A leading Australian Communist recently published an article here in which he lashed out at the Kremlin for “its violation of basic liberties” including its circulation of “anti-Semitic material” in the Soviet Union. Writing in the dissident Communist journal, Tagebuch, Eric Aarons, one of the leading members of the tiny 5,000 member Australian Communist party, termed Soviet propaganda as anti-Semitic “whether in the form of crude anti-religious propaganda or crude anti-Zionism.” The Soviets responded to Aaron’s article with a highly critical one in Novoe Vremya, a weekly international affairs periodical, accusing him, his brother Laurie and other Australian leaders of making “unfriendly and even hostile statements” about the Kremlin.
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