretary of the Party Committee of the Writers' Union of the Ukraine, V. Kozachenko, who branded with shame the enemies of Socialist Czechoslovakia. He spoke with anger about the so-called writers, Goldstuecker, Prohazka, Vatsulik and others, who have reached the point that in essence they have become the assistants of world imperialism and of militant Zionism. ..."

Rabochaya Gazeta, August 29, 1968 (Kiev, daily, in Russian)
    "THE 'CLUB' OF THE ENEMIES OF FREEDOM", by Anatoly Chubukov (A.P.N.), is an article exposing the members of the "Club-231" as rabid anti-communist reactionaries and fascists. Chubukov mentions the Czechoslovak Jewish writer, Goldstueker, as a supporter of this anti-socialist organisation:
    "... The Chairman of the Czechoslovak Writers' Union, Goldstueker, had stated that he 'respects the members of "Club-231", because 'after the sufferings they had gone through' they allegedly became 'purified and wiser'. Goldstuecker had even boasted that he considered such persons 'his friends and wants to co-operate with them'. This is probably the reason why the Secretary-General of 'Club-231', Brodsky, had asserted that 'journalists and writers are with us' ..."

Izvestia, September 4, 1968 (Moscow, daily, in Russian)
    "JIRI HAJEK SCURRIES AROUND THE WORLD", by V. Korzhev, is an article depicting Hajek as a counter-revolutionary, working for the separation of Czechoslovakia from the countries of the Socialist camp and, of course, as being a friend of Israel. Korzhev also hints that Jiri Hajek is a Jew, by saying that Hajek's former name had been Karpeles, a common Jewish name in Czechoslovakia. Korzhev writes:
    "... Another secret desire of Hajek's was the restoration-of diplomatic relations with Israel, contrary to the policy of the countries of the Socialist camp. ... It is no wonder that the Israeli press began to shower praise of every sort on Hajek. ...
    "They say that during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, J. Hajek, in order to save his skin, wrote obsequious letters to the Gestapo. And it was the Gestapo that saved the life of J. Hajek, who had to ' work ' hard for the Nazis. Perhaps this is the reason he had changed his name some time ago from Karpeles to Hajek. ..."

Mezhdunarodnaya Zhizn No. 10, October, 1968 (Moscow, monthly, in Russian)
    "LESSONS FROM THE EVENTS, NECESSARY FOR THE FUTURE", by K. Ivanov, is a lengthy article, comprehensively analysing the events in connection with the Czechoslovak crisis and explaining the necessity of the military move. The role of Zionism in inciting a part of the population both in Poland and in Czechoslovakia was given as follows:
    "... When in the spring of this year in Poland the anti-socialist forces came to the surface, including the right-wing bourgeois Zionist trends, the leadership of the Polish United Workers' Party turned to the leading force of the socialist society, the working class. The Central Committee of the Party appealed first of all to the workers' collectives of the largest enterprises—and the political stability of the country was ensured. ...
    " In the course of events in Czechoslovakia there came to the surface the defeated in the world communist movement, Trotskyites, right-wing opportunist trends, Zionists, anarcho-syndicalists, ' national communists ' and anti-Soviets. This demonstrates once more that when one ceases fighting such anti-Leninist trends, even if defeated in the past, they are capable of bringing quite a lot of harm to the fighting working class. ..."

Ogonek No. 42, October, 1968 (Moscow, weekly in Russian)
    "ACCOUNT–450055 ", by Yuri Segeyev, is an article on Israeli militarism in general and on its close alliance with imperialism, in particular. Sergeyev dwells on the Israeli Zionists' role in the counter-revolutionary movement in Czechoslovakia. He writes:
    "... Having turned their State machine into a 'bureau of good services' to imperialism, the Israeli ruling circles, in full sight of world public opinion, are pushing their country and their people nearer and nearer to catastrophe and are drawing Israel into new adventures. Let us illustrate this. A brief item in the Israeli paper, Ma'ariv, is only one of the numerous proofs of the growing adventurism of the Israeli Zionists and of their close alliance with the arch-reactionary forces: ' Yesterday the co-ordination center sent a group of youth living in Israel—representatives of the intelligentsia—into various countries of Europe. These young people have it as their task to establish contacts with Czechoslovak citizens outside Czechoslovakia. They must also look for the possibility of establishing contacts with various (read: counter-revolutionary—Yu.S.) circles in Czechoslovakia itself. Part of this group must go to Prague. The co-ordination center in Israel, says the Ma'ariv, is turning into a world center of fighters for freedom (read: enslavement—Yu.S.) of Czechoslovakia. ... Those who have material difficulties and do not have sufficient funds for active work in Czechoslovakia and outside it, receive financial aid.
    "'The co-ordination center has prepared a program for the organisation of the publication Literarny Listy, which was the voice of democracy (read: counter-revolution—Yu.S.) in Czechoslovakia. Contributions for this purpose may be addressed to: Bank Discount, account no. 450055, Tel Aviv.'
    "... The Zionist 'Bureau of Good Services' to Imperialism is publicly signing its open, widely carried out subversive activity against the countries of socialism—and this is not for the first time! ..."

