Virtuous as their actions may have been -- or may not have, given that the difference between the Soviet Union and the Nazi regime was one of degree and not of

Virtuous as their actions may have been -- or may not have, given that the difference between the Soviet Union and the Nazi regime was one of degree and not of kind -- they provided material aid to a foreign government then in arms against their own. Such behavior, whatever else may be said of it, is the very soul of treason, and those who engage in it may quite accurately be described as traitors.