FilmIndia (1948)

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Time and again we find the leaders of our Congress Socialist parties vomitting some seasonal bile against lommunists in India. When the Communists in i become too inconvenient our popular ministers ve their nails temporarily by offering them state itality in public prisons. Very recently the Communists took a short-lived real in proletarian ruling by capturing two districts e Hyderabad State. The Indian army, which badly any sense of humour when on the march, as the m recently discovered to his cost, disturbed the erste paramountry of the Communists and sent the Red . running like rabbits, underground, the region where Ixism thrives unseen and undisturbed. We are, however, not concerned with the activities le Communists in the field of politics, even though n's shadow has stretched from Malaya to Manchuria rubs shoulders with us in Burma. We have a crowd rofessional politicians to attend to this menace h is staring our freedom in the face in almost every of life — from love to labour. Due to lack of foresight and concerted action to p out Communism in our country, the Communist in the country are multiplying fast and now quite w of them are firmly established in our film field r the guise of cultural friendship. Some years back the ''friendly' Russians establishin organization called "The Friends of the Soviet on" and managed to acquire the smiling patronage [uite a few Congressmen and even induced one deepi Congressman, like Syed Abdulla Brelvi to accept chairmanship of the Organization. Securing Brelvi a master-stroke of Soviet strategy. No one in the Id can associate blood and Bolshevism with the gen>oft-voiced Brelvi who has never used anything but words in a life-time of journalism, even through our fight of freedom with the British. With the establishment of "The Friends of the iet Union", began the systematic cultural poisoning >ur people. Cheaply priced books and other literaon Communism (lowed into the country by thous; monthly magazines and weekly periodicals came existence in different Indian languages; exhibitions e organized month after month in different Indian M to propagate the Soviet way of life and finally films were brought into India to enter Indian hearts through their eyes and ears by showing to our ignorant masses the last 'paradise' on earth. For all appearances, the "Friends of the Soviet Union" keeps itself aloof from the political Communist party in India, even though R. M. Jambhekar, a deepdyed Communist, edits "Indo-Soviet Journal", a monthly magazine published by the "Friends of the Soviet I nion". There is a general shortage of paper in our country and newsprint is rationed to our dailies and other national periodicals, but there is evidently enough paper to print Soviet periodicals like "Indo-Soviet Journal and "People's Age" in several languages simultaneously all over the country. But the biggest miracle of the 20th Century, is that the Indian Communists and these "Friends" can publish all these papers regularly every week or every month in different languages without any money and without any advertising revenue. Of course, the money which these "Comrades" collect by sale of books and exhibition of films doesn't go out of the country on the delicately sentimental principle of Indian money for Indians and the money is in turn used to print more such literature and hold more cultural exhibitions. In 1943, Russian V. G. Sayadiants first came to India and established "Asia Films of China". "Asia" and "China" — two words which Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru loves and dreams about. Hadn't Pandit Nehru met the Chiangs of China and been charmed by the personality of Madam Chiang Kai-shek? After that, surely, no one must suspect anv possible Communism in the "Asia Films of China", seeing that the "Films" were sandwiched between "Asia" and "China". India and China are twin heirs of Oriental culture and though Russia was never a part of our Oriental heritage, as a hospitable race we could not possibly stop Sayadiants from coming to India, with "Asia" and "China" on his coat lapels. Sayadiants, the Soviet film man. knew his way to India and he came the China way though it was a bit circuitous. With the Chinese Poppy in his buttonhole, the charming and hospitable Sayadiants soon collected a number of local admirers who saw and admired several Soviet cultural films which the ever-smiling, obliging Sayadiants had managed to obtain with "great difficulty".