Bulwark of peace
and firm friend

of all who fight
to win freedom

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“Peace, bread and land!” That was
the battle-cry of the workers of Russia
led by the Communist party when 52
years ago, on November 7, 1917, they
overthrew the regime of the capitalists
and landlords in the midst of World
War I and established the Soviet Re-
public, the first state of the working
people in the world.

The first act of the new government
headed by V. I. Lenin was the Decree
on Peace. Addressed to the govern-
ments and peoples of all the belligerent
countries, it called for an immediate
cease-fire on all fronts, withdrawal of
troops from occupied territories, and
the enactment of a just peace without
_annexations or indemnity.

The imperialist powers, although for

a year yet they were at war among —

themselves, replied by military interven-
tion and aid to the old ruling classes
of Russia in an attempt to restore the
previous regime. Both the German-
Austrian armies and those of the
British-French-U.S. bloc ‘occupied vast
parts of the country, massacred revolu-
tionary workers, looted and devastated
the land.

The imperialists were defeated by the
unprecedented heroism and sacrifice of
the Soviet people, whose struggle was
aided by actions of international soli-
darity, such as the British dock work-
ers’ strike to prevent loading of arms
and the mutiny of the French sailors at
Odessa.

From the very first Lenin, the Com-
munist Party and the Soviet govern-
ment proclaimed and firmly held to the
policy of the peaceful co-existence of
states with different economic and poli-
tical systems, the settlement of all
conflicts between nations through nego-
tiations-and support to all peoples fight-
ing for their national independence and
social progress.

When finally the main powers in the
League of Nations were compelled to
permit U.S.S.R. entry, Soviet repre-
sentatives sought to make that inter-
national body actually serve peace,
urging universal disarmament, propos-
ing collective security against” the ris-
ing danger of a second. world war be-
ing precipitated by fascist Germany
and Italy, urging sanctions against ag-
gressors.

The Soviet Union in every way pos-
sible assisted the Chinese people
against the Japanese militarists, the
Ethiopian people whose country was
overrun by fascist Italy’s forces, the
Spanish people in their valiant struggle
to defend themselves against the Mus-
solini-Hitler-General Franco onslaught,
all the targets of Hitlerite aggression,
shielded and abeted by the multi-
millionaires and the governments of
Britain, France and the U.S.A.

Britain surrendered Czechoslovakia to

Hitler with the Munich Pact and France

réneged on its commitments to defend
her, but the U.S.S.R. was prepared
alone to provide military protection to
the Czechoslovakian people. The capi-
talist chiefs of that country spurned
Soviet aid, however.

Poland was next. The Soviet Union
appealed for the final joint effort that
would have prevented Hitler Germany
from conquering that country and
launching World War II. Britain and
France refused to undertake collective
action, while the reactionary clique
that ruled Poland forbade Soviet troops
to enter Polish territory to repel the
invader. The U.S.S.R. then refused to
walk into a global anti-Soviet trap, and
took measures for its own defense to
stop the war.

On June 22, 1941, Hitler launched his
“blitzkrieg” against the U.S.S.R. with
the resources of practically all Europe
and the absence of a second front for
a long time in Europe to help him. In
that epic struggle the Soviet Union suf-
fered the greatest sacrifices and made
the greatest contribution to the com-
mon cause, drove the nazi armies from
Soviet territory, helped to liberate the
countries of Central Europe and the
Balkans and the German people them-
selves from the yoke of fascism,
then smashed the Japanese occupation
troops in North China. One-third of
humanity, from the Adriatic to the
South Pacific, later joined by Cuba in
the Western Hemisphere, took the road
to socialism, the great tidal wave of
colonial liberation struggle swept over
Africa, Asia, Latin America.

The U.S.S.R. helped to found the
United Nations on the principle of the
right of every people to decide its own
social and political fate without out-
side interference, and the unanimity of
the great powers and their special re-
sponsibility for maintenance of world

:peace through the Security Council.

The Western powers, however, launch-
ed the “cold war” in an effort to turn
the clock of history back. Using atom-
ic blackmail, the U.S. took on the role of
world policeman, fashioned NATO and
similar alliances and engineered the re-
militarization of Western Germany.

While continuing to fight for peace
in the United Nations, the Soviet
Union joined with socialist Poland,
G.D.R., Hungary, Czechoslovakia and
Bulgaria in the mutual defence Warsaw
Pact, together to protect the socialist
commonwealth of nations from outside
or internal attack. The parties to the
Warsaw Pact declared they would dis-
continue if NATO were disbanded,
urged a non-aggression pact between
the two blocs as a preliminary step.

