Chapter 3 continues…

We understand our international duty as consisting in support for all the revolutionary, democratic movements of modern times. We Soviet Communists call upon all the fraternal parties and all the revolutionary forces to close their ranks more tightly, to overcome all difficulties, to rally under the banner of Marxism-Leninism in the name of the triumph of the working class.

Ponomarev drew sustenance from Das Kapital wherein Karl Marx had opined: “Force (Gewalt) is the midwife of an old society which is pregnant with a new one.” Writing in 1848, Marx expressed a strong belief in the necessity of political violence: “Only one means exists to shorten the bloody death pangs of the old society and the birth pangs of the new society—revolutionary violence.”

To facilitate these activities, Joseph Stalin had established the Lenin Institute (also known as the Institute of Social Studies, the Institute of Social Sciences, or the International School of Marxism-Leninism), located in Moscow. It taught the art of terrorism in the name of “revolutionary violence.”
In 1958, Khrushchev had gone further to found Patrice Lumumba Friendship University at Moscow, to serve as a base for the indoctrination and training potential young “freedom fighters” from the Third World who were not Communist Party members.

Specialized training in terrorism was provided in Baku, Odessa, Simferopol, Tashkent, and in the suburbs of Moscow. At these locations the techniques of guerrilla warfare and other skills – including the use of explosives, mining of transportation routes, commando field tactics, and the combat capabilities of shoulder- fired rockets were taught.

To be continued…