And this is what was said by Lenin in 1919, which was also quoted with approval by Stalin in 1947: "We are living," said Lenin, "not merely in a state but in a system of states, and the existence of the Soviet Republic side by side with Christian states for a long time is unthinkable. One or the other must triumph in the end. And before that end supervenes, a series of frightful collisions between the Soviet Republic and the bourgeois states will be inevitable." In paragraph 5 of this speech McCarthy references a quotation from Lenin, approved by Joseph Stalin (lines 22-26); this quotation is included in order to support all of the following ideas EXCEPT:

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the idea that “when a great democracy is destroyed, it will not be because of enemies from without but rather because of enemies from within.”

the idea that “the modern champions of communism have selected this as the time” for an “all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity.”

the idea that “today we can almost physically hear the mutterings and rumblings of an invigorated god of war.”

the idea that “this is a time when all the world is split into two vast, increasingly hostile armed camps.”