Lanterna Rally

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Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07-13

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 9781331303534

Excerpt from Report on the American Slav Congress and Associated Organizations: June 26, 1949 The American Slav Congress is a Moscow-inspired and directed federation of Communist-dominated organizations seeking by methods of propaganda and pressure to subvert the 10,000,000 people in this country of Slavic birth or descent. By means of a nationalist appeal it strives to enlist our Slavic population in behalf of Russia's ambitious designs for world empire and simultaneously to incite American Slavs against the land of their adoption. It will be remembered that prior to and during World War II, Adolph Hitler and his agents flooded German-American communities with Pan-German propaganda emanating from Stuttgart and distributed through the German-American Bund and allied organizations. The American Slav Congress in its appeal to Pan-Slavism is a revival of the same technique on a far more dangerous scale, the extent and significance of which few Americans realize. It is an important weapon of Moscow's political warfare against the United States. Although its promoters claim that the American Slav Congress was organized to "promote the cultural activity of the American Slavs," the real objectives of the American Slav Congress have been primarily military. The announced purpose of the first American Slav Congress in 1942 was to mobilize the Slav workers in the basic industries behind the war effort after Hitler attacked the Soviet Union. The guiding star of this movement, which is world-wide in its scope, is Russian Lt. Gen. Alexander Gundorov, chairman of the All-Slav Committee with headquarters in Moscow. In the first issue of the Slavic American for the fall of 1947, this official organ of the American Slav Congress clearly pinpointed its target. On a map of the United States, in this expensively lithographed magazine, we find designated the chief industrial centers where the following Slavic groups are employed: Russian, Byelorussian, Ukrainian, Carpatho-Russian, Polish, Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian, Macedonian, Czech, Slovak, and Bulgarian. The map calls attention to the fact that 10,000,000 "Americans of Slavic descent" are employed "in mines, steel mills, automobile and airplane factories, rubber plants, sugar refineries, cotton mills, iron works, quarries, furniture factories, lumber mills, and farms." The American Slav Congress claims that 51 percent of the workers in the coal and steel industries are of Slavic extraction. Specific attention is directed toward such large industrial centers as Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, and New York. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.