The Great Architect - Pavel Krasnov

By PAVEL KRASNOV

On the 21st of December, it was 130 years since the birth of Joseph Stalin, one of the greatest people in human history, the architect of a new society, a society that has shown effectiveness unseen before in human history.

An undeniable fact is that when Stalin came to power, Russia was an undeveloped country with an 80% illiteracy rate, approximately 50-100 years historically behind the world's leading countries. When he left, Russia was a world leader – the most educated country in the world with space rockets, nuclear reactors, public health care and education systems, leading scientific research, the strongest army in the world and much more. It was under his guidance that the country has twice literally raised from ashes – after the Civil and Second World Wars.

Here is what Stalin accomplished:

He returned to his country all native lands which were previously lost as a result of wars and political intrigues. The USSR, which was previously surrounded by aggressive enemies, became surrounded by countries with friendly regimes.

Under Stalin's leadership, the USSR won all 5 of its local wars, and both global wars – the war with Nazi Germany in 1941-1945 and with the Japan in 1945.

Stalin's greatest geopolitical and military success is the victory of the Second World War. The military losses of the USSR and those of the "Third Reich" were practically equal. The USSR, under Stalin's leadership, was fighting against almost all Europe and destroyed 75% of the military forces of the Nazis and their allies, whereas the Allies and ail other participants destroyed the other 25%. Civilization was rescued from Nazi domination, and entire nations were saved from being totally wiped out or enslaved: Slavic peoples, Jews, Gypsies, etc.

The World Socialist System, in the creation of which Stalin played a key role, led to the crash of world colonialism that completely changed the situation on the planet. For example, without the help of the USSR, China would have not received independence. The Chinese Communist Party was so amazed by the nobility of the USSR and Stalin himself that they have offered to place them under Stalin's command. However, Stalin told them that China has to take its own way to Socialism, using its own efforts and the help of the USSR, and not under external command. Would Stalin have been a dictator with a dream to rule the world, he would have taken this chance. He, however, did not.

The biggest historical achievement of Stalin was the building of the first Socialist society in human history. This society demonstrated the fundamental abilities of this type of society and given priceless experiences.

The USSR, under the leadership of Stalin, demonstrated an unprecedented effectiveness and the ability to accomplish seemingly impossible goals. For instance, during the Industrialization, the country built over 9000 large production factories in 10 years – 2 or 3 large factories were completed every single day. Created from scratch, they formed complete branches of high-tech industries: chemical, medical, aircraft and so on. The rate of growth was up to 30% per year, whereas during the widely advertised 'Japanese miracle' growth never exceeded 15% per year.

The society of Stalin solved the problem of unemployment, narcotics, homelessness and other social illnesses that were before considered incurable. There were created public systems of schooling, medical care, pensions, worker care systems and sport programs that western workers could not even dream about. All similar western social programs appeared as an answer to the achievements of the USSR to prevent socialist revolutions in the Western countries.

In Stalin's USSR the fairest social opportunity system was created. Opportunities were equal for everyone, and the son of a farmer could become a professor, a minister, or even a leader. Classic examples of this are Gorbachev, who was a combine operator, and Khrushchev, who was a herder when he was young.

Stalin from the very beginning oriented Soviet Socialism towards the highest technologies that are now called "revolutionary". The most prominent of them are the Soviet space program and nuclear energy program. They became possible only by consolidating thousands of smaller technologies and inventions. Stalin's system was able to educate, gather and manage a team of highest-level professionals to achieve this.

Even now, the ideas of Stalin and the fantastic achievements of the USSR are extremely dangerous for the capitalist elite of the' West and the degenerated soviet bureaucracy that betrayed the USSR. Because it is impossible to hide these achievements, an attempt was taken to slander them. This slander and disinformation were fantastically financed – literally hundreds * of billions dollars were spent within a few decades. Anti-Stalin hysteria does not stop even after more than a half century after his death. They are horrified by the very fact that the people still know of the fundamental ability to build a Socialist society of the type of Stalin's USSR.

The successes of the USSR are attempted to be explained by the hypothesis that 'half of the country was enslaved' and that these slaves built the industries – that was the reason for so fast progress. But at least one of these statements has to be wrong – either "slave labor" is more effective than the capitalist way of production, or that USSR was not built and based on 'slave labor' at all and its successes are due to a new, more effective way of social organization. As past practice demonstrated, slave labor has never demonstrated positive results in the industrial setting. Thus, any ideas about building the USSR by the hands of slaves are nothing more than a lie, similar to those about "dozens of millions of repressed" etc.

