What is Stalinism- Use of the term Stalinist in the History of USSR
The first one is the
definition and use of the term by the Trotskyite umbrella group that
combines all the revisionist, fascist, bourgeois, anti-communists under its propaganda
shade. The aim of the umbrella group is to attack socialism, Soviet
Russia, and Marxism Leninism thorough Stalin’s personality and policies. For
them Stalinism is a deviation, a “totalitarianism” etc.
The second one is made
up of those who like to be seen as “objective” and while they claim to
be anti-revisionist, they deny the terms Stalinist-Stalinism with a bourgeois
liberal , middle-of-the-road approach.Those who never forget to mention "errors of Stalin" without specifying these so-called errors and clarifying if these "errors" were related to the principles or judgements fall into this category. Some do consciously others do due to
their ignorance and lack of Soviet History. They claim that the terms “
Stalinist - Stalinism is “fabrication” of western writers and of
Trotskyites which first used during mid 1930s (supposedly by an American
Journalist)
The third one is the Marxist Leninists who see Stalinist-Stalinism as the inevitable second (yet already existing) Bolshevik Menshevik split in the Party. They see Stalinism as the application of Leninism to the conditions of Russia for the construction of Socialism while struggling against the hindrance of Mensheviks of all kind in this process.
From the time of Stalin’s election (by the way on Lenin’s motion) as the General Secretary of the Central
Committee of the CPSU at the 11th Congress of the Party (April 3, 1922) to his death (in March 1953), Stalin at the
head, the leadership of Party raised a war-torn,
feudal country to an industrialized country within 31 years (let’s
not forget the devastation of the war against the Nazis). This success was
not a coincidence but the application of Leninist theories to the
given situations and questions. These would be summarized as the
Policy of the Bolshevik faction of the Party in all spheres of life and
questions from the Party, Bureaucracy, constitution, national
question, nationality question, international question, Socialist economy, building
socialism to the transformation of nature in the country, irrigation
question etc. Application of Leninism to all these questions were
met with fierce opposition from the Mensheviks- Trotskyites. That’s why Stalinism
represents the second war against the revisionists after the revolution.
Was this inevitable? Yes.
People have the misconception that all those Mensheviks and Trotskyites have
become “Bolsheviks” overnight. People
forget the fact that they were invited to party with the minimum requirement
– that is to have a “defeatist” stand on the subject of imperialist war. Neither
Trotsky who stressed that he cannot call himself as Bolshevik, nor most of the
rest who participated in the party were
Bolsheviks. The same Bolshevik, Menshevik split kept on being existed.
As a proof to this Lenin In a 1922 article entitled “Reply to Remarks Concerning the
Functions of the Deputy Chairmen of the Council of People’s Commisars” was
saying;
Some of Trotsky’s remarks are likewise vague and
do not require an answer; other remarks made by him renew old
disagreements, that we have repeatedly observed in the
Political Bureau…
For the ones who are claimed to be “Bolshevik” by the Trotskyites
and bourgeois writers, Lenin at the Eleventh Congress Of The R.C.P.(B.) April 1922
was saying;
We are confronted by the entire bourgeois
world, which is only seeking a way in which to strangle us. Our
Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries are nothing more nor less than
the agents of this bourgeoisie. Such is their political status.
Other than the fact that after the revolution Lenin’s comment “Menshevik will always be
Menshevik and most of them should be kicked out of Party”, The second (actually extension of) Bolshevism and Menshevism split in the
party was so apparent during the discussion of Politburo of the Central Committee "On
the internal party situation” all
through 1926-1927.
See RGASPI. F. 17. Op. 163 D. 697 (uncorrected transcript); D. D. 699
(annexes to the transcripts of the meetings of the Politburo of the Central
Committee of the CPSU (b) on October 8 and 11, 1926); D. 700 (printed copy).
After Lenin’s death, Stalin became not only the leader of the Party and the Soviet Union but the acknowledged leader of the international communist movement as well.
This period coins the difference between Stalinism
(Bolshevism) and Trotskyism (Menshevism).
Stalinism refers to and is Bolshevism .Thus without
defending Stalin, Leninism cannot be defended. Stalinism is Marxism Leninism
in proven practice.
Below are the excerpts from the documents that defies the claim that
Stalinist-Stalinism was “invented” by the West, and gives a clear idea on
the first use (probably started during 1924) of the term and its context.
I tried to keep it short but not too short in order to prevent any likely
bourgeois demagogy that may state “only a few”..
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From: Transcript of the meetings of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union
Communist Party (Bolsheviks) on the issue of "On the internal party
situation." October 8 and 11, 1926
(...)
Chairman. Comrade Molotov has the floor.
Molotov ... You cannot, Comrade Smilga, under the pretext of a
"buffer", especially at this moment, openly go over to the position
of Comrade Trotsky, who sends, wherever possible, his own piece of paper in a
similar spirit under the title "Answer to Comrades' Inquiries about
Opposition" and not just "majority" and "minority" in
the Central Committee. You cannot, Comrade Smilga, under the pretext of a
"buffer", especially at this moment, openly go over to the position
of Comrade Trotsky, who sends, wherever possible, his own piece of paper in a
similar spirit under the title "Answer to Comrades' Inquiries about
Opposition"50 . This is the title of this piece of paper sent out the
other day at the request of the Central Control Commission to all members of
the Politburo. It begins with the following words: "The Stalinist faction
bases its policy of splitting the party on opposition ..." and so on. As
you can see, Comrade Trotsky actually turns out that there is no Bolshevik
Party, but there is a "Stalinist faction", with which the
true faction of Trotsky is fighting to the best of its ability. This position
was very clearly expressed in a number of opposition documents. All those
present here are well aware of this.
