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EW SEEM to realize it. But when
President Carter said recently
the situation with Russia is
more serious than at any time since
World War Il, he made the under–
statement of the century.
We are in fact, at the very brink of
NUCLEAR WORLD WAR 111!
lt
is not
going to happen- but Jet me tell you
the situation the U.S. government
has bungled its way into.
It is very evident that President
Carter has never UNDERSTOOD R us–
sian communist philosophy and basic
point of view. All their thinking is
from this viewpoint. lt's the place
where their "camera" is set. They do
not see things as we see them. They
do not think as we think.
Let me give you a brief summary.
1
have said before that more than 50
years ago, I studied thoroughly a
so-called "home study course" in
communist philosophy and thinking.
How could it have been available to
me and not to a man who rose to
become PRESIDENT?
lt
all began with two men, Karl
Marx and Friedrich Engels. They
were citizens of Germany. They,
even as 1 myself have, saw that this
world's governments and economic
systems were wrong. But they did not
really know Goo-they hatched an
atheistic society- and they did not
have UNDERSTANDING, as God has
given me, of the BIBLE!
Their "camera" was set to view
the world as MAN views it. They could
discern much that was WRONG. But
their "camera" was not focused on
Goo, and they did not see Goo's
answers to this world's evils.
So, as usually happens in human
thinking shut off from God, they had
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Herbert W. Armstrong
a warped view. They envisioned a
world of communism. They saw that
the world's religions were the "opium
of the people," so their minds saw no
farther than to ABOLISH religion–
not to seek 1 the TRUE God and His
teaching.
Then carne along Vladimir Lenin,
a Russian citízen, who had studied
and accepted enthusiastically and
even fanatically the atheistic ideas of
Marx and Engels. Lenin turned those
theoretical philosophies into a work–
able NEW form of GOVERNMENT,
elíminating ownership of prívate
property-all of whích would be
owned by the State (the Politburo
group at the helm)- and eliminating
religion. To accomplish such sweep–
ing changes necessitated a CAMPAIGN
OF PUBLIC EDUCATION, a most essen–
tíaJ factor. The PEOPLE had to be
induced by education to give up their
property and their religion- the two
things closest to theír hearts.
Vladimir Lenin must be accounted
to have possessed the qualities of
GREATNESS (not holiness, which he
abhorred) or RIGHTNESS!
lt
was dur–
ing World War
1,
in 1917, that Lenin
Ied his band of fanatically dedicated
men, including, originally, Joseph
Stalin and Leon Trotsky. The Jatter
defected to South America.
lt
all started ·with an inner core,
the original founders of the Commu–
nist Party.
Lenin's idea was not to conquer
the minds-that is, the pocketbooks
and the hearts-of the Russian
people alone, but those of the WHOLE
WORLD.
As Jesus Christ is to rule the WHOLE
WORLD at His now soon coming, Satan
moved men ofthe human GREATNESS of
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men like Marx and Lenin to attempt to
beat Christ to it!
Therefore, the Communist PARTY
was formed, not merely as
the one
política! party to be allowed in Rus–
sia- but an INTERNATIONAL PARTY
active in all nations!
Before World War 11 the Commu–
nist Party in the United States was
making great headway. They began
infiltrating the colleges and universi–
ties. If they could not "convert"
professors, they worked on students
who would become teachers later.
Thus they were recruiting TEACHERS
to teach their doctrine all over the
United States.
And don't think they were over–
looking Britain, France, ltaly, Spain
and Portugal, and Germany where
the idea was first hatched. They also
sowed the seeds in China, and left it
for the Chinese Communists, like
Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong) and
present Vice Chairman Tan Zhen–
lin, to organize a Chinese Commu–
nist Party and put the second of the
three Iargest nations on earth under
communism.
However, the Chinese communism
is different, and Vice Chairman Tan
told me it is the Russiaos who have
departed from the original, pure
commuoism. But you will see a very
large statue of Lenin, along with the
late Mao, in Peking (Beijing). Com–
munism has also made big inroads in
Southeast Asia. Tbey almost took
over both Singapore and Indonesia
(fifth most populous nation), whicb
just barely escaped communism only
a few years ago.
The GOAL is to bring the WHOLE
WORLD under communism. The Rus–
sians admit conditions in their country
The PLAIN TRUTH