By STEPAN MOKSHIN

(Candidate of Sciences, USSR)

The October socialist revolu-
tion, which triumphed in Russia
54 years ago, marked a great
change in the life of all man-
kind.

It was not merely a Russian
revolution. The workers’ revo-
lution of Nov. 7, 1917 opened
the way to the liberation of the
Oppressed throughout the world
and marked a victcrious turn of
nations from capitalism to lib-
erty and progress, a process
under way to this day. This is
the road of overcoming the old
world, which never retreats from
its: positions without combat.

The building of socialism was
not an easy task for us since we
were the pioneers. We had no-
body to learn from. The Com-
munist Party and the Soviet
people were the first to blaze
the trail to socialism. In our 54-
year history, more than 20 years
were spent on wars unleashed
by imperialist forces against us
and on the restoration of our
war-ruined economy.

Looking back from the sum-
mit reached by our country to-
day it is not hard to see some
miscalculations and errors we
made in the past. However, what
we have attained insfills us all
with pride and optimism. Judge
for yourselves. The Soviet share
in the world industrial output
has grown from one of the low-
est in Europe to second place in
the world. And so far as.demo-
cracy, education, culture, health
and living standards are con-
cerned, they cannot be measur-
ed in figures.

Take the question of demo-
cracy.

The 24th CPSU Congress held
last March mapped the political
course for the further steady
deepening of democratization in
Soviet public and state affairs.

The Soviet state now acts as
a political organization of the
entire people called upon to se-
cure civil rights and freedoms
for all whose task is to work for
the continued improvement of
the political consciousness of
the citizens, so that their ability
to solve social problems would
grow. Every encouragement is
given to public discussions and
meetings, to comparison of dif-
ferent views and concepts in
order to achieve a more thor-
ough solution of problems con-
cerning socialist development.

V. 1. Lenin, the founder of the
Soviet state, with Yakov Sverdlov,
the first president of Soviet Russia
at the celebration of the first an-
niversary of the revolution on
Nov. 7, 1918 in Petrograd (now
Leningrad). ***

The freedom of opinion, guar-
anteed by the Soviet constitu-
tion and ensuring the freedom of
thought, together with the strug-
gle against hostile ideology is an
indispensable element of the
development of socialist demo-
cracy. For Communists, the ad-
vocates of the most humane
ideals, this is a matter of prin-

ciple, as Leonid Brezhnev
stressed at the 24th CPSU Con-
gress.

At the same time the oppor-
tunities for working people to
take part in the running of so-
ciety are expanding and the role
of voluntary associations and
unions is growing in the system
of the political organization of
developed socialist society
(trade unions, youth organiza-
tions, cooperatives, unions of
writers, artists, workers in cul-
ture and the arts, etc.).

The presence in our country
of numerous union, public or-
ganizations and other democra-
tic establishments enable all
sections and groups of socialist
society to express their particu-
lar interests. The Communist
Party and the Soviet state skil-
fully combine them with the
common vital interests of the
entire Soviet people.

For the first time in the his-
tory of mankind the prophetic

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words of the “Internationale’—
“and labor shall rule the world”
—have been realized in the Sov-
iet socialist society. One-third
of humanity has taken the road
of socialism. The emergence and
strengthening of the world so-
cialist system has proved a pow-
erful impetus of historical pro-
gress started by the 1917 Revo-
lution. Colonialism has collaps-
ed. The working class in the ad-
vanced capitalist countries is
gaining strength. The interna-
tional Communist movement is
in the van of the revolutionary
forces.

A great path has been tra-
versed by Communists in the
past half a century. The number
of Communists in the world has
grown 120-fold. In 1917 there
were a few hundred thousand
Communists, whereas today
there are tens of millions of mili-
tants in 88 Communist and
workers’ parties. Hundreds of
millions of people are marching
ahead under the banner of Com-
munism.

The Communists have achiev-
ed all this largely because they
have always been acting as an
international force, in a united
front, jointly mapping out the
strategic line of the Communist
movement. The success of such
an approach could be ensured,
as practice demonstrates only
by strictly adhering to the prin-
ciples of Marxism-Leninism and
proletarian internationalism, by
applying democratic methods in
evolving joint estimates and
conclusions, and guaranteeing
every fraternal ‘party full par-
ticipation in this evolvement on
the principles of full equality
and mutual responsibility.

Due to such an approach and
a patient comparison of points
of view it has largely become
possible to overcome differences

Premier Kosygin came

By SAM WALSH

The problems of unemploy-
ment, of health, of national in-
equality existed before the visit
of Kosygin. They remain after
his departure. But the visit has
nevertheless changed things.

On examination, one can ob-
serve in the visit the difficult
path that, once embarked upon,
can lead us to the highway to
the solution of these problems.

Premier Bourassa of Quebec
was right when he said the tech-
nological, scientific and cultural
exchanges envisaged through the
new agreement signed at Ottawa
are excellent for us. They can
aid in the development of our
industry and culture.

This bilateral agreement is in
striking contrast to the unilater-
al decisions taken by President
Nixon which can result in the
deindustrialization of our coun-
try.

Mr. Bourassa makes himself
look ridiculous because of the
frantic shuttle he continues to
make to New York in search of
investments for the further in-
dustrialization of Quebec and to
fulfil his famous promise of
100,000 new jobs.

Mr. Bourassa goes to New
York.

Mr. Kosygin came to Quebec.

Nothing but Good

He did not come for the pur-'*

pose of exporting his unemploy-

Above, a section of a workers’ demonstration on Juné 18, '
Petrograd, the capital of Russia. The banner reads: “Peace ¥
world. All power to the people. All the land to the peoP
ner on the right calls for the defeat of the capitalist cabi

Below, young sportsmen putting on a show of grace an
Red Square in Moscow on November 7. The annual celeb
anniversary of the victorious workers’ revolution has become | 0
onstration of achievements in industry, culture and education

ful carnival of the Soviet people.

of opinion and collectively chart
a line of common struggle for
peace and for national and so-
cial liberation.

The international conference
of Communist and _ workers’
parties held in June 1969, was a
new step towards the strength-
ening of the international unity
of Communists and the consoli-
dation of all anti-imperialist
forces.

Special stress is being laid by
the CPSU and the Soviet gov-

ment to us. Unemployment
doesn’t exist in the USSR. Far
from that, with the rapid and
planned development of indus-
try, they have a continuing
shortage of about one million
workers.

Mr. Kosygin did not come for
the purpose of exporting his
problem of inflation. Inflation
doesn’t exist in the USSR. Far
from that, the 9th Five-Year
Plan envisages (and from exper-
ience the Soviet population
takes this as an established
fact) considerable increases in
wages, simultaneously with
stable prices and even the re-
duction of prices for several
durable products, reductions al-
ready achieved: in part.

They have things to teach us
in the way they have resolved
the national problem in a multi-
national country which was no-
torious in the times of the
tsars as ‘“‘the prison of nations.”

Tiny Minority

The demonstrators among the
Eastern European “ethnic
groups” came to Canada because
of their hostility to the socialist
system in their countries, going
as far as collaboration with the
Hitlerite murderers who occu-
pied their countries in the Sec-
ond World War. They represent
a tiny minority of opinion in re-

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