According to the data from state archives, which were first opened by V. Zemskov and accepted by the international scientific society, the facts are: in the so called 'horrible 1937' in the entire GULAG system there were a little fewer than 1 million and 200 thousand prisoners. 87% of them were just normal criminals such as thieves, robbers and so on. In 1938 the GULAG system had 1 million 881 thousand prisoners, 81% of which were normal criminals without any relation to politics and anti-state crimes.

The maximum number of prisoners was in 1950 – 2 millions 561 thousand, where 77% were normal criminals – it was the time of suppression of the post-war criminal outburst. Of the other 23%, huge number were wartime criminals (this was considered in the USSR to be a political crime), such as nazi collaborators, marauders and other similar 'innocent victims of Stalinism'.

Is it a lot – almost 1.9 million at the peak of 'mass repression?' If we compare this number to the "bastion of democracy" – the US, we will see that presently, without any wars, the US prison system contains more than 2.3 million prisoners. If we compare it to Russia in the year 2000, we can see that Russia had 1.1 million prisoners. The population of the US is almost 300 million, Russia has a bit more than 140 million and the USSR in 1937-1938 had approximately 190 million. In percentages, the number of prisoners in the USSR in 1937 is 25% less than in Putin's Russia in 2000, and in 1938 the USSR had 25% more prisoners than Russia in 2000. A similar situation occurs in comparison with the States. The maximum prisoner percentage in the USSR is the same as that in Texas and Louisiana presently. So, the probability of being in a prison in Stalin's USSR, Putin's Russia and in the US is practically the same.

Prisoners in Stalin's USSR never made up more than 2% of labor resources of the entire country. Consequently, statements such as 'the soviet industrialization was done by the enslaved prisoners' are nothing more than stupid lies. 2% could not make even a visible contribution to the Soviet economy. Moreover, the prisoners could do only low-skilled labor, and the modern industry could be built only by the efforts of dozens of millions of highly skilled workers, mechanics, engineers, scientists, technologists, transport specialists and so on.

The average number of prisoners during the period of Soviet Industrialization was about 0.8% of all Soviet manpower resources. So we can confirm that the contribution of prisoners to work in Soviet economy was negligible.

Furthermore, the main thing is that the industrialization had been successfully accomplished by the summer of 1939, and in the toughest years of Industrialization the number of prisoners in the USSR was incredibly small. For instance, there were only approximately half a million prisoners in 1934. Thus, this matter is not even a subject of discussion.

The achievements of Stalin's USSR were so overwhelming that they caused a shock all over the world. It also caused a real blast of love for the USSR – in many countries there were established societies of friendship with the USSR, thousands of writers, journalists and public figures visited the Soviet country and were astonished by the soviet spirit of joyous creativity and enthusiasm.

You can see happy and concentrated faces of soviet people in the photos and in the documentary movies of those days, feature films, books and soviet songs filled with happiness and miracles that were coming true.

In less than 10 years in the previously illiterate country there took place a true Cultural Revolution. The USSR became the most reading country in the world. In every village and town there opened Houses of Culture, libraries, and cultural clubs. The entire people got the ability to engage in arts, music, theater performance, sports and so on.

It was the time when a labor worker could earn a salary greater than that of a factory director or even a minister. The reason was in the progressive payment plan: if a worker exceeded the work plan, then on any work over the 100% work plan amount, they received a 1.5 times the pay. If they performed over 150% they received twice the pay, and over 200% – 3 times the pay. Now falsifiers like to talk about "enslaved farmers". In Stalin's time a hard-working and successful peasant could earn very good money. There are several cases when individual peasants during the wartime paid for a high-tech warplane and many – for a tank. Was this very hard to achieve? Yes, it was. Could you show me how many farmers in the US can pay for a warplane – even at prime cost?

The number of necessary workdays in kolkhozes for farmers was from 60 to 100 depending on the region during the 30's. Only during the war in 1941-1945 the number of necessary workdays was increased to 100-150. Only after the dismantling of Stalin's system began did Khrushchev's regime increase the number of workdays to 300-350 per year.

