Why My Heart Cries For You, My Soviet Friends!

Dear friends, comrades, and so many acquaintances:

I agonized whether to write this open letter to you dear friends, after all, many of our members of the Canada-USSR Association and now the Canadian Friends of Soviet People have known you comrades, have met you here in Canada and also in former USSR many times over the years since the very first delegation went to visit the Soviet Union way back in 1963.

Oh how excited we were, how proud we were, how dedicated we were (and we are even more so today) and how we hoped that after the devastation of the Great Patriotic War and the loss of the best sons and daughters, the rebuilding, the renovation we saw before our eyes, and the Soviet enthusiasm would overcome some of the weaknesses and the undercurrent of hidden traitors (like Khrushchev) would be overcome, and, a bright sun of Socialism would now bring the blossoming of everything that the Soviet people needed and deserved, for saving all of humankind from the scourge of fascism.

We saw real progress - we saw the future - as did hundreds of thousands of tourists and dedicated friends who visited the USSR until the 1990’s! I saw weaknesses in some aspects, but friendship and dedication overcame any misgivings that I had – after all, changing the thinking and the attitude of people after the horrific devastation of the war, the onslaught of vicious propaganda, the Cold War effects that were in full force, and, under the direction and financial help from the West, the internal spies, the traitors that managed to weave their nests inside the Soviet Government, the CPSU, the Komsomol and other state structures – all of these things were meant to besmirch Socialism, besmirch the USSR and above all – the full force of Anti-Sovietism was aimed at J.V. Stalin – that was given a traitorous boost by Nikita Khrushchev.

All of these things are known not only by real friends of Soviet people, but also by an ever-growing section of the working class all over the world.

Having visited the Soviet Union 27 times since 1963, as a delegate, as head of Canadian delegations, as guest, as an active participant in Conferences that were organized by the Soviet Society for Friendship with Foreign Countries and, knowing and speaking Russian – over these many years since 1990’s I have often asked myself this question "Where Have All My Soviet Friends Gone?"

We have hundreds of new and dedicated friends now in former USSR, but the gnawing question is still, where are all those "friends" that were employed by the Soviet state, that had free schooling, that travelled all over the world, that talked "Friendship" and "Marxism" until they were blue in the face – but now, after all these years I can count on one hand only, those hundreds of friends that are still friends and involved in the struggle to resurrect the USSR and Socialism.

It seems that all of these former "friends" were just friends as long as they got good pay, as long as they could travel, as long as they could manipulate for their own use all the foreign contacts that they made. With friends like that, you do not need enemies - they are the real enemies!

Imperialism is very clever, very pragmatic, very astute in utilizing the weaknesses of some people, and thus guiding them towards their goal of undermining and sabotaging Socialism from inside.

Unfortunately the CPSU and all of the dedicated Marxists-Leninists, Stalinists around the world should learn from these grave mistakes that were made.

With over 37 Communist, Socialist, Workers Associations and Movements in Russia alone, plus to a lesser degree in other former Soviet Republics, you would think that with all these forces the struggle would be to unite all of these forces and do what has to be done as it was done in 1917!

If you take into account all the Communist and progressive forces in the world, all the Seminars, all the Meetings, all the Conferences held each year by these forces, that, after 15 years of the traitorous dismemberment of the USSR and other Socialist countries in Europe, that the logical and imperative steps would be taken to achieve UNITY, and struggle for the defeat of US Imperialism and its Fascist New World Order!

Actions usually speak louder than words comrades!

Of course dear friends, this article will be criticized much more by the left-wing press and some Communist parties than by the right wing.

One of the criticisms usually hurled at us is that "You are only a Friendship Society! Keep your nose clean from politics!"

Yes we are a Friendship Society struggling to help the Soviet People since 1918, when our first organization was set up! Friendship means to help and to also criticize if need be as a REAL friend, if in your opinion things are not going well. This is what real friends are for.

By the way, the former Soviet Ambassador to Canada, the architect of "Perestroyka" (better described as Destroyka) Alexander Yakovlev, also said that he is my friend. His words that were published at that time in Russian newspapers said: "Better watch out for that Mishka, he is a Stalinist."

With friends like that, you don’t need any enemies!