BREZHNEV-KOSYGIN SERVE AN INDONESIAN GUEST AN HORS D'OEUVRE
Adam Malik, the foreign minister of the counterrevolutionary Indonesian government, stopped off in the Soviet Union on the way back from a visit to the United States, and was wined and dined there from October 17 to October 22.
It is unavoidable for a workers state to maintain diplomatic relations with bour-geois governments, even those that have just engaged in the mass murder of Communists and revolutionary workers. The government headed by Lenin was forced to adhere to this pattern; and Lenin explained why it had to conform as long as the world revolution still remained to be completed.
Of course, in Lenin's time Communist parties never automatically shaped their policies in accordance: with the diplomatic needs of the Soviet government. Lenin's government in particular never confused normal diplomatic relations between states with opportunistic adaptation or even approval of the bourgeois policies of governments with which the Soviet Union was forced to maintain relations.
Things changed radically in Stalin's time. Khrushchev continued the pattern of gross opportunism established by Stalin. And Brezhnev-Kosygin are following the same path.
Thus, in preparation for Malik's stopover in Moscow, M.D. Sytenko, the Soviet ambassador in Djakarta, went out of his way to laud the counterrevolutionary Indonesian government. According to a dispatch released September 18 by Antara, the indonesian press agency, Sytenko declared that Indonesia was "continuing her anti-imperialist and anticolonialist policy" and that "the attitude of the Soviet government towards Indonesia remains unchanged." :
In Moscow October 18, Malik was the guest of honor at a banquet at which he delivered a lengthy speech. The Soviet press kept this speech under wraps, but Antara reported it extensively October 19. On reading this report, one can readily understand why the Soviet press found silence to be highly appropriate.
At the banquet, Malik violently attacked the Indonesian Communist party and defended his government's decision to smash it. He further warned his hosts not to comment on what he was saying, since the suppression of the Indonesian Communist party was an “internal problem" of concern only to Indonesia. His compliant hosts dutifully adhered to his strictures. .
But the worst act of betrayal was committed by Stalin's heirs just before Malik arrived in Moscow. Answar Dharmar, correspondent of Harian Rakjat, the official organ of the Indonesian Communist party, was expelled from the Soviet Union!
The counterrevolutionary Indonesian government stands in the blood of 500,000 murdered Communists and revolutionary workers and peasants. The murderers are free to travel as they will. The statesmen of imperialism and the political leaders of the Soviet bureaucracy vie in féting them at banquets. And in this repulsive competition, it took Brezhnev-Kosygin to conceive of the idea of presenting Malik with the head of a representative of the witch-hunted Indonesian Communist party as an hors d'oeuvre.