The National Liberation Movement: Selected Passages (1956-1963), by N. S. Khrushchov (softcover, 1963, $2)
"All this is claptrap, the ravings of slave-traders and slave-owners. What they are out for is not to introduce civilisation, but to continue using the cheap labour of the people in the colonies, to continue exploiting the wealth of these countries, to wring profits out of the oppressed peoples and grow fat by robbing them." - 1960
Even if you agree with the above statements, you would have to agree that Soviet Russia was not innocent of what they accused the west of doing. Khrushchov talks about the "Capitalist Imperialists" as "perpetuating economic dependence". He claims "We do not demand military bases and concessions in exchange for our assistance..." and "We support the Liberation Wars of the Peoples." When Khrushchov wrote this, Britain, France and Israel had just invaded Egypt. Meanwhile, some British colonies were still not independent. Yet even when this was written, the colonialist system was dying, and Soviet control was growing. Quite a few countries would have disagreed with the idea that they had been "liberated" by Russia.
One wonders what Khrushchov would say of the fall of the Soviet Union, and now to the rule of Putin. What would he say to the recent mass protests?
Look for this pamphlet in the Russian history section, avail. 1/27.