Literaturnaya Gazeta, October 2, 1968 (Moscow, weekly, in Russian)
    "EDUARD GOLDSTUECKER—THE MANY-FACED 'LIBERAL'", by A. Gromov, is an article attacking Goldstuecker as an opportunist and stressing his connections with Zionism and with Israel. Gromov also mentions the anonymous anti-Semitic letter received by Goldstuecker and published in the Literarny Listy together with his reply, and insinuates that the whole affair was a fabrication made up by Goldstuecker in order to discredit communism. The following passages are noteworthy:
    "... And so, at first a Zionist, then a member of the Communist Party. ... Afterwards, a ' witness for the prosecution', and ' exposer of Zionism', who supported the groundless charges against concrete persons. And finally—almost the ' father of Czechoslovak liberalism '. . . .
    "And it is quite natural that in the escalation of the 'crawling counter-revolution' in Czechoslovakia, he has played quite an important role. ...
    " But perhaps the most characteristic of the methods and of the moral image of Goldstuecker was his publication, at the end of June, of an article entitled: 'Citizens, attention!' This was, so to say, Goldstuecker's action programme.
    At the end of June the situation in Czechoslovakia was already tense enough due to the inciting appearances of the counter-revolutionaries, who had seized into their hands all the means of mass information. It was necessary to prepare the final blow, it was necessary to discredit the communists and the communist party in general. And so, Goldstuecker published his sort of commentaries to an anonymous letter, allegedly received by him.
    He takes this anonymous letter, full of fascist calls and black-hundred insults, publishes it, in his commentaries, presents it as an expression of opinion of all those communists who, by that time, began to be called in Czechoslovakia and in the West "conservatives", to distinguish them from the " liberals", among whom, of course was Goldstuecker himself. Why was this done? The aim is clear: to discredit the communist party by presenting the opinions of the ' anonymous writer' as the ideology of communists..."

Komsomohkaya Pravda, October 9, 1968 (Moscow, daily, in Russian)
    "THE FALSE IDOL", by A. Krushinsky, is an article attacking the Czechoslovak writer, Ladislav Mniacko, labelling him as a traitor and an opportunist whom anti-socialist elements had tried to set up as an idol. The following passage mentions his connection with Zionism:
    "... And so Mniacko announced that he wanted to remain in the free world exclusively for ideological reasons. Which ones in particular? Well, if only out of protest against the injustice of the Czechoslovak Government towards Israel. 'This too came from a mercantile calculation', his former friend told me. In the Western countries there are many Zionist publishing houses. In Mniacko's opinion, after such a statement, each one of them should be ready to publish his books . ..."

