“hody of Soviet socialist HE personality cult was an alien growth-on the healthy society, declared Pravda last In °a Jong editorial, titled “The 22nd CPSU Congress and ne Elimination of the Person- lity. Cult,” the central organ ments: that-the- cult led to a “degeneration’”’ of the Soviet System. Following is an abridged ver- - sion ofthe editorial: _ The-bold. and frank condem- nation by the Communist Party ‘and its central committee of the Stalin personality cult was of .vital uilding of communism. ° = The: elimination of the *per- - sonality cult and the overcom- 3 ing of its consequences paved _ the way for an unprecedented _ upsurge of intiative and_poli- ‘tical -and™. labor enthusiasm ~ among the: working people. All the. conditions were: pro- vided for the creative develop- ent of Marxism-Leninism. Sed in the new Program for communist construction, which was adopted by the 22nd _.Con- gress. HY RETURN. TO IT? Why did the party at its 2nd Congress return to the question. of the personality cult which it had already con- demned at-its 20th Congress? The 20th Congress, as may - berecalled, instructed the cent- ral committee to put into ef- " measures to guarantee the com- pléte elimination of the person- ality cult and its consequences in every sphere of party, gov- ernment and ideological work, and to ensure strict observance of ‘the standards of party life and the principle of collective leadership formulated by Viadimir Lenin. Hence, in its account to the 22nd Congress of its work since the 20th Congress the central committee informed the dele- gates of the great job the party has done to eliminate the harm- ful consequences of the per- Sonality cult, promote inner- rty Soviet democracy and re- €stablisn revolutionary legal- The realization of the policy charted’ by the 20th Congress WssS accompanied by a sharp Political’ struggle with am anti- Party group of factionists who ™ost zealously upheld the per- Sonality cult. It was with the direct an active participation of the Members of this group of Molo- tov, Ke ganovich and Malenkov that during the period of the alin: personality: cult, many party, government, army and XCL executives were subjected _ to repressions and unlawful re- bressive measures perpetrated in several regions and _ terri- ties of the Russian Federa- m Mon, in‘ the Ukraine, Byelorus- Sia, Georgia and Armenia, and n Leningrad. The congress hadto be told all this and it Was: ‘told. . ULE OUT REPETITION ~The arty .and_ its - central mmittee did all they could t only to wipe out complete: the consequences of the per- lity cult but ‘also to’ rule ‘any’ possible » repetition of ft mistakes. and distortion: hé Cae of the™ tei ‘of the CPSU rejects the argu importance for the This was glowingly expres- _ fect: a ‘consistent system of. Congress ana the CPSU Pro- gram provide a whole system »f measures aimed at strictly enforcing and promoting the ueninist principles of leader ship and the fundamentals of lemocracy in the life both of the party and the state. The ideologists of ir-perial- sm are making crude en- jeavors to. misrepresent the real motives of the CPSU drive against the personality cult and are screaming about “a crisis of Communism.” In some foreign publications ve again hear, just as we did sight after the 20th Congress, yeople claiming that the per- sonality cult was associated with a kind of “degeneration” of the Soviet’ system. ed and is a clumsy distortion of reality. Sometimes even some honest- -thinking people abroad, who have failed to grasp the essence of the matter and the character of socialist society, repeat the calumny of others. ism if they think they can as- cribe to one particular person change the social and political system of the Soviet Union. There have been cases in history when the old fuedal monarchist social and political regimes have been restored after bourgeois revolutions. turn to power of the classes overthrown by the revolution, and in the re-establishment in one way or another of the pre- vious economic relationship, of ownership and the like. Can this be said about the Soviet Union? Of course not. After all, grain of common sense would ever claim that due to the per- sonality cult private capitalist ownership was restored in the Soviet Union or that the land- lord and capitalist class regain- ed power. | The personality cult is ‘alien to the very nattire of socialism and the Soviet system. IN SPITE OF THE CULT. The best refutation of the falsehoods about the ‘‘degenera- ‘ion” of the Soviet system is afforded by the tremendous suecesses which the Soviet | yeople scored under the Com- munist Party’s guidance. The fact that the Soviet Union achieved these tremen- dous things in spite of the per- sonality cult demonstrates the of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Soviet people. Prom “its. veey inception Soviet society has invariably advanced along the road to socialism and communism its productive forces have multi plied and socialist relations. of production developed. The flagrant violations of the standards of party life in the practices of central organiza- tions during the time of the personality eult by no means paralyzed the activity of the. arty and the state’ in general; nor did they change: the social character of — meee | chase This is completely unfound-" They actually fall into ideal- the ability. to fundamentally This Was’ Feflected) in the \re~ nobody with aj. ersonality cult: n alien growth Despite the personality cult jemocratic principles con- tinued to operate in the repub- lican, territorial, regional and local party organizations that comprise the backbone of the}| party. Party meetings and con- ferences. were held regularly in the localities; outgoing party executives reported on past activities and new executive organs were elected. The Soviet as well as the trade unions and the YCL, car- ried ‘on extensive and multi- farious activities in the localities. The elimination of the cult as an alien growth on the sound body of. Soviet socialist society was successful precisely be- cause the Soviet social system has always _been basically 4+sound. ~~ REAL MIRACLES Though the creative en- | deavors of the working people were cramped by the order of things prevailing at the time of the personality cult real mir- acles were wrought on the construction sites of the five- year plans, on the battlefields in the Great Patriotic War, and during post-war economic re: covery. The party and the oe transformed a once economical- ly backward Russia into a mighty socialist power. Now that it has been freed from the fetters of the person- ality cult the great creative energy of the party and the people can build communism; in the USSR in what historical. ly will be a very brief span. The drive against the in- jurious consequences of the personality cult was of major | and fundamental importance for the creative development of Marxism-Leninism and the} whole of the aes ideologi- cal work. During the cult tne “work of ‘Marx, Engels and Lenin were understated. Meanwhile, every- thing that Stalin said quife of. ten things that were mistaken and damaging to both theory and practice, was quite un- deservedly extolled. Stalin’s claim that as social- ism is more successful the class | struggle will increase in inten- sity, conflicts with the teaching of Marxism-Leninism. This anti-Leninist thesis which Stalin and Molotov -pos- tulated at the central commit- tee’s 1937 Plenum was-put for- | night of socialism, the strength | Jobless total up | — so are profits! | Last. ‘February, unemploy-} ment was at a post-depres- sion high of 7.9 percent of the labor force. It has drop- ped down, according to fig- ures in the Toronto Star, to; 6.4 percent of the labor] force — a difference of 15 percent. In the corresponding | period, profits are up 20 percent from the lows | around the beginning of 1961, while stock prices are -up 13 percent and industrial S suecp oem is up six percent. 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