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(For our Army)
t'LKiHT WHCH It EDTKRKOK Inn nil communist countries, military service is not boned on honor and lore for tbe father land (foal Inge far which there is hardly say apace in theIsllsl Ideology of tboat on consols ion and terror. Barbaric punishment, usually deportation to forced labor In too alnee and quarries of northeastern Siberia or Control Asia, smite not only the soldier for even minor infraotlono of the iiihunans, harsh code of discipline -hotoldier'a parents, wife or children, if tbo soldier is late ln returning from leave or case* under suspicion of being politically(tbat is, if he is oarelese enough to have an opinion of his own even If It deviates only by minute degrees fron tbo official partyet alone, if he deserts.
This barah regime ia maintained not only through regular nilitary oorsaand channels, but even aore through an elaborate system of political spying and control. In the early days of the had Army. Immediately after
tho revolutionhis control was rather crudely oxer els ad by Political Contain care who wore usually the real commanders of troops and beside whom the commending officers playedather pitiful role of "technical advisers". Today, seat nod Army of floors are the product of coaaunist education and indoctrination and their authority of command has beent least outwaroly. Political control la bettor camouflaged, but no less effective or cruel i there are informers in every unit, among the officers as well ae among the enlisted personnel, who do not report to their military superiors but to the dreaded, all-powerful Secret Political Police.
this brutal, degradingr perhaps rather Just bo canoe ofhere are sore caaec of desertion and defection froa ccasnmlst-controlled amies tuan from any other army ln modern times. Notwithstanding all communist Inaoctrlnatlon efforts, offioers snd anllstad nan hare been rebelling again and again since they could not bear to feel the leaden fiat of the pover-crasy caataunlet party and government bureaucracy crushing their human dignity every day.
Durint, World War II, hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers, including thousands of officers and even several scores of generals not only surrendered to tbe Gorman amies, but volunteered to tight on tbe Geraaa side against Stalin's forces,esperate effort to help liberate their homeland from ceanunist dictatorship. During the Korean war,0 berth Korean and Chineae Coaanmiat soldi era, taken prisoner by tba united Nations Forces, refused to be repatriated to their coBBunist-ruled homelands. Many of tbaa tbruatenad to commit suioido rather than return under tbe Soviet knout -even though they knew that they were hereby endangering their own families whom thay left behind ac virtual hostages.
In tine of paeoa, it is of course fardifficulteanunist officer or soldier to escape frca nix cruel mastersi the borders arouardsd, long stretches are barred with wire entanglements and even with mine fields. oracunlBt country sends an offieor as military attacheon-carv:anist country, hie family ia retained hone as hostageo not only for his return, bat also for his "good behavior" abroad. Conn unlet troops permanently stationed In foreign countries, for instance, thesslan
Divisions stationed In tbo Soviet occupation sones of Ckirmany and Austria, in Poland, unngery, Finland,re virtually quarantined ln barracks usually far distant froa toe near oat town, kept fron all con tacts with tba local populations and rigidly guarded and spied upon.
uevsrtheless, tbo stress of defectors fron Red Any terror has never ceased completely, among the most daring cases of escape to freedom, wo say mention particularly pilots and airmen from oammunist lands who are using tbe freedom of the air to erose an otherwise hermetically sealed border. From CeaebnsloveJda alone, several crews of military as veil as civilian planes loaded ln Qermany or lnsking and receiving political asylum. articularly dramaticolish pilot, hotly pursued by other Polish planes,ovieVbmlltJet fighter on the lianish island of flomhola. Several similar flights were reported during the Korean war where both Worth Korean aad Chinese airmen rode the airwaves to freedom.
ree country, in an army which is left Independent to serve its natural role of defending tbs country, you might call those men 'deserters0.
But under the conditions to which wo have referred above,ommunist dictatorship, where tha amy has been degraded tooullees tool of unbeundsd political ambition, such flight le actually return to duty. These men are Joining their fellow-countryman in exile in the struggle for the liberation of their homelands. They help to expose the sinister conspiracy of the dictators and thay makealiant contribution to tho cause of peace and liberty.
liey the sen who conspiro today to turn our Ouateaalan army, too, Into
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an instrument of conaunlct dictatorehio end aggression, atop to consider the ominous example of the Had Amy with ita seat deaertlona and way all officere and men ln our armed foroao atudy the exporlencee of all amine tinder eomuniat ruletem warning In the lest hourl
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