The U.S. Communist Party bellowed this week: "The American peoplethe workers, the toiling farmers, the Negro masses, the middle classesall those who hate fascism . . . will see in the cause of the Soviet Union and its peoples the cause of all advanced and progressive mankind."
With Britain making promises of help for Russia, the great industrial machinery of the U.S. became important to the cause of the Soviet. No Communist end, therefore, could be served by further sabotaging U.S. defense.
If all these things presaged a change in the Communist Party Line, then Germany's attack on Russia was a...
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