Peaceful Coexistence and International Cooperation

Abstract

The persistent struggle waged by the Soviet Union and the other socialist countries for peaceful coexistence among states with differing social systems has greatly increased the authority of this humanitarian policy in the eyes of the peoples of the world. Belligerent appeals for an outright rejection of peaceful coexistence heard less and less frequently, even among the ideologists of imperialism. They compelled to adapt themselves to the situation and to camouflage themselves with the masks of the peacemaker. Bourgeois professors of social science say they for peace and peaceful coexistence. However, these concepts sometimes given such a distorted interpretation that all real content evaporates. Peaceful coexistence and the cold war, we read, for example, in the words of the British professor, Hugh Seton-Watson, are literally the same thing. (1) [All quotations from non-Russian sources retranslated from the Russian.] Thus, a single sentence suffices, by an act of sophistry, to tr...