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1. Basically, we can use the anti-Bolshevist magazine material that we used up until 1939, contrasting the Soviet system with the new Germany and its people’s community and social institutions.

2. Great emphasis should be placed on catastrophic activity of the Jews, who as the creators and leaders of Bolshevism bear the greatest guilt. Draw parallels to the Jews in today’s democracies.

3. Magazines should also emphasize the fact that the Soviet leadership — aside from their criminal political nature — lacked the strength and ability to build this rich land. They had more than two decades to put their coffee house theories into practice. They failed miserably. Such rulers have lost any right to govern their country.

4. There are many ethnic Germans living in the former Soviet Union. Until further notice, they are not to be mentioned at all.

5. It should be noted that not only Russians, but also many other peoples live in the former Soviet Union. This is to be noted scrupulously. Speak of Ukrainians, not Little Russians, of White Ruthenians, not White Russians. Only people of the former so-called Greater Russia are to be called Russians. Most members of the non-Russian peoples are hoping we will give them national independence. However, magazines may not discuss in any way such a dismemberment of Russia and the independence of the individual peoples. Prophecies about the future form of the former Soviet Union must be avoided. Instead, use the phrase that the Germans want to free all those living under Bolshevist oppression.

6. We also reject the czarist system that proceeded Bolshevism. It was a reactionary, plutocratic régime. We must absolutely avoid the impression that we want to bring back the czarist era.

7. The Germans are coming not to destroy socialism, but rather to establish social justice. Soviet propaganda deceived the oppressed peoples by claiming that socialism prevailed in the Soviet state. In truth the crassest social injustice prevails there. In contrast to countries like England and America where high capitalism exploits people, the highest form of capitalism prevails in the Soviet Union. The worker is not subordinate to individual big companies, but rather to a single huge concern, the Bolshevist state, which has made him into a slave, a serf.
   Bolshevism lied when it told people that it had abolished classes. In reality, the Soviet Union is the worst class state in the world with two sharply separate classes: the beneficiaries of the Bolshevist system (communist party bigwigs and the Jewish leadership) and all the other people, who lack all rights and are oppressed in unimaginable ways.
   The Germans will put an end to Bolshevist slavery of workers, farmers, and all other working people. Just as the Germans have gotten rid of exploiters in their own country, they will be sure that social justice prevails in the former Soviet Union. Germany is a socialist and anti-capitalist state.

8. The German soldier comes not as an enemy, but rather a friend of people oppressed by Bolshevism and as their liberator from the Jewish-Bolshevist yoke.

Appropriate themes are as follows. Material and documents can be requested immediately.

a) Living standard of the population (food, clothing, housing, heading, lighting) in comparison to other countries, particularly Germany.

b) The situation of workers (exploitation, lack of any rights, miserable social institutions, low pay, piecework system [Stakhanov]). Germany, in contrast, has practical socialism, including trustees of labor, NSV, KdF, many other social institutions.

c) The condition of women and children (divorce, poverty and desertion of children). Compare to German conditions, above all institutions such as Mother and Child, care for mothers and expectant mothers in factories.

d) The condition of farmers. Countless farmers have been driven from the fields to forced labor in the frigid north, where they suffer miserable death.

e) Opposition to and bloody persecution of religion as well as any form of belief in G-d. Examples from past years of Bolshevist rule.

f) The duplicity of Bolshevist doctrine in contrast to the fact that the Führer keeps his promises.

g) Bolshevist terror, which is directed not only against non-Bolshevists, but against its own friends and comrades (e.g., the murder of Tukhatchevsky and the old Bolshevists). Above all those who with pure heart, even if in error, strive for real socialism.

For newspapers with significant foreign readership:

It is important to establish Bolshevism as a cause of fear in other countries, and it will be useful in all European and non-European countries to build anti-Soviet attitudes by showing that the Führer’s battle against Bolshevism is the prerequisite for a united new Europe.

Obviously one may not disregard the fact that the destruction of the Soviets is a phase in the German–English war, a phase that must be related to treasonous and unscrupulous English policies.

Additionally, there are themes about Bolshevism as a world threat, or the protection of European culture by the German military, since Churchill has given up even this presumed English claim by allying himself with the Soviets.

(Emphasis added in some cases.)

Apart from the blatant ultranationalism, many of the points raised in these secret guidelines are the same bland and poorly informed criticisms of the Soviet Union that we have all heard over and over again from contemporary anti-Bolshevists (including ‘left-leaning’ ones).

Now, merely showing contemporary anti-Bolshevists how their criticisms echo Fascist ones is unlikely to make them pause for a moment’s introspection; irresponsible though it may be, they can trivialize the similarities as nothing more than unfortunate coincidences and then conveniently forget about them as if nothing just happened. More useful is how these guidelines tell us that 1. the generic criticisms of the Soviet Union are nothing new, and 2. not only ordinary anticommunists but the upper classes as well find these criticisms useful for their propaganda.

If you already read authors like Albert Szymański or Michael Parenti, then I should not have to explain to you why these are not good criticisms of the Soviet Union; this is not a subcommunity for learning about the people’s republics. That being said, as long as you follow the facile principle that the Axis was worse than the U.S.S.R., there should be little to nothing that you’ll find objectionable in this subcommunity either.

However, what does tend to get on our nerves are the types who carelessly disparage us as ‘red fash’ when their own knowledge of Fascism is very shallow and insubstantial. These are the same types who are most likely blissfully unaware that they are only repeating the same dull, clueless criticisms that the Fascists were hurling at the Soviets nearly one century ago, usually without anything new to add. So if you were unaware of these precedents until now but still believe that you could ‘properly educate’ us on what the Soviet Union was really like, it’s probably best not to bother.