—Meeting of the secretariat with directors of radio stations and political workers on problems of covering the Anglo-Soviet pact, the Sov[iet]-Amer[ican] agreement, the session of the USSR supreme soviet on ratification of the pact and the review of the first year of the Patriotic War against the Germano-fascist hordes.
Valuable and useful exchange of views. I provided the direct[ors] with guidelines:
1. The aggressive nature of our propaganda; keep the initiative in our hands.
2. Bear in mind that the worse the enemy’s position becomes, the more furiously he will try to save himself, using anything and everything that he thinks possible; hence, we are still faced with a severe and arduous struggle to bring about his destruction.
3. We have every possibility of destroying the enemy before 1942 is out, but these are only possibilities. The actual destruction of the enemy will require the persistent and intelligent exploitation of these possibilities. Victory will have to be earned.
4. The issue of a second front has already been raised concretely and is on the agenda. But successfully bringing about the second front requires the active participation of the peoples of the European continent as well in the struggle against the occupiers. The development of that struggle (including part[isan] warfare) is both a condition and a constituent part of the second front, that is, the invasion of the European continent by Anglo-American armed forces. It is on the basis of these points that our radio propaganda should proceed for the immediate future.
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