(...) Yes, this is a fact, contrary to custom, a document without
a date. The "Stalinist group", the "Stalinist faction",
convinces Comrade Trotsky in "Answer to Inquiries", is destroying the
party and is trying to convince someone that he is saving it. This is the
content of the "Answers to Inquiries", but in reality only one thing
can be seen from these "Answers": tremendous anger against the Party
and against the Central Committee, which is called the "Stalinist
faction." But now, after the experience with the opposition in
Moscow and Leningrad, how else can one speak of the "Stalinist faction"
and forget about the party?
Yaroslavsky. I
know that Comrade Zinoviev will say that this is not true, as he has always
denied the factional work of the opposition. ....And we will see that the
"opposition" is the apparatus of the notorious Stalinist
Central Committee, and the core of the party is us, who unite around us
everything truly proletarian, truly revolutionary, and communist.
In the hands of the Stalinist-Tomsk Central Committee, communism
degenerates into a kulak community ... of workers into the triumph of the new
Soviet philistinism
L.D. Trotsky <July
1926> Answering Comrades' Inquiries about Opposition
The Stalinist faction bases its policy of splitting the
party on opposing "Trotskyism" to Leninism and on the assertion that
the opposition in 1926 (the Leningraders) switched from the position of
Leninism to the position of "Trotskyism". It is perfectly clear to
any thinking party member that the purpose of such agitation is to divert
attention from the real disagreements caused by the apparent slide of the Stalinist faction
from the class line towards the old disagreements, which are either completely
eliminated, or have lost their acute significance, or turned out to be
imaginary.
RGASPI. F. 17. Op. 163 D. 697 (uncorrected transcript); D. 698 ; D. 699
(annexes to the transcripts of the meetings of the Politburo of the Central
Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks on October 8 and 11,
1926); D. 700 (printed copy).
From : The The Politburo meeting on September 8, 1927
(...)
Enukidze...
People who write that our state "machine is not going where the
interests of the workers and peasants require," people who write that
"the Stalinist path leads in fact to a delay in the
development of the productive forces, to a decrease in the proportion of
elements of socialism, and thereby and to prepare for the victory of the
Ustryalov way "27, people who write that "never before have the trade
unions and the masses of the workers stood so far from the management of
socialist industry as now"; people who put forward such theses that the
policy of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) was powerless to prevent: 1)
“The exorbitant growth of those forces that want to turn the development of our
country on the capitalist path; 2) the weakening of the position of the working
class and the poorest peasantry against the growing strength of the kulak, the
Nepman and the bureaucrat; 3) the weakening of the general position of the
workers' state in the struggle against world capitalism. deterioration of the
international position of the USSR ”, and if these people write all this
sincerely, then they must say that the leadership of our party, not only at the
moment, not only after they left the governing bodies, but for a very long
period, was wrong and that the country is at such a dead end, that there is no
return. If we add to this what you say that war is inevitable, that England is
preparing a war against the USSR, having a “moral mandate” for the bourgeoisie
of several countries, then it turns out that the case is completely lost, and
you have no “moral” right after that. to say that the matter is completely
fixable, and besides, it is transparently hinting everywhere that the matter is
fixable only if you become the party leader.
(...)
Kaganovich. The
actual question here is who and how will direct the preparations for the party
congress. Either the Central Committee or the opposition will lead, taking
advantage of its factionalism and relegating the role of the Central Committee
in preparing for the congress to naught. The opposition all the time stood on
the fact that there is no Central Committee, that there is a Stalinist
faction, and therefore they did not recognize it. They do it now. This
shows that after their statement on August 8, they did not retreat one iota in
their assessment of the Central Committee, they want the preparations for the
party congress not to proceed under the leadership of the Central Committee, so
that the party does not prepare for the congress in a businesslike manner, so
that the party does not solve difficult problems, who stand in front of her. On
the other hand, the opposition wants it to be able to attack the Central
Committee and the Party even more intensively.
RGASPI. F. 17. Op. 163. D. 704 (uncorrected transcript); D. 705. L.
1-144
From: Ten-day working operational report No. 49 of the GPU of the Ukrainian SSR, as of September 25, 1932, September 30, 1932
(...)
Donbass
The investigation of the Stalinist group of the
"Niza" case has been completed, and after a report at a special
meeting at the Collegium of the GPU of the Ukrainian SSR, the case will be sent
to the SPO OPTU.
F. 2. Op. 10.D. 341.L. 111-130. Certified copy
From: Report of the USSR People's Commissar of Internal Affairs NI Yezhov at a meeting of the NKVD leadership. December 3, 1936
Prior to the reorganization, the general counterintelligence functions of the
Special Department left the work of servicing the army completely in the
shadows. Therefore, again, it seems to me that an approach is needed here from
the point of view of the organizational, from the point of view of the Stalinist
formulation about eliminating the backlog of organizational work from
political tasks. Here it is necessary to say bluntly that it is necessary to do
the work of intelligence in a different way, to really do it. And we didn’t
have the strength to do it. The organizational work was organized in such a way
that the general counterintelligence work overwhelmed all work in the army. It
is therefore no coincidence that we have very few army affairs. We even
approached Trotskyist affairs in the army from the civilian side, and not from
the military, although there are Trotskyists in the army as well. I think that
we have not yet fully investigated the Trotskyist military line. I suppose that
there are not only Trotskyists in the army, but every other bastard, since the
army is not isolated from the population, is not corked in a jar where no
bacteria can penetrate, but, on the contrary, is significantly influenced by
the environment, in which there are counter-revolutionary elements. You are
well aware of the aspirations of the intelligence services of the imperialist
headquarters to create their own agents in our army, organize sabotage, etc.
(...)
CA FSB. F. 3-os. Op. 4.D. 6. L. 1-61. Copy.
From: April 25, 1937, Top secret,
MATERIALS ABOUT ORGANIZED ACTIVITIES OF THE CHURCH-SECTANT
COUNTER-REVOLUTION
After the approval of the Stalinist Constitution, the
activity of the clergy, clergy and sectarians revived in the country, aimed at
raising the religious activity of the population, and in the upcoming election
campaign they will undoubtedly try to achieve their positions in the Soviets.
(...)
Regional State Administration of the SBU. F. 16.Op. 30.D. 87.L. 105-111.
Typographical copy
From: P.V. Karamyshev. "On the methods and methods of work of fascist intelligence services and their Trotskyist-Bukharin and bourgeois-nationalist agents." June 1, 1938
(...)
The last Trotskyist Z., already mentioned by us above, set as his goal
to undermine collective farm livestock farms, for which he reduced the fodder
base of these farms, disrupted the fight against epizootics and all other
cattle diseases, deliberately delayed the construction of a regional veterinary
center, etc.
Further, the Right-Trotskyist wreckers strove with all their might to
discredit, distort, and thwart the implementation of the Stalinist
rules of agricultural labor on collective farms. artel, which is the
granite basis of the cultural and prosperous life of the collective farm
peasantry.
Yuzhnaya Pravda, June 1, 1938, no . 117
From the article “Today - all for the elections to the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR! Vote for the ardent patriots of the socialist homeland, for the candidates of the Stalinist bloc of communists and non-party people! Peter Karamyshev ". June 25, 1938
(...)
He is a real Bolshevik. Working for 10 years in the organs of the NKVD,
Karamyshev showed his loyalty to the party and the people. He ruthlessly
crushes the remnants of the sworn enemies of the socialist homeland.
Karamyshev went through a good school of education and training in the
NKVD. He accepted with honor the military traditions brought up in the organs
of the Cheka - OGPU, by the noblest knight of the revolution Felix Dzerzhinsky,
he is being brought up and studied by the Stalinist People's Commissar Nikolai
Ivanovich Yezhov.
(...)
Yuzhnaya Pravda, June 25, 1938, No. 139 .
From: P.V. Karamyshev. "On the methods and techniques of subversive work of fascist intelligence services and their Trotskyist-Bukharin and bourgeois-nationalist agents." July 10, 1938
However, no matter how subtly the Trotskyist-Bukharin and
bourgeois-nationalist agents of Polish-German and Japanese fascism were
disguised, how deeply they did not conspire with their vile subversive work, no
matter how sophisticated they were in the means and methods of espionage, sabotage,
and sabotage, they still did not escape the punishing hands of Soviet
intelligence. Having cleared of the enemy abomination - all kinds of berries,
Balitsky and their accomplices, the Soviet intelligence, headed by the glorious
Stalinist People's Commissar Comrade [arish] II. Yezhov, led by the Stalinist
Central Committee of the Party and personally by Comrade Stalin, with
the help of the multimillion Soviet people, exposed and destroyed the hornets'
nests of the Trotskyist-Bukharin and bourgeois-nationalist agents of bourgeois
intelligence and, fulfilling the will of the people, gave them what they
deserved.
Yuzhnaya Pravda, July 10, 1938, No. 151
From: Order of the NKVD of the USSR No. 00559 "On illegal arrests and detentions of citizens." September 13, 1938
To the heads of the departments of the R [aboche] -k [restyanskaya]
militia of the republics, territories and regions, the heads of the city [odes]
and district [s] departments of the RKM.
Facts of gross violation of revolutionary legality and Art. 127 of the Stalinist Constitution. Many police officers have a bureaucratic, bureaucratic attitude towards living people, during arrests and detentions they often do not understand the essence of the case, do not pay attention to the documents and testimonies of witnesses certifying the identity of the detainee, as a result of which they allow unjustified arrests, detentions and bringing of citizens.
(...)
GDA SB Ukraine, Kiev, f. 9 (orders of the NKVD USSR), ref. 190-sp, arch.
90-90 . Typographic text
From: Party characteristics of S.I. Plestsov, approved by the Bureau of the Stalinist City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks of the Novosibirsk Region. November 21, 1938
Plessov Sergey Innokentievich, 1906 year of birth, harvest. Irkutsk,
East Siberian Territory, comes from the workers, according to the social
position, a worker, a member of the CPSU (b) since 1926, has been working in
the NKVD since 1928, did not participate in the opposition, he had no
hesitation regarding the correctness of the party line.
From July 1938 he was elected a member of the plenum of the Regional
Committee of the CPSU (b) of the 1st convocation and from May 1938 he was
elected a member of the Bureau of the Stalinist City Committee of
the CPSU (b). In 1938 he was awarded the badge of an honorary security officer
by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs of the USSR.
Comrade Plessov S. I. [,] being the head of the Stalin GO NKVD since
April. 1938 [,] tirelessly waged a merciless struggle against the enemies of
the people who were operating at the Kuznetsk metallurgical plant, coal mines
and collective farms of the region. In practical work in the organs of the NKVD
and the Stalinist party organization, comrade. Plestsov showed
himself to be self-possessed, staunch, and completely devoted to the party of
Lenin-Stalin.
During the period of work comrade. Plestsov in the Stalinist
City Department of the NKVD, the largest right-Trotskyist, espionage,
and kulak counterrevolutionary nests, carrying out their vile subversive work
in the industry and agriculture of the region, were opened and destroyed.
(...)
[signature] A. MURZOV.
State Archives of the Novosibirsk Region (GANO), f. P-4, on. 18, d. 9366, l. 10. Original. Typescript
From: History of the C.P.S.U.(B) (Short Course) (1939)
FIRST RESULTS OF NEP. ELEVENTH PARTY CONGRESS
The formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics meant the
consolidation of the Soviet power and a great victory for the
Leninist-Stalinist policy of the Bolshevik Party on the national question.
OFFENSIVE AGAINST THE CAPITALIST ELEMENTS ALONG THE WHOLE LINE.
SIXTEENTH PARTY CONGRESS
In order to complete the work begun by Comrade Stalin's article in
rectifying distortions and mistakes, the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U.(B.)
decided to strike another blow at them, and on March 5, 1930, published its
resolution on "Measures to Combat the Distortions of the Party Line in the
Collective-Farm Movement."
This resolution made a detailed analysis of the mistakes committed,
showing that they were the result of a departure from the Leninist-Stalinist
line of the Party, the result of a flagrant breach of Party
instructions.
The Central Committee pointed out that these "Left"
distortions were of direct service to the class enemy.
The Central Committee gave directions that "persons who are unable
or unwilling earnestly to combat distortions of the Party line must be removed
from their posts and replaced." (Resolutions of the C.P.S.U.[B.], Part II,
p. 663.)
The Central Committee changed the leadership of certain regional and
territorial Party organizations (Moscow Region, Transcaucasia) which had
committed political mistakes and proved incapable of rectifying them.
From A letter from a former prisoner of war pilot N.N. Bukharova
about poor conditions during a state audit. February 28, 1946
MOSCOW KREMLIN
to comrade STALIN
Dear Joseph Vissarionovich!
****
Now the day of voting for the Supreme Soviet of the USSR is approaching,
there are no lists, they announced that we will not vote. I am not condemned
and out of my mind and I have no opportunity to complain. When I tried it was
kicked out with a noise, what is it? They grossly violate the Stalinist
Constitution and Soviet democracy. Who gave this right? I attach great
importance to this, annoying and insulting and undeservedly.
***
Comrade Stalin, trust me and take action.
With respect to you
Senior Lieutenant BUKHAROV.
From: Remarks on Economic Questions Connected with the November 1951 Discussion
Concerning the Errors of Comrade L.D. Yaroshenko
Comrade Yaroshenko concludes his letter to the members of the Political
Bureau with the proposal that the compilation of the "Political Economy of
Socialism" be en-trusted to him. He writes: "On the basis of the
definition of the province of die political-economic science of socialism
outlined by me at the plenary meeting, in the working panel, and in the present
letter, and utilizing the Marxist dialectical method, I could, with the help of
two assistants, work out in the space of one year, or a year and a half at
most, the theoretical solution of the basic problems of the political economy
of social-ism, that is, expound the Marxist, Leninist-Stalinist theory
of the political economy of socialism, a theory which would convert this
science into an effective weapon of the struggle of the people for
communism."
It must be confessed that modesty is not one of Comrade Yaroshenko's
failings - "even the other way round," it might be said, borrowing
the style of some of our writers.
It has already been pointed out above that Comrade Yaroshenko confuses
the political economy of socialism with the economic policy of the directing
bodies. That which he considers the province of the political economy of
socialism - rational organization of the productive forces, economic planning,
formation of social funds, etc. - is the province of the economic policy of the
directing bodies, and not of the political economy of socialism.
I say nothing of the fact that the serious blunders committed by Comrade
Yaroshenko, and his un-Marxist "opinion" do not incline one to
entrust him with such a task.
From: 19th Congress October 5-14, 1952
V.M. Molotov
Introductory speech
Some of the most prominent leaders of our party are not among us today.
Died Alexander Sergeevich Shcherbakov, who led the political work in the army
during the difficult years of the war and who is especially known to the party
as an outstanding leader of the Moscow party organization. There is no Mikhail
Ivanovich Kalinin among us, whom the whole country knew so well and our party
loved so much. Died Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov, one of the talented
representatives of the Stalinist leading nucleus of the party. We
also remember the names of other deceased friends and comrades, whose life was
inextricably linked with the party.
***
All this explains why in our days the guiding ideological influence of
our party on all aspects of the country's life has increased so much and the
love of our people for their party - for the party of Lenin-Stalin - is so
great. (Prolonged applause.)
This also explains why today its international authority is so high and
the trust and respect of the working people of other countries to our party, to
its Stalinist leadership is so great. (Stormy, prolonged
applause.)
G.M. Malenkov
Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b)
Report of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) to the XIX Party
Congress
The Great Patriotic War and the subsequent years of peaceful development
showed once again that the Soviet social system created under the leadership of
the party is the best form of organizing society, that the Soviet state system
is an example of a multinational state. Many of our enemies and ill-wishers
from the bourgeois camp endlessly insisted that the Soviet multinational state
was fragile, nurtured hope for a split between the peoples of the USSR,
prophesied an inevitable collapse of the Soviet Union. They judged our state by
their bourgeois countries, which are characterized by national contradictions
and strife. The enemies of socialism are unable to understand that as a result
of the Great October Revolution and socialist transformations, all the peoples
of our country are linked by strong friendship on the basis of complete
equality. (Applause.) Our party, unswervingly pursuing the Leninist-Stalinist
national policy, strengthened the Soviet multinational state,
developed friendship and mutual cooperation between the peoples of the Soviet
Union, supported, ensured, and encouraged the flourishing of the national
cultures of the peoples of our country in every possible way, and waged an
irreconcilable struggle against all and all kinds of nationalist elements. The
Soviet state system, which has withstood the hard trials of the war, has become
an example and model for the whole world of true equality and commonwealth of
nations, demonstrates the great triumph of Leninist-Stalinist ideas on
the national question. (Prolonged applause.) Our Party preserves and will
continue to preserve, like the apple of its eye, the unity and friendship of
the peoples of the USSR, has strengthened and will continue to strengthen the
Soviet multinational state. (Stormy applause.)
***
The Leninist-Stalinist ideas illuminate the tasks and
prospects of the struggle of the masses of the people of all countries against
imperialism, for peace, democracy, and socialism with a bright light of
revolutionary theory. (Stormy, long-lasting applause).
***
At the head of the peoples of the Soviet Union is a party tested and
hardened in battles, steadily pursuing the Leninist-Stalinist
policy. Under the leadership of the Communist Party, the
world-historic victory of socialism in the USSR was won and the exploitation of
man by man was abolished forever. Under the leadership of the Party, the
peoples of the Soviet Union are successfully fighting for the realization of
the great goal of building communism in our country. (Prolonged applause.)
V.V. Grishin, (Moscow)
Armed with the historical documents of the 19th Party Congress, headed
by the Leninist-Stalinist Central Committee, headed by the great
Stalin, the Moscow party organization, together with the entire party, will
tirelessly fight for the achievement of new victories, for the implementation
of the majestic program of communist construction.
N.S. Patolichev, (Belarusian SSR)
Comrades! The rapid revival of the national economy of Belarus after the
Patriotic War is a triumph of the Leninist-Stalinist nationality
policy, a convincing example of the correct resolution of the national
question, the problem of cooperation between nations in a multinational state.
L.G. Melnikov, (Ukrainian SSR )
The period between the 18th and 19th congresses will go down in the
history of our people as the period of the greatest triumph of
Leninist-Stalinist ideas, the policy of the Communist Party, which is the
lifeblood of the Soviet system.
***
The sons and daughters of Soviet Ukraine, together with the entire
Soviet people at the fronts, in partisan detachments, in the rear, in evacuated
factories, forged victory over the enemy, showing courage and boundless loyalty
to the party, the socialist Motherland, with honor overcoming all the trials of
the Great Patriotic War, the difficulties of construction and restoration of
the economy destroyed by the fascist barbarians.
Relying on the brilliant Stalinist teaching on the national
question, the Communist Party rallied the socialist nations of our country
into a single fraternal family.
***
The victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War, the
wise Stalinist foreign policy ensured a fair resolution of
questions about the borders of our Soviet state, as Secretary of the Central
Committee comrade Malenkov. Now Soviet Ukraine also borders in the west not
with hostile states, as it was before, but with friendly countries of people's
democracies, which are building socialism.
The entire Soviet people unanimously approves the wise foreign and
domestic policy of our Communist Party. The whole Party and the Soviet people
will meet with great unanimity the report of Comrade Malenkov's Stalinist
program for the further struggle of the Communist Party for the triumph of
the great cause of Lenin - Stalin.
Allow me to assure the 19th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party
(Bolsheviks), our great leader and teacher, Comrade Stalin, that the party
organization of Ukraine, rallying its ranks even more closely around the
Leninist-Stalinist Central Committee of the party, resolutely eliminating
shortcomings and mistakes in its work, will raise the Ukrainian people to
struggle for the further successful implementation of the Stalinist
program of building socialism in our country.
M.D. Bagirov, (Azerbaijan SSR )
Comrades! Our party came to its 19th Congress, as never before, solid
and rallied around the Leninist-Stalinist Central Committee, around
its leader, Comrade Stalin. The 19th Congress will go down in the history of
the Party and the Soviet people as a congress of building communism in our
country.
A.Yu. Snechkus, (Lithuanian SSR)
The Lithuanian people became convinced of the great strength of the Stalinist
leadership from their own experience. Thanks to the fraternal help of the
entire Soviet people, of Comrade Stalin personally, the working people of
Lithuania escaped from the yoke of capitalism, put an end to backwardness, darkness,
and humiliation forever and embarked on the bright and broad path of building
socialism.
(...)
Our party came to its 19th Congress united and monolithic, closely
rallied around the Leninist-Stalinist Central Committee, around its
teacher and leader, Comrade Stalin.
O. N. Mikhailov, (Moscow)
The Leninist-Stalinist Komsomol strives in everything to
justify the title of the faithful assistant and fighting reserve of the
Communist Party. Comrade Stalin says: “The Komsomol has always been in the
forefront of our fighters. I do not know of cases when he lagged behind the
events of our revolutionary life in our country ”.
***
Soviet, Stalinist youth is burning with the desire to devote
all their strength, mind, will to the service of the Motherland, the Communist
Party, the cause of communism - the great cause of Lenin and Stalin.
A.M. Puzanov, (Kuibyshev region)
The Kuibyshev Region, which is a part of the immense Soviet Motherland,
can serve as one of many examples of what profound transformations have been
made in our country according to the brilliant plan of Comrade Stalin, what
brilliant prospects the new Stalinist five-year plan opens up
for the country.
***
The team of builders of the Kuibyshev hydroelectric power station, full
of determination to fulfill the honorable Stalinist task with
honor, is achieving new labor successes every day.
***
The enormous work of the Party in ideally arming its members, in the
communist education of the masses, has yielded fruitful results. In our country
a new man has grown up, brought up by Lenin and Stalin, the creator and creator
of a new, communist life. The remarkable appearance of this man stands before
us from the pages of the draft of the amended Party Charter, in which the
political and moral qualities of a member of the Communist Party - the bearer
of the world's most advanced Marxist-Leninist ideology, a tireless innovator,
sober in assessing the results of his labor - are defined with Stalinist depth
and clarity, irreconcilable to shortcomings, an inspired fighter for the
victory of communism.
Ya.E. Kalnberzin, (Latvian SSR)
The working people of Soviet Latvia owe all their victories to the party
of Lenin and Stalin, which showed the Latvian people the path to victory and
confidently leads them to the shining heights of communism. The successes of
the Republic of Latvia in socialist construction are a living and vivid example
of the strength of the Leninist-Stalinist friendship of peoples.
***
During the years of the post-war Stalinist five-year plan, the
structure of industrial production in Soviet Latvia changed dramatically.
I.T. Grishin, (Stalingrad region)
Large work is being done on afforestation. If before the adoption of
the Stalinist plan for transforming nature in the region, forest
belts were planted on an area of 22 thousand hectares, but now the
plantings have been carried out on an area of 170 thousand hectares. Landings
on the state strip Kamyshin - Stalingrad, 250 kilometers long, have been
completed ahead of schedule.
Huge, downright fabulous prospects for the development of the national
economy are opening up for the southeastern region of the country in connection
with the implementation of the majestic Stalinist plan for the
transformation of nature. This plan, as we can see, is quickly being
implemented.
A.P. Efimova, (Khabarovsk region)
The period between the 18th and 19th Party Congresses and especially the
post-war period is characterized by the further development of capital
construction in the region. In the last two years alone, the volume of
investment in various sectors of the national economy has more than doubled.
This clearly testifies to the enormous attention that the party and government
are constantly giving to the economic development of the Far East. The workers
of the Khabarovsk Territory rightfully consider their land to be a gigantic Stalinist
new building.
During the years of the Stalinist five-year plans, especially
during the post-war period, the richest raw materials and energy resources were
discovered in the region, new deposits of a number of minerals were
discovered.
A.I. Mgeladze, (Georgian SSR)
The history of mankind does not know the scale of construction that
unfolded in our Soviet country. No capitalist country, including the vaunted
America, can have such gigantic structures as our great Stalinist construction
sites of communism.
***
The years that have elapsed since the 18th Party Congress have been
years of brilliant victories for the Party's Leninist-Stalinist
national policy. The Leninist-Stalinist friendship of the peoples of
the multinational Soviet Union was even more strengthened, cemented.
Long live our Leninist-Stalinist Party Central Committee!
V.M. Andrianov, (Leningrad)
The Kirov Electrosila plant created a generator for this turbine. Many
enterprises in Leningrad carry out complex and important orders for the great
Stalinist construction projects of communism.
***
The Leningrad party organization will do everything to arm every
communist with the wise Stalinist doctrine, and will mobilize
all forces and knowledge to fulfill the Stalinist plan for a gradual
transition from socialism to communism, to fulfill the tasks that will
be set by the 19th Party Congress.
J. Shayakhmetov, (Kazakh SSR)
When you take a look at the picture of the great transformations that
have turned Kazakhstan into one of the largest republics of our country, all of
us are seized by a sense of legitimate pride in our great party and its Central
Committee, which raised and mobilized the Kazakh people for such successes in
socialist labor. These facts again and again confirm the correctness and vitality
of the Leninist-Stalinist nationality policy of our party.
***
There is no doubt that the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, one of the
militant detachments of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in the
struggle to implement the historic decisions of the 19th Party Congress, will
rally even more closely around the Leninist-Stalinist Central Committee,
around the great leader and teacher, Comrade Stalin. (Applause.)
L.I. Brezhnev, (Moldavian SSR)
does not use the term
Z.I. Muratov, (Tatar ASSR )
The greatest triumph of the wise Stalinist policy of
our party and its Central Committee was the world-historical victory won by the
Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War over fascist Germany and imperialist
Japan, the liberation of the peoples of Europe from fascism and the salvation
of mankind from the threat of fascist enslavement.
In his historic speech on February 9, 1946, Comrade Stalin gave a
magnificent program of communist construction in our country, of which the
fourth Stalinist five-year plan was an integral part. The
early implementation of the fourth Stalinist five-year plan made
it possible in the shortest possible time to heal the wounds inflicted by the
enemy on our country, significantly surpass the pre-war level of development of
the national economy, increase the material well-being of the people and
further strengthen the military-economic might of the Soviet state.
***
Only after the victory of the October Revolution, on the basis of the
implementation of the Leninist-Stalinist nationality policy in
the Tatar Republic, a culture that was national in form and socialist in
content developed tremendously.
L.P. Beria
The national policy of our party is based on a harmonious,
scientifically grounded theory of the national question, as part of the
Leninist teaching on the proletarian revolution. Lenin and Stalin are the
creators of the program and policy of the Communist Party on the national
question. Therefore, our national policy is called Leninist-Stalinist. The
national policy of our party is warmly approved and unanimously supported by
the peoples of the Soviet Union.
As a result of the consistent implementation of the Leninist-Stalinist
nationality policy in our country, the actual inequality in economic
and cultural development inherited from tsarism between the peoples of Central
Russia that went ahead and the peoples of the outskirts that lagged behind them
in the past has been eliminated in our country.
***
The Communist Party and the Government of the Soviet Union, consistently
pursuing the Leninist-Stalinist national policy, along with the
high level of development of the entire national economy of the USSR, ensured a
more rapid development of the economically backward national republics.
***
In the Soviet republics, during the Stalinist five-year plans,
the metallurgical, oil and chemical industries were re-created, large power
plants, factories for the production of agricultural machines, tractors and
automobiles, cement plants, large textile and food factories and many other
industrial enterprises were built.
***
As a result of the implementation of the Leninist-Stalinist
nationality policy, the peoples of the Soviet Union carried out a
genuine cultural revolution.
***
The peoples of our country have shown to the whole world what a mighty
and indestructible force the Soviet socialist multinational state, based on
the Stalinist friendship of peoples, possesses.
***
Our Party and the entire Soviet people greeted this Stalinist
program with the greatest enthusiasm.
V.E. Chernyshev, (Kaliningrad region)
The working people of the Kaliningrad region, led by the regional party
organization, rallying their ranks even more closely around the Central
Committee of the party and our dear leader and teacher, Comrade Stalin, will
successfully cope with the tasks of economic and cultural development. We will
tirelessly, without sparing our forces, fight for the early fulfillment of the
fifth Stalinist five-year plan, for the might of our
Fatherland to grow stronger, so that our Soviet Motherland flourishes and
riches, so that the life of our people will be even happier and happier,
confidently walking along the path to communism. We will continue to vigilantly
stand guard over the western borders of our Fatherland.
N.V. Kiselev, (Rostov region)
The Soviet people, under the leadership of the party, Comrade Stalin,
during the pre-war Stalinist five-year plans, as a result of the
successful implementation of the policy of socialist industrialization and
collectivization of agriculture, turned our country from a backward into an
advanced one, from an agrarian to an industrial one.
