The Source: G. F. Alexan, "Wer bedroht wen?", USA in Wort und Bild, #15/1951, pp. 3-6. (This is written after the Berlin air lift and after the USSR develops atomic weapons – you are just trying to get a feel for the Soviet perspective from it)

Who is Threatening Whom?

by G. F. Alexan

The Soviet government has revealed clearly what was going on: a dishonest policy of bluffing, threats, blackmail and the use of the raw power of U.S. imperialism. The Soviet note mentioned the most important actions of the aggressive U.S. policy, the remilitarization of Germany and Japan, and particularly criticized "the establishment of numerous American bases around the Soviet Union."

The American warmongers by the way hardly conceal their criminal encirclement policies. There are bases for the newest American bombers in Greenland and Iceland, Canada and New Zealand, the West Indies, the Bahamas and Jamaica. Churchill is a sworn enemy of the Soviet Union and one of the main warmongers. His speech to the English House of Commons on 19 April 1951 showed how far along the aggressive plans of Anglo-American imperialism have come:

"The powerful fleet of American aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean along with bases in France, England and Greece make it possible to make concentrated atomic attacks on the critical areas of the Soviet Union, particularly the oil fields in Baku."

Naturally, the network of American war bases in Western Europe is particularly dense. The "Daily Mirror," published by the rabidly anti-Soviet Hearst, wrote on 18 May 1950:

American atom bombs can strike a devastating blow to the heart of the Soviet Union from bases in Western Europe and the Middle East.

West Germany has a central role in this conspiracy against peace. Its territory is used as a gathering area for troops, and its youth is to be used as cannon fodder, as Adenauer's secret negotiations with the three Allied high commissioners prove. This is also proven by the numerous reports in the West German press about areas and villages whose inhabitants are being driven away and whose fields are being transformed into huge air bases and military training grounds. Similar reports come from the French and Italian press and from those in all other Marshallized nations. The cynical openness with which the Wall Street Imperialists are conducting their anti-Soviet policies is shown by an article provocatively titled "The Ring Around the Soviet Union Closes." It was published on 23 July 1951 in "Time," a weekly controlled by the Morgan banking house: "The Armaments Committee has approved the sum of more than a billion dollars for building new secret bases, mostly within striking range of the Soviet Union."

The U.S. General Staff is also using the most brutal means to establish bases in the Far East. "We control the entire enormous expanse of the Pacific Ocean from the Aleutians to the Marianna Islands. From these chains of islands, we control all the Asian harbors," MacArthur told Congress. That sounds a bit excessive from the mouth of a general chased out by the heroic Korean people's army, despite the technical superiority of his troops. Still, such boasting is characteristic also for his supreme commander. Truman, who a Congressman recently called a mixture of bluff, incompetence and hysteria, is putting more emphasis than ever on his "base strategy." Like his "total atomic diplomacy," this too will prove a big illusion. In the September issue of the leading technical journal "American Engineer," the well-known military writer Major de Seversky gives a devastating criticism of his policy:

It is really not a strategy at all. Truman takes on everything that occurs to him. He has the typical megalomania: the biggest army, the biggest fleet, the biggest air force, and so on. Truman's policy is that of a junk dealer. American foreign policy is characterized by a colossal dilettantism that will fail miserably.

There is no doubt that should the big-mouthed gunfighters and air pirates carry out their suicidal threats of aggression against the Soviet Union, they will meet the same fate as Hitler and his generals.