PHOTOGRAPHS OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD TAKEN IN MINSK
COMMISSION EXHIBIT 2891
COMMISSION EXHIBIT 2892
(COMMISSION EXHIBIT 2788)
PHOTOGRAPH OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD
TAKEN AFTER HIS RETURN FROM THE SOVIET UNION
“The Collective” contrasts sharply with material which Oswald seems to have written after he left the Soviet Union,[C7-210] which appears to be more an expression of his own psychological condition than of a reasoned analysis. The latter material expresses great hostility to both communism and capitalism. He wrote, that to a person knowing both of those systems, “their can be no mediation between those systems as they exist to-day and that person. He must be opposed to their basic foundations and representatives”[C7-211]
and yet it is imature to take the sort of attitude which says “a curse on both your houses!” their are two great represenative of power in the world, simply expressed, the left and right, and their offspring factions and concers. any practical attempt at one alternative must have as its nuclus the triditionall ideological best of both systems, and yet be utterly opposed to both systems.[C7-212]
Such an alternative was to be opposed both to capitalism and communism because:
No man, having known, having lived, under the Russian Communist and American capitalist system, could possibly make a choice between them, there is no choice, one offers oppresstion the other poverty. Both offer imperilistic injustice, tinted with two brands of slavery.[C7-213]
Oswald actually did attempt to formulate such an alternative[C7-214] which he planned to “put forward” himself.[C7-215] He thought the new alternative would have its best chance to be accepted after “conflict between the two world systems leaves the world country without defense or foundation of goverment,”[C7-216] after which the survivors would “seek a alturnative opposed to those systems which have brough them misery.”[C7-217] Oswald realized that “their thinking and education will be steeped in the traiditions of those systems [and] they would never except a ‘new order’ complete beyond their understanding.”[C7-218] As a result he thought it would be “neccary to oppose the old systems but at the same time support their cherised trations.”[C7-219]