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Gallacher, Dutt

Terrific applause broke from a Glasgow audience of 1,800}

GLASGOW

last week when William Gallacher, chairman of the British
Communist party and former Communist MP said:

“The name of Joseph Stalin
Will be forever associated with
the mighty achievements of the

viet Union. ,

“Mistakes have been made, |
-Stievous mistakes. We will not
try to condone them. But all the
time there was steady, steady
PYogress in the building of soci-
Alism,” :

Th 1922, after the civil war and
Wars of intervention, the Com-
Munist party and people of the
viet Union set themselves the
mighty task of rebuilding their
Shattered country, said Gallacher.

€ mass of the people were
ackward, illiterate peasants.
“Now — 34 years later — they |
have built up one of the most
ighly developed major industri-
8! countries in the world.
“Never in the history of the |

|
I
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World has there been anything
like it,” said Gallacher.

aybe the pace would have |
~ been More rapid if the mistakes |

ad not, been made — but never- |
theless the pace was there.” [
He quoted Shakespeare. “The.
at men do lives after them |

Sood is oft interred’ say
|

+t e
their bones.” i
When tumult and dust sub-
make no doubt about it,
€ balance will be heavy on the

Sides,
th

allacher.
Pp speech at Coventry, R.
alme Dutt, Communist party
Viee-chairman described as non-}
ase the assertion made by Hugh
“Utskell, new leader of the|
tra. Party that Stalin has been
*ansformed from a hero and a
“Int into a devil and a villain.
St he historical achievement of
alin’s, leading role after the

na

. Was only during the later
ae tod of Sec dky that. the
of eetOus tendencies developed
shin lation Of collective leader-
Bk and abuse of the security or-
Pech Which have now been cor-

Dutt also replied to Aneurin

“2 who, in an agticle in the
that West-
gua _ democracy provided the
fae mteds, through g@he separa-
he the judiciary and the
Y° system, against. the
Which occurred in the

Dutt was the classic model of
this Western democracy and

ended in Hitler. The Spanish Re-.

public ended in Franco.

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WILLIAM GALLACHER

‘| 20th congress of the party on

‘{munist party.

| tice of

| one man — Stalin — and explain- |

he not only did not object to all
‘the fulsome praises which he re-

to a special private session of the

February 25 on the cult of the
individual and its consequences.
Khrushchev’s report has been
discussed in meetings, of the So-
viet Communist party, the Young
Communist League and of active
werkers totalling over 30 million
people in the last two weeks.

“Why has our party launched |
a vigorous struggle against the |
cult of the individual and its con-
sequences?” Pravda asks. .

“Because the cult’ of the indi-
vidual signifies the attribution to
certain individuals of supernatur-
al features and qualities, making
them almost miracle workers an
worshipping them. ;

“Such incorrect conceptions of
man, and precisely of J. V. Stalin,
alien to the spirit of Marxism-
Leninism, emerged and were cul-
tivated here for many years.”

Pravda then pays tribute to the
undeniable services that Stalin
rendered in the Civil War, in
the struggle to build socialism,
in the course of which he emerg-
ed as one of the strongest Marx-
ists and exerted a great influence
on the work of the Soviet Com-

“At that time,’ Pravda con-
tinued “Stalin won popularity in
the party and became known to
the people. However, those feat-
ures ana qualities in Stalin’s prac-

eadership which later de-
veloped into the cult of the indi-
vidual, gradually began to come
to the fore.”

_ Pravda says that the cult of
the individual must be consider:

ed against the background of
the historic achievements of the

Soviet people in building social-
_ism, the victory of the war, and
the strengthening of the social
and political system of the So-
viet Union.

“These gigantic successes “in
building a new society achieved
by the Soviet people under the
leadership of the | Communist
party,” said Pravda, ‘‘were not
given the correct Marxist-Lenin-
ist interpretation and were incor-
rectly attributed to the merit of

ed by some special merit inher-
ent in him.‘ , ‘
“As: he had no personal modesty

ceived, but he supported and en-
couraged them in every way.

“And as time went on, this cult
of the individual assumed the
more monstrous form and did
serious harm.”