***
In the post-war years, under the leadership of the party, our country,
having successfully completed the fourth Stalinist five-year plan, is
developing the socialist economy and culture
A.I. Niyazov, (Uzbek SSR )
As a result of the unswerving implementation of the wise Leninist-Stalinist
nationality policy, industry, agriculture, and culture of the Soviet
republics gained mighty development during the Stalinist five-year
plans.
***
A remarkable achievement of the Leninist-Stalinist nationality
policy is the creation of numerous national cadres capable of
successfully solving practical problems of economic and cultural development.
B. Gafurov, (Tajik SSR)
Under the banner of the party of Lenin-Stalin, the moral and political
unity of Soviet society was further strengthened, the Stalinist friendship of
the peoples of the Soviet Union developed and strengthened.
***
As a result of the implementation of the Leninist-Stalinist nationality policy,
as a result of the growing friendship and mutual assistance of the peoples of
the USSR, as a result of the constant concern of the Central Committee of the
All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), personally Comrade Stalin for the
prosperity of all the peoples of the Soviet Union, large and small, we do not
have a single national a republic, an autonomous national region, a national
district, wherever the socialist economy and the socialist in content, national
in form culture have not developed at a rapid pace.
N.M. Pegov
Comrades! The composition of the delegates shows that the party
organizations elected to the 19th Party Congress the best, most active members
of our party, those who heroically fought for the freedom and independence of
our Motherland during the Great Patriotic War and are selflessly working to
implement the great Stalinist program of building the
foundation of communism in our country. (Applause.)
N.I. Belyaev, (Altai region )
We live in a happy Stalinist era, in the era of the
victorious building of communism. We have had the great happiness to live,
fight and win under the direct guidance of the brilliant theoretician, the
greatest strategist Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin! (Stormy applause.)
***
Comrades! The Altai party organization, which has 78 thousand communists
in its membership, came to the 19th Congress of the Communist Party as a
united, united, and endlessly devoted to the Leninist-Stalinist Central
Committee of the party, the great Stalin.
F.M. Prass, (Molotov region)
With heartfelt gratitude to Comrade Stalin, the working people of the
Urals call their fertile land the Stalinist Urals.
***
Comrade Malenkov, in his report, on the basis of brilliant Stalinist
ideas, gave us a detailed program of work for the building of communism. We
will march in close ranks along the glorious path of communist construction. No
forces will deviate us from this path because we are people of the Stalinist
era, because our movement is headed by the great Stalin.
A.N. Egorov, (Karelo-Finnish SSR)
Wherever you look at the vastness of our vast Motherland, outstanding
great transformations, the mighty growth of Soviet people are visible
everywhere and everywhere. The unprecedented scale of peaceful economic
construction is embodied in the Stalinist construction projects of
communism on the Volga, Dnieper, and Amu Darya.
N.G. Ignatov, (Krasnodar region )
The collective farm peasantry saw in the Stalinist idea of
enlarging collective farms the right path to a new flourishing of
collective farm life.
A.E. Korneichuk, (Ukrainian SSR )
Let me convey from the depths of the heart of the Ukrainian people
ardent love and eternal gratitude to the creator of our invincible strength,
whose name is the sacred, indestructible Stalinist friendship of
peoples - to the great leader, teacher and friend of the Ukrainian
people, Comrade Stalin! (Prolonged applause.)
***
How the dreams of the greatest writers and figures of past eras fade
before the truly great humanism of the fundamental economic law of socialism,
discovered by the genius of Comrade Stalin! And ordinary people around the
world will call this law the great Stalinist law of life.
I.R. Razzakov, (Kyrgyz SSR)
Comrade Beria in his bright speech convincingly showed what tremendous
successes all our national republics, all our socialist nations have achieved,
thanks to the steady implementation of the Leninist-Stalinist national
policy of the party, thanks to the inviolable friendship and fraternal commonwealth
of all Soviet peoples.
***
Significant shortcomings were also revealed in the field of ideological
work. The party organization of the republic is taking serious measures to
drastically improve this work, to strengthen the education of the working
people in the spirit of Leninist-Stalinist internationalism, life-giving
Soviet patriotism.
A.M. Vasilevsky, (Moscow)
The pre-war Stalinist five-year plans laid the
foundation for our victory, strengthened our Soviet social and state system,
our Armed Forces and made it possible to win one of the most difficult wars
ever experienced by our Motherland.
***
The Stalinist strategy in the Great Patriotic War was
distinguished by wisdom, depth of strategic intentions, remarkable penetration
into the plans and plans of the enemy, decisiveness in setting goals and
mobilizing all the possibilities for achieving them.
***
The successful implementation of the fourth Stalinist five-year
plan made it possible to equip all branches of the Soviet Army with
new modern weapons, which in their qualities significantly exceed the weapons
of the Soviet Army during the Great Patriotic War, which radically changed the
face of the Army as a whole.
The combat training of the Soviet Army is carried out on the basis of
the guiding Stalinist principle - to teach the troops what is
required in war.
Boleslav Bierut, (Polish United Workers' Party)
It is a force that transforms hundreds of millions of people,
transforming even previously backward peoples into advanced, socialist peoples.
It is a force that forms a new, reborn human society, condemning all oppression
and exploitation of man by man, a force whose ultimate goal is the destruction
of all tyranny, the establishment of peace and brotherhood between peoples
forever. This is a new and incomparable victorious and immortal ideological
force of the great Stalinist era. (Applause.)
***
The new Stalinist five-year plan raises even higher in
the working masses of the whole world the consciousness of the righteousness of
their cause, faith in its victory.
***
This document will become for all fighters for communism a model of
dedication, fighting efficiency, selfless devotion to a great cause and a great
idea, which is proclaimed by the advanced social science - Marxism-Leninism,
which the new, Stalinist era has put forward before humanity.
M.Z. Saburov
Chairman of the State Planning Committee of the USSR
Our country has a powerful production apparatus, created during the
years of the Stalinist five-year plans, equipped with advanced technology, as
well as numerous cadres of skilled workers and engineers and technical workers
with rich experience.
