Brezhnev at Polish congress

standards of the working people
in those countries are rising.
Cooperation. between different
socialist states is extending and
their alliance with the inter-
national revolutionary forces is

other military actions against
the entire territory of the Demo-
cratic Republic of Vietnam.
That is a great victory won by
the socialist camp and all the
peaceloving forces of the world,
as the Vietnamese people them-
selves admit. The other example
cited by Leonid Brezhnev is that
of the German Democratic Re-
public, which also proves the
strength of socialist solidarity.

It is clear to everyone that
the successful socialist construc-
tion under the complicated con-
ditions the G.D.R. is finding
itself in is indissolubly linked
up with the active support and
solidarity from the other social-
ist countries with the extensive
economic cooperation, with our
military alliance.

No one will deny the exist-
ence of sizeable difficulties in
the socialist construction in dif-
ferent countries. There occur
some errors in the solution of
this or that task or problem.
But how do real communists
with deep convictions respond
to such difficulties and certain
individual _ failures? Genuine
communists confidently go right
ahead all the way, searching for
the best possible solutions to
the problems arising, relying on
socialist gains, on the indisput-
able advantages of the socialist
system, while agents of a petty
bourgeois trend at times tend
to be hysterical and begin to
question and doubt everything
and all. These are revisionists
who are ready to give up all
positions of principle. That is
precisely the sort of people im-
perialists "are in search of in the
socialist countries in their at-

tempts to make them return to
capitalism.

“Socialist states: are all for a
loyal respect for the sovereign-
ty of all countries,” said Leonid
Brezhnev. The Soviet Union did
a lot to really strengthen the
sovereignty and independence
of the socialist countries.

It sometimes happens that a
unanimous rebuff on the part of
socialist countries to the at-
tempts of the enemies of peace
to infringe upon the sovereign-
ty of some socialist country
arouses a provocative hue and-
cry of bourgeois propagandists
on “defending the sovereignty”
of a country thus endangered.
That @ out and out deception
and demagogy. In reality those
who raise this hue and cry are
worrying about destroying so-
cialist sovereignty rather than
about its preservation. And
should the cause of socialism be
threatened in a country like that
and the security of the entire
socialist community be endang-
ered, it becomes not only a pro-
blem for the people of this par-
ticular country, but a common
problem for all the socialist
countries.

“Let all those who are inclin-
ed to forget the lessons of his-
tory and who would like to
engage again in recarving the
map of Europe know that the
frontiers of Poland, the German
Democratic Republic, Czecho-
slovakia, just aS any other
member-country of the Warsaw
Treaty, are immutable and in-
violable. These frontiers are de-
fended by the entire armed
might of the socialist_commun-
ity.”

“SUCCESSES OF SOCIALISM

The speaker emphasized that
the reactionary, aggressive pol-
icy of the imperialist states is
opposed by the socialist coun-
tries with their own policy —
flexible and realistic, relentless
with regard to aggressors and
revenge-seekers, a policy of sup-
porting all the revolutionary
forces the world over. At the
same time this policy defends
the principles of peaceful co-
existence.

Highlighted in Leonid Brezh-
nev’s speech were questions of
unity between the Communist
and working class movemcnt,
which will be further extended
by the speediest convocation of
an international conference of
Communist and Workers’ Par-
ties. Leonid Brezhnev censured
both the “right-wing” and the
“left-wing” adventurism in cer-
tain sections of the communist
movement, all forms of revision-
ism, chauvinism, national nar-
row-mindedness, as well as all
attempts to replace the indom-
itable foundations of Marxism-
Leninism with all sorts of cheap
theories of some “special” “nat-
ional” communism.

“Our Party highly values the
contribution of the Polish Com-
munists to the strengthening of
friendship between the peoples
of the Soviet Union and the
Polish People’s Republic. Our
achievements in this field are
the result of sincere trust be-
tween our Parties and the peo-
ples, the result of the practical
implementation of the principles
of socialist internationalism. It

is internationalism in action.”
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Roads vary towards one goal

