😝 "The Labour party has agreed to turn Britain into an airbase for the United States" - Stalin, 1951

🇬🇧 73 years ago, the Labour Party was elected in Britain, with its foreign minister as Herbert Morrison, an anti-Soviet "war propagandist" claiming to be socialist - much like Mr Starmer today

A reply by Stalin (full article worth reading), published in Pravda in 1951, shows to a shocking degree: nothing has changed in Britain and global affairs in over 70 years

Stalin wrote:

"At first when the Labour party came into power one could presume that it would follow the path of socialism. However, later it turned out that the Labour government differs little from any other bourgeois government, aiming at maintaining the capitalist structure and providing the capitalists with considerable profits"

"In reality, the profits of the capitalists in Britain are growing from year to year but the wages for workers remain frozen. More so, the Labour government is defending this anti-worker, exploitative regime by all kinds of measures, persecuting and even arresting the workers. Can such a government be called socialist?"

🇫🇲 "If NATO is a defence pact, why did the British and Americans not agree to the proposal of the Soviet government to discuss this pact at the level of the council of ministers of foreign affairs? Is it not because the North-Atlantic treaty contains clauses about aggression against the USSR, and that the initiators of this pact are compelled to hide this from the society at large? Is it not because the Labour government has agreed to turn Britain into a military and air base for the United States of America to attack the Soviet Union?"

"Mobilization actually takes up too much from the government budget, and the Soviet people would willingly go in for the dismantling of its regular army, if there was no threat of war from outside. But the experience of 1918-20 has taught us otherwise: the British, Americans, French (together with the Japanese) attacked the Soviet Union and tried to take away Ukraine, the Caucasus, central Asia, the far east and the Arkhangelski region and tormented it for three years"

☀️👔 "It is not the Russians who have refused cooperation but the British and the Americans, as they knew that the Russians would not go on the path of restoring fascism in Germany, on transforming west Germany into a zone for aggression"

"As for cooperation for the economic restoration of Europe, then the USSR has not refused cooperation. On the contrary, it has itself suggested to implement a programme on the principles of the equality and sovereignty of European countries, without any diktats from outside, without the diktat of the United States of America"

🇻🇪"Using force is not a method followed by the communists. On the contrary, history shows that it is actually the enemies of communism and other foreign secret service agents who practise these coercive methods.

One need not go far for such examples. Recently, the prime minister of Iran was killed, so was the prime minister of Lebanon and the king of Trans-Jordan. All these killings have been carried out with the sole aim of forceful change of power in these countries 🇱🇧🇮🇷🇯🇴

Who killed these people? Was it the communists, the supporters of the Cominform? It is rather amusing to put forth such a question. Perhaps Mr Morrison, who is better informed, would help us to sort out this matter?"

"Let Mr Morrison show us even a single Soviet soldier who would direct his weapons against any peace-loving people. There is no such soldier. And let Mr Morrison explain convincingly why British soldiers are killing the peace-loving citizens of Korea. And why is a British soldier dying far from his country in an alien land? 🇵🇸

This is the reason why Soviet people consider that contemporary Anglo-American politics is instigating a new world war" 🇺🇦