As could be expected, the U. S. State Department opposed any investigation into the Mexico-American scandal. The tragedy in Mexico, and other similar events supported by the State Department throughout the 20th century, indicate that the plans of the trustees of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to control United States foreign policy had indeed become a reality. In the light of the circumstances, the ability of the people of Mexico to retain their Christian heritage is a tribute to their civilization. That they continue to come across the border into the United states by the millions is a sure sign that the socialist wreckers of their nation still control Mexico. At the same time that the ground-work for a war against religion in Mexico was being laid, a war against religion was getting under way in the country that was to become the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.). In many respects, the background of events leading up to, and during, the horror that occurred in the Soviet Union was similar to that which occurred in The seeds of revolution had been planted in Russia as early as the eighteenth century by Illuminated Free Masonry moving into Russia from Germany and France. The scholar Barruel (writing in 1798) had this to say 116 The Secret Side of History Mexico and France. about French involvement: