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This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.

Testimonials to Soviet success until the Soviet Union became profit-run: Sputnik

“The Soviet Union, which only 40 years ago was a nation of peasants, today is challenging our America in…the application of science to technology…the path we chose to pursue may well determine the future not only of western civilization but freedom and peace for all peoples of the earth.” –Alabama Senator Lester Hill, following Sputnik’s launch, 1957
(Source: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~gmoritz/papers/j3.html )

Sputnik was the first satellite in world history. It launched one year into Khruschev's rule. We believe most of the credit for it has to go to Stalin, especially for promoting education and science in so short a time. Unfortunately, with the super-power status gained under Stalin's leadership, the Soviet Union became comfortable and Khruschev was soon to copy the West by mandating that industry be profit-run. Ever since that time, the Soviet Union ran out of steam and fell behind--not because of socialism but because of capitalism. Mao and Enver Hoxha criticized Khruschev at the time this happened and accused him of taking up capitalism. They have proved right.

Sputnik was,“an intercontinental outer-space raspberry to a decade of American pretensions that the American way of life was a gilt-edged guarantee of our material superiority.”--American ambassador to Italy Clare Booth Luce
(Source: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~gmoritz/papers/j3.html )

“The Soviet Union is far outstripping the United States in its emphasis on technical and scientific education.” --New York Times, November 11, 1957
(Source: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~gmoritz/papers/j3.html )

Some older people and scholars have a superior sense of history to what passes for journalism on communist history today. People who were there know better than what is being said as propaganda today about communism as a "failure." MIT Business School Dean Lester Thurow said about President Kennedy in 1960:

"He admitted that the Russians were ahead of America in space and had been growing faster economically in the 1950s." Head to Head (NY: William Morrow, 1992), p. 272.