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Today the United States <strong>of</strong> America has become moremilitarized than ever and has increased its troops <strong>to</strong> over2,700,000 men, or eleven times the 1934 <strong>to</strong>tal and nine timesthe 1939 <strong>to</strong>tal. It has so many police and secret service organizati<strong>on</strong>sthat even some <strong>of</strong> the big U.S. capitalists havehad <strong>to</strong> admit that it <strong>to</strong>ps the world in this respect, havingfar surpassed Hitlerite Germany.Britain’s standing army increased from over 250,000 menin 1934 <strong>to</strong> over 420,000 in 1963, and its police force from67,000 in 1934 <strong>to</strong> 87,000 in 1963.France’s standing army increased from 650,000 in 1934 <strong>to</strong>over 740,000 in 1963, and its police and security forces from80,000 in 1934 <strong>to</strong> 120,000 in 1963.Other imperialist countries and even the ordinary run <strong>of</strong>capitalist countries are no excepti<strong>on</strong>s <strong>to</strong> this large-scalestrengthening <strong>of</strong> the armed forces and police.Khrushchov is zealously using the slogan <strong>of</strong> general andcomplete disarmament <strong>to</strong> immobilize the people. He has beenchanting it for many years now. But in actual fact thereis not even a shadow <strong>of</strong> general and complete disarmament.Everywhere in the imperialist camp headed by the UnitedStates <strong>on</strong>e finds a general and complete arms drive and anexpansi<strong>on</strong> and strengthening <strong>of</strong> the apparatus <strong>of</strong> violent suppressi<strong>on</strong>.Why are the bourgeoisie so frenziedly reinforcing theirarmed forces and police in peace time? Can it be that theirpurpose is not <strong>to</strong> suppress the mass movements <strong>of</strong> the workingpeople but rather <strong>to</strong> guarantee that the latter can win statepower by peaceful means? Haven’t the ruling bourgeoisiecommitted enough atrocities in the nineteen years since theWar in employing soldiers and policemen <strong>to</strong> suppress strikingworkers and people struggling for their democratic rights?In the past nineteen years, U.S. imperialism has organizedmilitary blocs and c<strong>on</strong>cluded military treaties with more thanforty countries. It has set up over 2,200 military bases andinstallati<strong>on</strong>s in all parts <strong>of</strong> the capitalist world. Its armed385

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