Pravda, November 3, 1968 (Moscow, daily, in Russian)
    "THE INTRIGUES OF THE REACTIONARY EMIGRANTS" (Tass from London) is an attack on a number of intellectuals who had left Czechoslovakia after the invasion. Most of the persons attacked are known to be Jewish (such as Goldstuecker, Ota Sik and Winter), or have Jewish-sounding names (such as Brodsky). In the case of Josef Josten, a former official at the Czech Foreign Ministry who left the country as far back as 1948 and with whom the present emigrants are supposed to be involved, the antisemitic technique of using former names has been employed. Josten's name is followed by the name Shtern in brackets, a name that is obviously Jewish. The following passages are of interest:
    "The Czechoslovak reactionaries who have found shelter in the West after the failure of the plans of the counter-revolution in Czechoslovakia, continue their activities aimed at impeding further normalisation of the situation in Czechoslovakia. Thus, the leader of now-banned in Czechoslovakia, 'Club-231', Brodsky ... is now travelling over the countries of Western Europe and is preparing the creation of an emigrant 'Committee for Free Czechoslovakia'. Brodsky is assisted by Josef Josten (Shtern), a former official of the Foreign Ministry of bourgeois Czechoslovakia. J. Josten escaped from the country after February, 1948. Since then, he has settled in London and, obtaining financial aid from the enemies of Socialist Czechoslovakia, is one of the organisers of subversive activity against the C.S.S.R. It was precisely he who had been the initiator of the dissemination of the forged document called 'Manifesto of the Writers of Czechoslovakia', which was widely published by the bourgeois press long before the August events.
    In London are also the former official of the Prague radio and television, Winter, the former editor of the ' Literarny Listy', Liehm, the former chairman of the Central Committee of the Union of Czechoslovak writers. Goldstuecker ... all of them maintain contacts with the bourgeois Czechoslovak emigration and with the Western propaganda centres. The former deputy chairman of the Ministers' Council of the C.S.S.R., Ota Sik ... has settled in Switzerland ... The former deputy chief editor of ' Literarny Listy ', Vesely, has 'settled' in München.
    What is strange is that all of them, while engaged in hostile activity against their country, remain—at least formally—members of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, as if nothing had happened. Even such a person as Winter, who comes from a factory-owner's family, and who in one of his television transmissions from London has openly stated that 'he considers his entry into the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia as an error', in certain circles of Prague they still consider him as a member of the Czechoslovak Communist Party."

2. FROM THE POLISH PRESS

Zycie Warszawy, August 23, 1968 (Warsaw, daily, in Polish)
    "AGAINST THE PEACEFUL COUNTER-REVOLUTION" (AR) is a lengthy article justifying the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the claim that a counter-revolutionary movement was in process in that country. Zycie Warszawy writes:
    "... Under the same false pretext of 'renovation' or of 'searching for new ways of development"... there arose numerous groups and organisations that were clearly anti-communist ... They all worked in one and the same direction: against the workers' party and for ' absolute freedom' in socialism. What this direction and this 'freedom' were could easily be proved by the declaration of the notorious and the clearly counter-revolutionary 'Club of Non-Party Activists'"... The same thing was proved by the statements of many counter-revolutionary writers, such as Goldstuecker or Kohut, or the notorious adorer of the Israeli fascists and Zionists, Mniacko, who at meetings in factories, in Palaces of Culture, at temples and at gatherings disseminated condemnation of the Party activists and who even dictated—in the atmosphere of the unrestrained anti-communism, the personnel composition of entire Communist institutions and organs of Government ..."

Zycie Warszawy, August 24, 1968 (Warsaw, daily, in Polish)
    "Izvestia 'ABOUT THE COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY UNDERGROUND IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA"—is a P.A.P. report about the article "HOW THE COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY UNDERGROUND WAS FORMED IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA", by V. Rudnev, published in Izvestia of August 23, 1968 (and reported in the section " From the Soviet Press "—(ed.), in which Rudnev accused the J.O.I.N.T. of taking part in anti-communist and anti-Soviet activities in Czechoslovakia. The Warsaw paper gives lengthy quotations from Rudnev's article and says that this article gives a comprehensive answer to the following questions:
    " What are the most unrestrained elements of the political opposition which had intended to bring the restoration of the capitalist regime in Czechoslovakia? Who, up to this day, organises hostile attacks against the healthy forces in the C.S.S.R. and fabricates slander in connection with the arrival of the allied armies to help them?—Answers to these questions are given by Izvestia of August 23, in V. Rudnev's article, written from Prague ..."