In the fourth five-year plan, the implementation of the grandiose Stalinist
plan for the transformation of nature in the steppe and forest-steppe
regions of the European part of the Union began.
A.B. Aristov, (Chelyabinsk region)
The peoples of our great Motherland by their daily practical deeds
increase the power of their Fatherland. There is no Soviet person who would not
want to work better and better in order to receive a high - Stalinist
assessment of his work.
***
The strength of the Stalinist Urals lies in its wonderful personnel, in
its people, deeply devoted to their Motherland, their native party, their great
friend, the creator of the second coal and metallurgical base in the East -
Comrade Stalin. (Applause.)
Clement Gottwald, (Communist Party of Czechoslovakia)
We wish great success to the 19th Congress of the glorious
Lenin-Stalinist All-Union Communist Party of the Bolsheviks! (Prolonged
applause.)
S. Babaev, (Turkmen SSR)
Before the Great October Socialist Revolution, Turkmenistan was one of
the most backward regions of tsarist Russia, had no industry. During the years
of Soviet power, thanks to the Leninist-Stalinist nationality policy and the
invaluable help of the great Russian people, the Turkmen SSR turned into one of
the most advanced Soviet socialist republics with developed large-scale
industry and socialist agriculture, equipped with advanced Soviet
technology.
D.S. Korotchenko, (Ukrainian SSR )
This historic document reflects the great Stalinist concern of
the Communist Party and the Soviet Government for the further
strengthening of our beloved Motherland, for the all-round development of the
economy and culture of all fraternal republics of the great Soviet Union.
O.N. Bulganin
In the pre-war years, as in the present, the main efforts of our people
were directed at peaceful construction. The Soviet Union firmly and
consistently pursued a peaceful foreign policy. At the same time, our party has
never forgotten about the threat of war, about the intrigues of the
imperialists and under the wise Stalinist leadership it
prepared the country and the army for active defense. The preparation
consisted, first of all, in the creation of such material capabilities that, in
the event of war, could ensure the rapid organization of military production
and the uninterrupted supply of the army and the population with food, and
industry with raw materials. Our party solved this difficult task with the help
of the policy of industrialization of the country and collectivization of
agriculture during the three pre-war Stalinist five-year plans. It
was during these years that the historical transformation took place, as a
result of which our formerly agrarian country became an industrial country.
***
In the draft directives for the fifth five-year plan, as in all previous
five-year plans, the Leninist-Stalinist national policy of our
party finds its concrete expression, with the aim of strengthening friendship
between peoples, further, even greater economic and cultural flourishing of all
union republics.
A.I. Mikoyan
In the new Stalinist work on the economic problems of socialism in the
USSR, this treasury of ideas, the basic economic law of socialism and the basic
economic law of modern capitalism, discovered by Comrade Stalin and clearly
formulated, are of particular importance.
***
As a result of the implementation of the Stalinist policy of
lowering prices over the past five years, the general level of prices for
consumer goods in the USSR has decreased by 50 percent, that is, by half.
A.F. Zasyadko, (Moscow)
The party pays great attention to the development of the coal industry.
The Stalinist five-year plans transformed the coal industry
and created conditions for its further rapid development.
D.G. Smirnov, (Gorky region)
During the years of the Stalinist five-year plans, the city
of Gorky turned into one of the largest industrial and cultural centers of our
country. The government from year to year increases allocations for the
development of the city economy, for the further serious expansion of the cultural
and social construction of the city. Retail turnover has significantly expanded
in the region. Compared to the pre-war level, the sale of butter, meat, sugar,
fish products, etc. to the population has increased significantly.
V.A. Malyshev, (Moscow)
The Great Patriotic War demanded a radical restructuring of all
industries, especially machine-building plants, and the subordination of their
work to the needs of the front. The domestic machine-building industry created
during the years of the Stalinist five-year plans, during the war,
ensured a complete and uninterrupted supply of all types of weapons and
military equipment to the Soviet Army.
U. Yusupov, (Moscow)
Under capitalism in any country, after such upheavals that our country
suffered during the Second World War, irrigated agriculture would have fallen
into complete decline. In our country, under the conditions of a socialist
state, irrigated agriculture not only has not declined, but is in a state of
steady rise. It will receive even greater development in connection with the
implementation of the Stalinist plan for irrigation and watering of
lands in the USSR.
A.N. Kosygin, (Moscow)
The wise Stalinist policy of the party ensured the
powerful development of heavy industry in socialist agriculture in the country,
and on this basis - the all-round development of all branches of light industry
and a continuous increase in the production of consumer goods.
I.F. Tevosyan, (Moscow)
The directives on the fifth five-year plan, submitted by the Central
Committee of the party for consideration by the congress, are fully based on
the Stalinist program of building the foundation for
communism, provide for a new powerful rise in the national economy and a
further significant increase in the material well-being and cultural level of
the people.
Enver Hoxha, (Albanian Labor Party)
The congress of the great party of Lenin and Stalin is a huge historical
event not only for the peoples of the Soviet Union, but also for all the
peoples of the world. The congress will sum up the results of the brilliant
victories, outline the tasks of the new Stalinist five-year plan,
which will be a big new step along the path of the gradual transition of the
Soviet Union from socialism to communism.
N.S. Khrushchev
Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b)
The successes that our country has achieved were due to the fact that the party tirelessly carried out great organizational work among the masses to implement the brilliant Stalinist plans.
A.N. Poskrebyshev, (Moscow)
Comrade Stalin teaches that the protection of socialist property is one
of the main functions of our state. The Soviet law strictly punishes the
plunderers of public goods. The Stalinist Constitution says
that those who encroach on socialist property are enemies of the people.
Sources as stated
Mostly from the 14 Volumes of " Transcripts from the Soviet Archives"
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