In the beginning of Stalin's time, these workdays paid the necessary living minimum, which, compared to the czar's regime with a famine every decade, was a great improvement. These workdays were needed to give the collective farmers free medicine, education, libraries, etc. – things that in czar's time they could not even dream about. Later on, as the economy developed, these payments were greatly increased. During their free time, a farmer could work for himself on his personal land lot to grow fruits, vegetables and so on, or to work in a cooperative, which were very widespread during Stalin's time.

The idea about the "robbery of farmers" to build the industry, which appeared from time to time, is nothing more than a lie sincethe primary goals for the Industrialization were tractor and auto factories that were needed to make the hard work of a farmer easier. The entire country worked hard at that time, not just the farmers, but since 90% of country’s population lived in the countryside, then obviously the trade resources could only be taken from there. The resources were taken from the villages, but were given back very fast as tractors, trucks, hospitals, schools, kindergartens, Culture houses, sport clubs, industrial production and so on.

Now the falsifiers are trying to create the impression that Stalin's economy was a super-centralized, so-called "administrative command economy" where all of the production of the USSR was planned in Moscow almost literally to each shovel. It is a lie – Stalin's economy was exceptionally effective and flexible with multi-level planning using the intellectual potential of expert councils. Multi-level expert councils used in the economy is the idea that the best brains of western economic schools have just begun to think about.

In the same time, those who wanted to show wide personal initiative could work in the cooperatives. They could not hire the workers but could make agreements with people, other cooperatives, kolkhozes (agricultural cooperatives) and state factories with quite free pricing agreements.

In Stalin's time, about 2 million workers worked in industrial and service cooperatives, which produced 6% of gross output of the USSR production: 40% of all furniture, 70% of metal crockery and dishes, 35% of outer clothing and knitted fabric, almost 100% of toys. In the USSR there were 100 cooperative industrial design offices, 22 cooperative experimental laboratories, and even 2 cooperative research institutes that lived on contracts with kolkhozes, the government and other production cooperatives. This does not include the huge number of part-time agricultural, production, and service cooperatives that employed, in Stalin's time, approximately 30 million part-time workers. Usually cooperatives were very well planned and organized and involved good professionals, which explain their high percentages in the USSR production.

A person who wanted to work as an individual had all ability to do this; for example it was possible to be a private photographer, doctors could have private practice and so on. The only limitation was that they could not hire employees to get profit from them.

All this was wiped out by Khrushchev in 1956 – the property of cooperatives and individuals was confiscated; the farmer's private auxiliary was confiscated including private cattle.

The death of the "Father of the Nation," as Stalin was called in the USSR, was an incredible shock for Soviet people. Without any exaggeration all Soviet people were crying. It was almost impossible to get to Moscow those days: all trains, buses, plains were overcrowded. People arrived on the roofs of the trains (it was March in Russia!), on the platforms of train cars and so on. Enforced patrols failed to block the capital from many million people who arrived from the whole country. Despite punishments and penalties for absence from work places, people left from factories, farms, schools, institutes to see Stalin one last time. It is impossible to force this love. The people would go for thousands of kilometers ignoring punishment only for one reason – if they were forced by the really fair love.

Let's say a few words about Stalin's personality. He was a man who disciplined and developed himself his entire life; he developed a fantastic memory and the ability to master enormous volumes of information, working productively for up to 15 hours a day for many decades. All his life he studied – of almost 6000 books in his personal library, more than 3000 are covered with his pencil writings. All people who communicated with Stalin emphasized his extraordinary ability to grasp any subject and amazing abilities to perceive information. In addition to his government work, Stalin read more than 300 pages of technical literature every day, and he was extremely widely educated in technical and scientific areas.

All his life Stalin lived in poverty. He had literally no new suit to be buried in – the tailors needed to make it urgently. All revenue from his publications he spent to support students, inventors and arts – on the famous Stalin's premiums. When Stalin was a teenager he wrote very good poetry that was included in school textbooks in Georgia a long time before the Revolution.

When his son Jacob was captured by Nazis, and they proposed to exchange Jacob for field marshal Paulus, who was captured by the Soviet Army, Stalin answered in the fashion of ancient Roman warriors or Japanese samurai: "I do not exchange soldiers for failed marshals!" When marshal Vasilevski told Stalin: "It is your son", Stalin answered: "All soldiers are my sons." This was not told to journalists, and was hidden for a long time.