Trybuna Ludu, August 25, 1968 (Warsaw, daily, in Polish)
    "OUR COMMON AFFAIR", by Brig.-General Jan Czapla (Deputy Head of the Political Administration in the Polish Ministry of Defence)—is an article claiming that Czechoslovakia was supposed to have been in danger of falling victim to a Zionist conspiracy, just as Poland almost did last March, had it not been for the vigilance with which the Poles purged the Zionists from their midst. Czapla writes:
    "... It may be stated with all certainty that the processes in Czechoslovakia since the January Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party irrefutably indicate the existence of a revisionist-nationalistic organised anti-socialist activity with the participation of Zionist forces ...
    The events in Czechoslovakia must suggest to a keen observer certain similarities between the retro.grade forces in the C.S.S.R. and the inspirers of the 'March events' in our country ...
    A common trait of these anti-socialist forces was also this same extraordinary vigorous combination of revisionism and Zionism. These elements, by forming an international bridgehead of imperialism, have done everything to exploit their extensive influences for anti-socialist infiltration. The slogan ' Improvement of Socialism ', has lately become the slogan of the revisionist-nationalist forces. This slogan has been displayed in Prague in the- same way as in Warsaw in March.
    One might speak—passing on to the differences—about a certain inversion of the situation, which means that with us the March events were nothing but a repetition of an attack by revisionist and Zionist forces after 1956. Finally, the difference is also and probably above all in that we managed effectively to cut short these adventurist aspirations of the forces menacing us, whereas in Czechoslovakia they have developed to such a point as to menace directly and effectively the foundations of socialism and strike directly at communists ..."

Trybuna Ludu, September 2, 1968 (Warsaw, daily, in Polish)
    "ABOUT POSITIVE EFFORTS AND ABOUT THOSE FOR WHOM THE TIME FOR COMING TO THEIR SENSES HAS NOT YET ARRIVED", by Czeslaw Berenda, is an article on the events in Czechoslovakia and on the role played by Zionism in the counter-revolutionary movement there. The author also warns that the reactionary forces in Czechoslovakia haven't yet given up their fight and calls for an analysis of the mistakes that had made it possible for anti-socialist Zionist forces to develop freely. The following pages are noteworthy:
    "... No attempt is made to draw a balance sheet objectively and factually for this country, to include, beside positive assessments of the development, also mistakes which have negatively influenced the course of the democratisation process and which have created a fertile soil for the consolidation of anti-socialist, revisionist and—let us say frankly—Zionist forces. Not much has been said about them in this country, in view of the unpleasant experiences of the Stalinist era in Czechoslovakia which also affected Czechoslovak citizens of Jewish origin. I was often told so during general conversations.
    But this cannot in any way dim the picture of reality—that precisely the Zionist forces in Czechoslovakia have most ardently and most passionately come out during the March events with attacks against our country. The eminently pro-Israel writer Arnost Lustig has been recognised even by his compatriot, the noted Slovak writer Laco Novomeysky, as an outstanding expert on Israel and its Zionist protectors. Or let us take Mniacko who, with his open flight to Israel and the slandering of the socialist countries wanted to compel his country's authorities to renew relations with the aggressor Israel. Or the Chairman of the Writers' Union, Goldstuecker and his ideological allies, like the philosopher Svitak, Prochazka, Kohout and a number of others linked with Zionism. Have they not and are they not still displaying a lively activity at meetings, in factories, palaces of culture, at public rallies, or in the quiet of radio and television studios—and this not only on Czechoslovak territory—inciting to a witch-hunt against Party officials, dictating in an intolerant and anti-communist atmosphere even the entire compositions of future Party and State authorities, outlining a vision of allegedly the only kind of socialism to which—as they proclaim—they wish to restore its human face. Today, by a strange coincidence, many of these people are not in Prague and they are not sharing the difficult and complicated and sometimes painful moments with the whole nation. On the contrary, we can see them in circles hostile to Poland and to Czechoslovakia in the West ..."

Trybuna Ludu, September 3. 1968 (Warsaw, daily, in Polish)
    "THE DISAPPOINTED HOPES OF THE ZIONISTS IN GREAT BRITAIN", is a P.A.P. item from London reporting that the Zionist press in Britain " reacted with real fury to the course of events in Czechoslovakia and to the fact that Svoboda and Dubcek want to implement the Moscow agreements ". The item states:
    "... The great hopes that Zionist organisations attached to the anti-socialist changes in Czechoslovakia are shown by the beginning of a special report of the London Institute for Jewish Affairs. The report begins with the statement: ' The events in Czechoslovakia over the last six months, which introduced a new era in that State and formed the promise of changes in its political, economic and social life as well as in its foreign policy, were the object of particular interest to Jews.' In this report much space is devoted to the criticism of 'Polish antisemitism on the part of the liberal forces of Czechoslovakia'..."
    The P.A.P. article ends: " All Zionist periodicals attacked the article by General Czapla in Trybuna Ludu as a manifestation of 'Polish antisemitism'. The Jewish Chronicle prominently displays a large advertisement calling for a boycott of Polish goods."