The U.S.S.R. has honorably lived up
to its internationalist obligations, help-
ing to preserve Hungary and recently
Czechoslovakia from  counter-revolu-
tionary onslaught, providing diplomatic
and material aid to peoples fighting
against imperialism, and helping the
newly freed underdeveloped countries.

Notable victories have been won. It
was in Moscow that the agreement to
cease testing nuclear weapons was
signed (although the U.S. held out to
retain underground tests). It was in
Tashkent that India and Pakistan
peacefully resolved their conflict. ‘The
U.S.S.R. was instrumental in halting
British-French-Israeli aggression on the

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Suez Canal in 1956 and is today in
the forefront of the UN effort to com-
pel Israel to give up its policy of ag-
gression and annexation of Arab terri-
tory. The Soviet Union projects and
supports proposals by other states that
go to ease tensions and guarantee
peace in various parts of the globe. It
gives full support to the Vietnamese
people in their heroic resistance to
U.S. aggression, ensuring their inevit-
able victory.

The U.S.S.R. proposal for complete
universal disarmament stands as a prac-
tical task on the agenda of the UN,
while it seeks every avenue to achieve
partial disarmament in the meantime.

In the 52 years since it was founded
the Soviet Union has proved to be a
firm bastion of peace, a reliable sup-
port of the socialist countries and all
peoples fighting for freedom, the van-
guard fighter to prevent a world nuclear
holocaust.

If this generation of Canadians is
spared the horrors of World War Ill
and if the possibility to end war for all
time is realized in practise, it will be
due first of all to the Leninist peace
policy firmly followed throughout the
years by the U.S.S.R .

Mighty economy

benefits people
and lays basis

for grand future

The economic achievements of the
Soviet people belong to the “jet age.”
Anti-communist propagandists spread
the myth that the daring changes and
innovations made in the Soviet econ-
omy were made necessary because of
errors and mistakes because “socialism
doesn’t work.”

Giving them the lie, is the construc-
tion of a modern and mighty industrial
giant which, in the brief span of 52
years is second only to, and peacefully
challenging the more-than-300-year old
United States.

Errors and mistakes there have been,
but they are not the history of the
construction of socialism. The triumph-
ant building of socialism and, now, the
construction of the base for commun-
ism, is the true history of the Soviet
peoples in this past half century.

The Communist Party of the Soviet
Union and the Soviet peoples take an
open, critical look at all their works,
and have turned this period into the
U.S.S.R.’s most interesting and inspir-
ing era.

The state of the economy of the
Soviet Union is a monument to the
vitality of socialism, and the brilliant
success of socialist planning, as well
as to the creative labors of the Soviet
peoples.

As the Soviet economy progressed
from backward to highly developed,
new problems arose, which the Soviet
Communist Party tackled in a straight-

- ing standards, the Soviet wol

; children.

forward way. Proven by life, the se

of the Soviet people to critically th ol
ine all their works was the strene
socialism, and the basis of con 4
triumphant progress. oe the
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October Revolution by the "in
peoples, is the monopoly onslaue
Canada against the people’s living § liv:
ards. In sharp contrast to dec i rs and |
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farmers are making phenomen™ aif
vances, The real incomes of W4B" jan
salary earners increased by more 66.
50 per cent between 1950 1. cong |
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pay for good work present a sustte

addition to wages and salatii™ jin
wages and salaries of almost eats
people were raised in the last ten se

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receive sick pay, pensions, rer es fo!
cal services, education and nurse?”

The scale of the projects under of
today are breath-taking and unhe?
in scope and innovation.

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crisis plaguing Canadian farmer: ao
is a substantial rise in the Sta ms
living and wealth of the soviet isto
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burden on working people, 1” “det i

only one-tenth of the Soviet yl”

made up of money paid by the F”

tion out of their incomes. jaw
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the partial abolition of taxatiOliyy
20 million Soviet people were 4 fou!
lieved from the income ta% amet
million people now pay cons! yg 1?
smaller taxes — all of which ha®

a growth of real income. —

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reflection of the considerable & ooh
and social advances made in a wet?
ist countries. At one time a a
absolute shortages, particula? Y gat
result of war. It meant the uti vel
of all productive capacity, 4” og aff
obsolete and outdated technol
methods.

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have made it possible to allow ‘pill
play of the law of value, PfO
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to the profit system of capital
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place of its own as the prince
of setting up a national econom?
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