G. Edward Griffin - The Fearful Master - PDF Archive

Writing as one of UNESCO's special consultants in a symposium on human rights, Borris
Tchechko provides us with an example of just what these new frames of reference might
be. He explained that the Soviet constitution "not only constitutes one of the most decisive
stages in the advance of the ideas of the democratic emancipation of man, but also-and
this is of vital importance-sets man as a worker in ideal political, social and economic
conditions and gives him facilities for work and intellectual life." 17
On February 14, 1963, American newspapers carried a UPI report from Paris revealing
that UNESCO had just published a booklet entitled Equality of Rights Between Races and
Nationalities in the USSR. The book is pure Soviet propaganda denouncing race
discrimination in the United States while praising Soviet race relations as one of the major
social triumphs of the twentieth century:
Only the revolution of October 1917 which . . . instituted the Soviet
system, enabled the peoples of Russia to achieve genuine equality of
rights and freedom of development. . . . It was the Communist party
which showed the peoples of Russia the true way to free themselves
from social and national oppression. . . . The Soviet Union is a
brotherhood of free and equal peoples comprising 15 sovereign Soviet
republics in voluntary association on a footing of complete equality.
Under the constitution of the USSR, each of these republics retains the
right to secede from the union. Each of them embodies the collective
will of its people and can decide its own future in entire freedom. 18
Through our membership in the United Nations, the American people were required to pay
for over a third of the total cost of publishing this booklet and giving it worldwide
distribution¾ a great deal more than the Soviet Union paid.
As previously noted, William Z. Foster, who was at the time the head of the Communist
party in the United States, predicted that in the future Communist world "there will be no
place for the present narrow patriotism, the bigoted nationalist chauvinism that serves so
well the capitalist warmakers." And in the constitution of the United States Communist
party, we find the same sentiment: "The Communist party . . . fights uncompromisingly
against . . . all forms of chauvinism." With this in mind, it is doubly interesting to note the
following passages taken from a UNESCO publication entitled Toward World
Understanding:
We shall come to nationalism later on. For the moment, it is sufficient to
note that it is most frequently in the family that children are infected with
nationalism by hearing what is national extolled and what is foreign
disparaged. As chauvinism, this may be more ridiculous than
dangerous; but it must, nonetheless, be regarded as the complete
negation of world mindedness. . . . As long as the child breathes the
poisoned air of nationalism, education in world mindedness can produce
only rather precarious results. As we have pointed out, it is frequently
the family that infects the child with extreme nationalism. The school
should therefore use the means described earlier to combat family
attitudes that favor jingoism. . . . if the feeling of belonging to the human
community develops normally by extension of the feeling of belonging to
the national community, it cannot possibly develop from that caricature
of patriotism which is extreme nationalism. 19