ARTICLE IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS BY NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV

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• Publication Date: April 14, 1959
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Senior Research Staff on International Communism
Article in Foreign Affairs by Nikita Khrushchev
Pressure of time only permits a brief and hasty footnote:
A point about the seemingly conflicting statements by the
Communist leaders on the inevitability of war and Khrushchevis
present stress on peaceful coexistence which seems to deserve
greater emphasis is the fact that there is actually nothing contra-
dictory or new in these statements.
Marx and Lenin are on record as having declared wars
between capitalist states inevitable, but as for wars or clashes
between the capitalist and the Communist systems, what the Com-
munist leaders always had in mind was the inevitability of war as
the result of armed attacks by the capitalist states. On the one
hand, they could not believe that the capitalist states would remain
with arms folded while Communist states were developing their
power and their concomitant resources for internal subversion,
and on the other hand, they would obviously not publicly announce
warlike intentions, even if they had them. On the contrary, would-
be aggressors have always been most vehement in their professions
of pacificism.
When, therefore, Kh.rushchev says that wars are no longer
inevitable, all he means is that the Communist camp is now so
powerful that the capitalists will no longer dare attack it, even if
nuclear weapons are outlawed de jure or de facto. It follows that
the "aggressive" capitalists, monopolists, and imperialists should
give up their vain dreams of crushing the Communist camp and
implicitly Communism by force, and reconcile themselves to the
necessity of peaceful coexistence, which means disarmament,
abandonment of military bases, and recognition of the status uo
in Eastern and Central Europe. Communism, now as always, will
rely an its intrinsic superiority - economic and moral - to triumph
in the rest of the world, even violent revolution, as distinct from
"parliamentary revolution" being soft-pedalled if not formally
disavowed.
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To sum up: The Soviet state has never threatened war,
for obvious reasons, and cannot renounce something it has never
announced. True, when attacked, it argues that all its armed
forces did was to create "favorable conditions" for Communist
takeovers in the countries they occupied. The Communist Inter-
national (or the CPSU), for equally obvious reasons, has not and
cannot threaten with war. There is, therefore, nothing new in
tlpeaceful coexistence. 1' Superficially, it merely means an invita-
tion to the West to return to a peace footing, and fundamentally it
does not guarantee peace any more than countless similar solemn
declarations to renounce war have in the past.
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