pins were rising from the
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theorereenization of a wide

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ey eatin the necessary re-
Ae c*Peng; oe extremely intri-
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DAS, 8d in th he hydrogen bomb
Aly. the Unit, Soviet Union earli-
( Mon tha Ae States. Many in
yn Rd by cally in the USA,

With over 20 million
dead in the war, the
Soviet people
restored their
country. which had
been devastated by
the Nazi invaders,
Destroyed: 1,710
cities and towns,
70,000 villages,
31,850 industrial

enterprises;

750 machine tool
plants, 60 power

stations and iron and
steel mills,

40,000 miles of railway
56,000 miles of roads,
98,000 collective
farms,

1,870 state farms.

viet Union of being aggressive. This
concern, from the point of view of the
danger, it might present for the USA
or for the cause of universal peace
was, however, entirely in vain. On the
contrary, the fact that the Soviet Union
became a nuclear power, thus depriv-
ing the USA of its monopoly in weap-
ons of mass annihilation once and for
all, radically changed the international
situation in favor of the peace-loving
forces and considerably (if not com-
pletely as yet) reduced the danger of
employing atomic and hydrogen weap-
ons by the potential aggressor.

In the period from the mid-forties
to the mid-fifties, Soviet scientists
achieved outstanding results in the
sphere of rocket construction and in
preparation for the exploration of outer
space. The successes in these fields
were so great that already in August
1957 the world’s first intercontinental

ballistic missile was tested, and in Oc-

tober of the same year the earth’s first
man-made satellite was launched. The
next epic landmark in this sphere—the
launching of the first man, Yuri Gaga-
rin, into the vast spaces of the cosmos
(April 1961)—was the natural result of
the effort exerted by Soviet scientists
and engineers in the whole postwar

period.
Joseph Stalin died on March 5, 1953.

The death of the man who had a great,
and’at times the decisive, influence on
the entire policy of the Soviet Union
could not pass unnoticed. As many re-

. call, it evoked extraordinary reaction

both at home and abroad. In particular,
there existed the opinion (especially
widespread in the West) that the death
of Stalin would lead to the consterna-
tion of the Soviet leadership and dis-
turbances within the country, cause a
“struggle for power,” etc.

As events showed, no such crisis
took place in the USSR though, of
course, the transitional stage could not
be very simple. The main political sig-
nificance of the events of those years
is that the Communist Party and its
Central Committee were up to the mark
and showed themselves quite mature
political forces.

After Stalin’s death the central lead-
ing bodies of the party and the state
returned to the Leninist principles of
collective activities, which had been
violated in the last years of Stalin's
life. These democratic; socialist princi-
ples began to be consistently introduc-
ed throughout the country.

A deep process of sweeping away
everything superficial that came into
practice during the personality cult
period took place in the activities of
the party and the life of the country.

November 4, 1967 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE — Page KWece

The 20th Congress of the Communist
Party (February 1956), which was of

‘tremendous fundamental significance in

the history of the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union, gave an exhaustive
political assessment of the cult as a
phenomenon organically alien to Marx-
ism-Leninism and socialism. The Con-
gress explained the reasons for its rise
and defined the direction in which the
party and the country were to develop
in the future. The 20th Congress declar-
ed that never again will the personality
cult return to the USSR. Thé party
will always guarantee collective leader-
ship and the strict adherence to Lenin-
ist standards.

It must be stated that the Communist
Party is adhering to this line of the.
20th Congress as a mater of great prin-
ciple.

The 20th Congress of the CPSU initi-
ated a new era in the history of the
Soviet Union. The successes scored by
the Soviet people in the development
of the national ‘economy and _ their
achievements in science and technology
are unquestionable. And the foreign
policy of the Soviet Union in these
years is quite fruitful. All this took
place on the basis of the efflorescence
of socialist democracy as a result of
the eradication of the consequences of
the cult.