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There is, however, a small historical error which I think should be corrected.
He seems to be under the impression that Dimitrov acted independently of Stalin when he threw out the Third Period with its tragic 'Social Fascist' nonsense (and which was taken to extremes when Manuilsky proclaimed at the 9th Plenum of the ECCI that even after the victory of Hitler in Germany, Social Democracy remained the main enemy). Stalin replaced Manuilsky. with Dimitrov to capitalise on Dimitrov's magnificent and courageous stand against the Nazis in the Reichstag fire trial. But from then on, Dimitrov became as subservient to Stalin as all the other functionaries of the Comintern - which had long been transformed from being the General Staff of the World Revolution to a branch office of the Soviet Foreign Ministry.
Stalin realised that Hitler's victory faced the Soviet Union with a very real military menace.
Instead of rallying the international working class to the defence of the Soviet Union, through his Foreign Minister, Litvinov, he sought alliances with the bourgeois democratic countries, principally France (with whom he had already come to an agreement with the Stalin/Laval Pact) and Britain.
Dimitrov's Popular Front policies were simply the implementation of this same line in the Comintern.
After his arrival in the Soviet Union, Dimitrov never once opposed Stalinism, not even the Molotov/Ribbentop pact or the dissolution of the Comintern. He became one of Stalin's lackeys.
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