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From The Militant, Vol. X No. 25, 22 June 1946, p. 7.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.
The Stalinists follow a propaganda technique perfected by the Nazis. They smear a political opponent with the most monstrous slander possible and then repeat the lie like a needle stuck on a phonograph record.
The June 13 Daily Worker thus rattles off once more the long-ago-exploded frameup accusation that Trotsky “made a deal with the Nazis to help overthrow the Soviet government.”
The Stalinist poison pen hacks did not repeat the old lie that this alleged “deal” was made through Hess. And for good reason.
Hess is now on trial at Nuremburg [sic!] as a war criminal. The Stalinist prosecution has had full opportunity to question Hess and to dig up any “exhibits” out of Nazi files that might substantiate Stalin’s slanderous charge. But the Stalinist prosecution has not asked Hess or the other Nazi leaders one single question about this “deal.” In fact during the long months of the trial the Stalinists have not even breathed Trotsky’s name!
This is the reason for the delicate touch in the Daily Worker’s latest serving of ancient garbage. They carefully blue-pencilled any mention of Hess. It is not for the hatchetmen on Foster’s payroll to embarrass the Stalinist prosecution at Nuremburg! [sic!]
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