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Leninism has proved, and the imperialist war and the revolution in Russia have confirmed, that the national question can be solved only in connection with and on the basis of the proletarian revolution, and that the road to victory of the revolution in the West lies through the revolutionary alliance with the liberation movement of the colonies and dependent countries against imperiali.sm. [...] The nat.ural question is a part of the general question of the proletarian revolution, a part of the question of the dictatorship of the proletariat. [...] The mechanics of the development of imperialism, the imperialist war, and the ~evolution in Russia wholly confirm the conclusions of Leninism on this scoreo if,mce the necessity for the proletariat of the 1 dominant 1 nations to , support-resolutely and actively to support--the national liberation move- , ment of the oppressed and dependent peoples. [...] The real revolution in the argument of the ~oviets must be a national independent revolution based on economic and social liberation This would entail a socialist revolution" In the period b<>tween the first Egyptian revolution of 1952 and the second manifestation of revolt, culminating in the Egyptian seizure of the Suez Canal, the accent was on political .. [...] Anthony Nutting who was British Ministeif'.iof State in the Foreign Office published in July 1967 a book o/hich argues that Britain, France and Israel met in advance and tllot:t'ed the Suez drive "to gain physical control of the Suez Canal."'·Be ~his as it may, the end of the action in 1956 was the failure of this'plan because of the attitude of the United States and the actiQil..