An appeal to Comrade Stalin on the occasion of his 50th birthday by a group of members of the CC and the Presidium of the CCC
Archive: RGASPI. F. 17. Op. 3.D. 769.L. 22-24.
Dear friend and comrade in arms!
The Central Committee and the Central Control Commission of the Leninist Party warmly greet you, the best Leninist, the oldest member of the Central Committee and its Politburo.
Fifty years of your life, more than thirty years of your active Bolshevik activity, are inextricably linked with the entire heroic struggle of our Party and with the victories of Leninism.
From the very first days of your work, as a professional revolutionary who built the first cells of the Bolshevik organization under Lenin's leadership, you showed yourself as a loyal and best student of Lenin. Of the direct disciples and associates of Lenin, you turned out to be the most persistent and consistent Leninist to the end. Throughout your entire career, you never deviated from Lenin both in your theoretical and principled positions and in all your practical work.
The harsh years of the underground, the brutal persecution of tsarism, prisons and exile tempered your steel will and revolutionary perseverance.
In the difficult years of defeats and in the years of recovery, you always remained firm and unshakable, always, together with Lenin under his leadership, you carried out a consistent Bolshevik line, with all decisiveness opposed opportunism, intellectual phrase-mongering, despondency, vacillation and open apostasy.
In the victorious days of the great October Revolution, you, in contrast to other students of Lenin, turned out to be his first closest and most loyal assistant, as the most prominent organizer of the October victory.
In the difficult days of Brest, when the fate of the revolution was being decided, you together with Lenin firmly defended the Bolshevik strategy against those opportunists who split the party, undermining Bolshevik unity under the banner of petty-bourgeois leftism.
During the Civil War, the Party sent you to organize victories on the most decisive fronts. And your name is associated with the most glorious victories of our Red Army.
Death snatched from our ranks our greatest leader and teacher, Comrade. Lenin, just in the most difficult years of the restoration of the national economy. The Party was going through difficult days. Trotskyism, hostile to Leninism, attacked the party, making attempts to seize the leadership of the party and turn it off the Leninist path. Already in the first battle with the enemies of Leninism after Lenin's death, the Central Committee rallied around you in the struggle for Leninist Party unity as the most loyal and consistent successor of Lenin's cause.
The party won a brilliant victory over Trotskyism and over the new Zinoviev-Kamenev opposition, which falsely hid behind the flag of Leninism, but in fact was the direct agent of counter-revolutionary Trotskyism.
Just as in 1923 you boldly exposed the anti-Party Menshevik essence of Trotskyism, also in 1928 you exposed the anti-Party, anti-proletarian, kulak essence of the Right deviation.
It was thanks to this that the Central Committee of the Party was able to rally around itself millions of masses, was able to successfully smash the Right deviation and carry out in practice, in practice, the general Leninist line.
Through the greatest difficulties of the restoration and reconstruction period, the Bolshevik Party led the country onto the path of a grandiose scale of socialist construction. The rapid development of the industrialization of the country and the socialist reorganization of agriculture is a vivid confirmation of Lenin's theory of the possibility of building socialism in our country, the theory that you defended in the struggle against petty-bourgeois Trotskyism.
The greatest successes of socialist construction achieved by the Party are inextricably linked with your name, with your stubborn, irreconcilable struggle for the general line of the Party.
Your name is inextricably linked with the rates of industrialization of the country unseen in the history of mankind and the decisive transfer of the countryside to the rails of a collective and large-scale socialist economy, a bold attack on the kulak, the development of socialist competition and self-criticism. You, like no one else, have combined a deep theoretical knowledge of Leninism with the ability to boldly put it into practice at various stages of the revolutionary struggle.
This helped the party to successfully cope with the most difficult historical tasks with the least expenditure of effort and time; it helped the party to preserve the real Leninist unity of its ranks.
As a true Leninist, you fought for Party unity not at the cost of concessions to opportunism, but by a bold, irreconcilable struggle against all manifestations of opportunism.
That is why the pathetic attempts of all the enemies of the Party to oppose the Central Committee to you have failed.
The enemies of Leninism have more than once had the opportunity to convince themselves that the Central Committee and Stalin are an indissoluble single Leninist whole.
Today will rally even more closely the millionth party around the Central Committee, rally the multimillion masses of the proletariat and working people around the Leninist general guise of the party for which you fought, are fighting and to which you give all your strength, energy and knowledge.
Millions of proletarians can be sure that the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party, which has in its ranks such a leader as Stalin, will lead the country to the complete construction of socialism and the victory of the proletarian revolution throughout the world.
Long live the Leninist Bolshevik Party!
Long live the iron soldier of the revolution - Comrade Stalin!
Central Committee and Central Control Commission of the CPSU (b).
21.XII.1929
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