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Deceitful Peace: A New Look at the Soviet Threat By Gerhart Niemeyer

Arlington House, 201 pp., $6.95 In the 1930s, leaders of the democracies wasted precious years and, ultimately, millions of lives trying to understand Hitler’s disagreeable tendency to act like the author of Mein Kampf. Today there are important Americans who, if they ever noticed it, would be bewildered by the congruence between North Vietnam’s deeds and the words of Khrushchev’s speech of January 6, 1961, and the 1961 program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and numerous writings of Mao and Ho. The existence of these Americans is the reason Professor Gerhart Niemeyer wrote this essay on Soviet ideology.

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Deceitful Peace: A New Look at the Soviet Threat By Gerhart Niemeyer

Arlington House, 201 pp., $6.95 In the 1930s, leaders of the democracies wasted precious years and, ultimately, millions of lives trying to understand Hitler’s disagreeable tendency to act like the author of Mein Kampf. Today there are important Americans who, if they ever noticed it, would be bewildered by the congruence between North Vietnam’s deeds and the words of Khrushchev’s speech of January 6, 1961, and the 1961 program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and numerous writings of Mao and Ho. The existence of these Americans is the reason Professor Gerhart Niemeyer wrote this essay on Soviet ideology.