Trybuna Ludu, September 3, 1968 (Warsaw, daily, in Polish)
    "THE QUIET COUNTER-REVOLUTION IN PROGRESS", by Franciszek Lewicki—is a lengthy article on the counter-revolutionary movement in Czechoslovakia which necessitated the intervention of the other Socialist States. The author dwells particularly on the organisation and the openly anti-communist activities of "Club-231" and of the "Club on Non-Party Activists" and adds: "... Around the demands for the revision of Czechoslovakia's policy towards the Israeli aggressor, Zionist elements too have become active ..."

Trybuna Ludu, September 4, 1968 (Warsaw, daily, in Polish)
    "THE REACTION FRETS AND ADAPTS ITSELF"—by D.L. is an article claiming that the reactionary forces that have suffered a defeat in Czechoslovakia have now changed their tactics and are adapting themselves to the new political conditions in the country and are now conducting misleading propaganda concerning the true events in Czechoslovakia through the Western press and radio. He says:
    "... Over the waves of 'Free Europa' and other imperialist radio networks, speak the traitors to the Socialist Czechoslovakia, those who had managed to escape in time to Monaco, Vienna, Tel Aviv or London so as not to share with the people all the hardships that they themselves had brought upon Czechoslovakia. We are talking about the editors of the revisionist and anti-socialist weekly, Literarny Listy, about leading television workers and about various revisionist heralds such as Svitak, Pronchzka, Kahout, Liehm or Lustig, whose anti-socialist and Zionist connections are obvious ...
    The Chief Editor of Literarny Listy, Jungman, in an interview given to an Italian publication ... expressed regrets that the Czechs and the Slovaks did not allow themselves to be incited by such people as Jungman, Svitak and Goldstuecker ..."

Trybuna Ludu, September 5, 1968 (Warsaw, daily, in Polish)
    "THE MAIN DIRECTION OF THE ATTACK"—is an interview given by Janusz Golebiowski, Deputy Director of the Central Party School attached to the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers Party, to Zygmund Bielecki, a P.A.P. representative, on the subject of the main direction of the attack that is presently waged by imperialism against the Socialist countries in Europe. Golebiowski said:
    "... The new strategic plan of imperialism provides for the employment of various forms of subversion . . . The recent events in Poland, and particularly those in Czechoslovakia prove this . . . Lately, the Zionist movement, which as Wl. Gomulka said at the XII Plenum is an integral part of the anti-communist front, has with particular zeal joined the subversive campaign against the Socialist countries ..."

Trybuna Ludu, September 19, 1968 (Warsaw, daily, in Polish)
    "MASS INFORMATION MEDIA IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST IDEOLOGICAL DIVERSION"—by Stanislaw Mojkowski, is a lengthy analysis of the role played by the press, radio and television in the imperialist campaign against the Socialist countries, particularly in connection with the " peaceful counter-revolution " in Czechoslovakia. Mojkowski says:
    "... The press, the radio and the television abandoned the Party line, because during the entire course of events they remained in the hands of revisionists and right-wingers, and were inspired and directed by them . . .
    The revisionists and the chauvinists, the reactionaries and the Zionists were competing with one another in who would spit stronger and further and would more loudly defame the past and would blacken socialism to a greater degree. No hold was barred. All this was taking place under the standard of an alleged freedom of speech and of full democracy—but only for revisionism, reaction and attacks on the Party ..."

Trybuna Ludu, September 19, 1968 (Warsaw, daily, in Polish)
    "PURE UTOPIA"—by Daniel Lulinski, is an article on the situation in Czechoslovakia and on the reactionary forces that had tried and are still trying to undermine the Communist regime in that country. Among other things, Lulinski says:
    "... The entire Bonn Cabinet, with Chancellor Kiesinger at the head, became particularly active . . . The Chancellor and other Bonn envoys went these days to various West European countries, to the U.S.A., to Tel Aviv and to Western Asia, in order to incite there a new propaganda peak against the socialist countries ... At the head of the present anti-communist drive are also found paid agents, financed by the C.I.A. ... This company did not lack well-known revisionists, cosmopolite elements of Fatherlandlessness and Zionist elements. From Tel Aviv we heard as many as six former editors of the Prague revisionist periodical Literarny Listy—Chudzoziloz, Klimova, Pithart, Hartel, Holecek and Mueller—who call for a diplomatic, economic, cultural and boycott of the country ..."

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