‘| Pravda then quotes Marx, En-

By SAM RUSSELL

Stalin's leadership
assessed by Pravda

MOSCOW

Stalin was accused last week of violating Communist democracy, of personal glori-
fication, and of actions leading to unjustified repression inside the Soviet Communist party
jand the Soviet Union. :
The charges were made in an article in the Soviet

| Communist party newspaper
Pravda, the first published article of its kind sincé the report made by Nikita Khrushchev

gels and Lenin, the founders. of
Communism, to show how these
men went out of their way to
condemn any attempts. at per-
sonal glorification, while Marx
was practically violent in his con-
demnation of toadyism of all sorts.

But while Stalin also condemn-
ed unjustified praise of indivi-
duals, his condemnation was gen-
eral and vague, “while in fact no
resistance was put up to the ever-
growing practice of personal ex-
altation which he himself encour-
aged in every way, sometimes
even resorting to self-glorifica-
tion.”

Pravda points out that Marx-
ism presupposes that the working
class is the builder of a Commun-
ist society and that the more
numerous the popular masses tak-
ing part, the deeper and wider
would be the social transforma-'
tions of the Revolution.

‘The great advances achieved by
the Soviet people were only pos-
sible aS the result of their self-
less labor in all spheres of de-
velopment under the leadership
of the Communist: party. *

“The cult of the individual
which developed in the_ last
period of the life and activities
of J. V. Stalin did much harm.

“Stalin’s disregard of the stan-
dards of party life and of the
principle of collective party lead-
ership, and the frequent -personal
decisions taken by him, led to
the distortion of the party prin-
ciples and party democracy, to
the violation of revolutionary law,
and to unjustified’ repression. °

“Such an agent of imperialism
as \Beria and his accomplices
could only have wormed their
way into leading positions in the
party and the state as a result of
the cult of the individual and
the violations of the standards of
party life connected with it.

“The exposure and elimination
of the Beria gang by the central
committee madé’it-possible to do
away with the violations of so-
cialist law and to restore the stan-
dards and principles of party life
and socialist law.” ee

Pravda says that the re-estab-
lishment of the principles of col-
lective leadership ‘and the fight’
against the cult of the individual
since the death*of Stalin have
already had, atremendous bene-_
ficial effect. =

“The ‘cult of the. individual
helps to spread incorrect méthods
of party leadership and economic
management. Serious mistakes
were made in the direction of
agriculture which resulted in a

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state of backwardness in many
important branches.

“The gult of the individual led
to the development of many mon-
strous phenomena like the white-
washing of shortcomings, the em-
broidering of reality and the cre-
ation of false illusions.

“We still have quite a few
toadies and sycophants, people
who are accustomed to making
speeches written by others, peo-
ple who are brought up in a
spirit of servility and subseryi-
ence, and it is our urgent task
to. eradicate and overcome all
these most harmful survivals
of the cult of the individual.”

“y Pravda continues by saying that
Stalin’s negative influence made

jitself continually felt in publish-

ed works on philosophy, political
economy, history and other social
Sciences which were written un-
der his guidance.

' “We see that many of them
represent a collection of quota-
tions from works by J. V. Stalin,
and his glorification. One of the
most striking manifestations of
the cult of the individual. is the
short biography of Stalin which
was written with his direct par-
ticipation.

“The Short History of the Com-

munist Party of the Soviet Union»

is also in many respects permeat-
ed with the cult of the individual.”

| These two works were typical
of a situation in which it was
considered that only one man,
Stalin, could develop and advance
theory or say something original
and new, all of which hampered
the development of Communist
theory. :

“Given such a state of af-
fairs,” Pravda says, “ the col-
lective role of the party in the
ideological fields and party de-
cisions embodying the historic
experience of the party were
relegated to the background.”
Pravada also criticizes the many

works of art and literature, “es-
pecially wartime films, works of
literature and paintings mainly
dedicated to the exaltation and
glorification of Stalin.”

_ It says that these wartime films
and books “do not throw a cor-
rect light on the role of the Com-
munist party and the Soviet gov-
ernment, our army and people in

\the great patriotic war who ren-

dered epoch-making services de-
fending our homeland and saving

all mankind from the threat of
fascist slavery.” ‘

Pravda warned that it would

be wrong to imagine that a num-
.ber of administrative measures

will -be sufficient to put an end
for ever to this cult of the indi-
vidual.’ ‘
“Paying tribute to the ser-_
vices of J. V. Stalin, soberly
assessing the big contribution
he made to the cause of the
Revolution, to the cause of
building socialism, the party at
the same time resolutely raised
the question of eliminating the
cult of Stalin, so as to fully re-
establish the Leninist ;

of state activity, to create the

_ and standards of party life and

ee