Even his mortal enemy – Lev Trotsky admitted Stalin's intrepidity in the face of danger. Even his enemies like Hitler and Churchill admitted that Stalin was a historical person of a giant scale; they emphasized his incredible willpower and intellect. It is hard to image what was the spiritual power of this man if even his mortal enemies admired it.

Churchill said that when Stalin entered the room, he felt an irresistible desire to stand to attention. When Stalin, after the Teheran conference, came to thank the Iranian Shah, the Shah suddenly fell onto his knees and whispering 'Saint! Saint!' he started to kiss Stalin's hands. Stalin was taken aback for a few seconds but then firmly raised the Shah onto his feet.

During the Revolution, Josef Stalin carried out the most special, most important missions. He was known for his exceptional personal bravery. He was given the order of the 'Red Banner', which was the highest government award of that time and very few people had it. For his exceptional role in the Czaricin defense during the Civil War in 1925, the city was renamed in honor of Stalin, and with the name 'Stalingrad' it will become famous in the entire world later on.

What is interesting is that for many years Stalin did not have any government position or official power, other than his huge personal authority. In the first 10 years of the USSR, Stalin 3 times officially asked to resign, but his resignation was never accepted. He was most likely disgusted with the need for quarreling for a career with the ambitious place-hunters. The position of the Secretary General of the Bolsheviks party, before Stalin took it, had a third-level role in the state power hierarchy and at the time it meant just a very technical position of the 'head of the party chancellery'. The head of the Soviet state was the Chairman of Council of People's Commissars. Lenin had exactly this position. Within ten years Stalin was recognized by all as a national leader, and at the same time he did not hold any formal constitutional position. However, everybody knew – if the task needed to be done then it should be entrusted to Stalin. Stalin was a member of an important organ of the Communist party – the political bureau, but he was only, one of its 6 members. In 1934 the Congress of the Communist Party liquidated the position of Secretary General and Stalin became one of its 4 secretaries – together with Zhdanov, Kirov and Kaganovich, and since then he signed all documents as 'a secretary of the Central Committee'. The first official position that Stalin got was in 1941, when he became the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars. The position of the Secretary General was restored by Khrushchev's regime soon after Stalin's death and the official leadership of this General Secretary position was established only in 1966 by Brezhnev.

Stalin was poisoned in March 1953 and this is now accepted almost officially. 2 years ago the history of his last sickness was published and even for non-professionals it became obvious that it was murder. Most likely this was done by Khrushchev. A few months before his death, Stalin made an attempt to remove the communist party from power and leave to it only ideological and human resources tasks. The degenerated party elite was shocked by this, and decided to murder of Stalin. Stalin was killed in the field of duty, to the very last minute trying to protect the country and the Soviet people from the transformed elite. Even now, almost 60 years after his death, even his image and the memories about truth of Stalin are very dangerous for his enemies.

After the lies of the 20th Congress, not all soviet people kept silence and in many places started demonstrations against the Congress decisions. On March 2, 1956 the demonstration of youth in Tbilisi was raked with fire of machine guns. But demonstration did not stop and covered also Rustavi, Suhumi, Batumi and other cities. Then, on March 9, 1956, tanks were used against the protesters. Mass demonstrations were cruelly suppressed. Nevertheless, mass protests took place in different places of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and even in the Baltic countries.

Discrediting Stalin

The discrediting of Stalin in the end led to the collapse of the system or ideals of the Society of the Future, because Stalin was the symbol and architect of this society. It was Khrushchev who started the deconstruction of the Soviet Union and Gorbachev and Yeltsin just finished that process. It was from the 20th Congress that the long, deadly illness of the USSR started. The most dreadful consequence of

"Khrushchev's thaw" was in deliberately undermining the people's trust in the ability to create a fair society. Not long before his death, Stalin said: "After my death, my actions and socialism will be slandered, many crimes will be arrogated to me, and people will bring a lot of garbage on my grave. But the wind of history will blow out this garbage and step by step will come new generations that will raise up the red banner that was dropped by their fathers and grandfathers. They will build their Future on our past foundation and they will thank us for all." All previous predictions of Stalin have had the ability to be fulfilled.