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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Karl Germer
[EXTRACT]
[29 December 1939]
The Nazi-Soviet pact was a magical error unexampled in history. It simply proved that the gang [of the Nazis] has no idea of any principles. It was the desperate tactics of a cornered gangster [i.e. Hitler]. Nor did I ever believe in the power of Russia as a striking force. Are the Soviets really less corrupt and crazy than the Boyars? Does a Jacuerie [sic] turn a shiftless ignorant proletariat into a skilled and disciplined organism of scientific habit of mind? Rubbish. German troops would have wiped out Finland in a week. And it proved how small is the Nazi margin that they allowed the USSR to seize the Baltic at all. At what a cost in prestige?
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