getting ever stronger. Their de-
fense has become really mighty.
Leonid Brezhnev went on to
point out the following feature
of the present-day international
situation: the imperialists no
longer venture to launch a mili-
tary attack against the socialist
community for fear of being
routed. It stands to reason that
the danger of war will exist as
long as imperialism exists. How-
Th ever, today the imperialist
B € speech made by Leonid leaders have chosen different
by * feettey, head of the Commun- and more perfidious tactics —
1 bot qd Party of the Soviet Union’s they are searching for the weak-
irs flegation, at the Fifth Con- est elements in the socialist
| §8fss of the Polish United front, they are trying to drive
utiod |g orkers’ Party now in session a wedge between the countries
was N Warsaw, is one of the major of socialism, SOW discord be-
akers Recaurses dealing with the tween them so as to try and
Most i fory and practice of commun- strangle them one by one.
9 joil Sm in the past few years. The Solidarity among the socialist
pub: Speaker dwelt on the pressing countries is a powerful blow
es and acute problems of the against any new imperialist
nstt® Working class movement, as schemes and machinations.
kK and Well as the further extension of Their solidarity already wins re-
pm” ely relations and cooper- markable victories. Two instanc-
ion between the countries of es of such victories are evident.
ass © Socialist community. One of them is Vietnam. The
yak Ps World revolutionary process active and effective aid and sup-
ndiat . making irrepressible head- vort coming from the Soviet
child ay, centering round the strug- Union and other socialist coun-
; and} le between socialism and capit- tries has helped the people of
st 9} “lism—the two basic social the Democratic Republic of
, the | S¥stems of our age.” Vietnam to hold out through the
side pone General Secretary of the many years of struggle against
€ntral Committee of the CPSU the armed forces of the most
el 2 Aalysed the historical success- powerful imperialist state. The
p at’ | ~®S of the socialist system. The heroic people of Vietnam forced
e a Honomy in the socialist coun- the American ruling circles to
ie ties is. advancing, the living stop the bombings and any
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“NPP} Pol; ifth Congress of the see the use of parliaments OF
yy the ish United Workers Party other institutions of bourgeois
¢is| “tered its second day with dis- democracy in building a broad
, 08 Cussion of the report of the alliance between commun ey
KIC Centr : "and various —anti-imperialis",
aif] tary Bee pila he democratic and peace-loving ele-
ity wy Congress also heard fraternal ments. The roads to socialism
ge 8reetings from Soviet Commun- can and should vary. A
Ist party secretary Leonid “But there is only one social-
3rezhnev on behalf of 13.5 mil- ism. Its essence 1s rule by the
lion Soviet Communists. working masses, under the hege-
Teadditi ton-th ye mony of the working class, and
Comm eee 2 t i S a a planned economy of socialized
delegates ne ee i Som means of production.
Cirani ree a = ee “The roads mapped out by
is fr pos Orkers one party or proper for one of
ae aoe parties and invited the countries building socialism
cif} ae ee Spee cnee ey C. cannot be imposed on other par-
i the tra] Dna rss pe eet ties and countries. They can and
col" should however be a source fo)
s on peent.-party; Jan Kar oe experience for every party fight-
| ti eee ree ee ae ay ene ing for power or building a new
u committee of the Demo- : F t
| ‘Tatic party; Adam, Dolinski, ae oe Se anon
yanc@! Chairman of the central auditing e-dgpored. and Fees aual pat
“com? Commission of the PUWP; and detriment to the individual pa
“gia ward Glérew.. first SROaIAr ties and the whole working-class
it al Of the cies ton eriek said movement... os
cre Mittee eM bd igs “All the Communist parties 1n
Maic : : the capitalist countries have
xe ae questions raised by Go- their own strategy and tactics
Poo) unit: aS report concerned the resulting from the conditions In
asi eae of the international work- which they work. They cannot,
: ne class movement, and the however, demand that the fra-
rat a and tasks of the Polish ternal parties in power and
ete : : : ili
Bt ao not deny” sad Go- forthe, gevcopment ond
eri mulka, “that the conditions in strength of their countries and
1) moh) me developed capitalist coun- of the, entire socialist system,
ee in ewhich the fraternal par- should-adapt their political line
a 1€s ares waging their struggle, to the; policy pursued by the

Communist parties in the west-
ern countries at a given mo-
ment, to the tactics used by
them in the struggle they are
waging against the bourgeoisie
to lead their countries onto the
road of socialist transforma-
tions. This is neither right nor
possible.

“Extension of the rights and
liberties of the working-class
and the working masses within
the framework of the system of
bourgeois democracy, restric-
tion or expropriation of capital-
ist monopolies and other similar
demands for which the Com-
munist parties in the West are
fighting, are undoubtedly in line
with the struggle for socialism.
But transplantation of the con-
tent of bourgeois democracy on-
to the organism of socialist
democracy would constitute a
revisionist deformation of so-
cialism and would open the way
capitalist transformation in a
socialist country.

“A realistic assessment of the
difficult and complex situation
in which the international com-
munist movement finds itself to-
day, leads one to the conclusion
that the process of overcoming
the present divergencies will be
a long and difficult one. Our
party is in favor of a frank,
open discussion in the Commun-
ist movement and is of the opin-
ion that problems that divide us
and set us apart should not be
passed over in silence. ;

5

“Following the events of the
last few months such discussion
has in fact developed. The pro-
blem now is to conduct it in a
way promoting unity of action
and to lay the main stress on
those problems which link the
fraternal Communist and Work-
ers parties in spite of the exist-
ing ideological and political dif-
ferences.”

In the final section of his
speech, Gomulka said that since
the 4th congress over 700,000
new members were admitted,
almost half up to 25 years of
age.

Gomulka said, ‘People who
join our ranks are in the major-
ity not yet full-fledged Commun-
ists in the ideological sense.
They are still encumbered by
some world outlooks and ideo-
logical prejudices formed under
the influence of the previous
capitalist epoch.”

This increases the importance
of ideological work, Gomulka
said.

He dealt with the  short-
comings in this sphere, one
source of which is too one-sided
concentration on economic pro-
blems.

“Capitalism still continues to
act upon the consciousness of
wider strata of the citizens of
our country . . . The objective
premises for that influence stem
from the fact that the highly
developed capitalist countries
still have a superiority over the

socialist countries in some fields
of the economy.

“The wealth of these coun-
tries, their high economic base
and high standard of civilization
have been achieved in the
course of several centuries at
the expense of the blood and
toil of colonial peoples, as a
result of the exploitation of
their own working masses and
those of other, poorer nations,
including the Polish nation.

“As long as that difference
persists, and it should be ex-
pected that it will persist for
some time yet, there will be
people in our country for whom
a comparison between the level
of development of our country
and that of the highly developed
capitalist countries will be
ground for doubts about the
superiority of socialism.”

Gomulka then went on to
point out that the certain eco-
nomic superiority does not mean
that capitalism as a world sys-
tem has historical perspectives.
He reviewed the rise of the first
socialist state 50 years ago and
the development of socialism
since. Only socialism, he said,
has abolished the exploitation
of man by man, and nation by
nation and provides a prospect
for the development of mankind
without aggression and war,
that shows the real road to a
peaceful future for the world.

' —Daily World

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