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235When the Bolsheviks came, the peasant had to transferhis affections from a tangible person to something that wasintangible and extremely difficult to conceive. First he wastold to love humanity. But how could he when he hadnever seen it?Then the tide turned and he was encouraged to hateforeigners because they were capitalists. Gradually he haslearned to know what nationalism means. The Five-Year-Plan has made him even more nation-conscious, for it hasinjected the competitive element into his life. He is workingnot merely to provide food and clothing for himself, but alsoto show a hostile world what a Russian Communist can do.The capitalistic countries are enemies only as competitors;as customers they are friends. It is not so much on thegrounds of party dogma but because the safety of the fatherlandwould be increased that bolshevism would like to worrycapitalism into a nervous breakdown.The affinity between the Moscow and Munich policieshas been demonstrated in the German Reichstag. While inthe North of Berlin Nazis and Bolshis crack one another‟sheads with business-like precision, in the halls of the legislaturesthey often act hand in hand. The government can, atany rate, count on their invariable hostility toward commonsense. The Socialist deputy may have been right in suggestingthat if Hitler and Stalin were to change places, neitherGermany nor Russia would notice the difference.The third dictator, Mussolini, is best known to the worldin the setting of the white stones of the Roman Colosseum.Facing a sea of faces turned toward him with the expression