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Socialism's road to happiness —

' Presenting the report of the
Central Committee. Nikita
Khrushchev declared that ev-
ents since the 20th Congress
in 1956 had fully confirmed
the correctness of the Party’s
Policy.

The competition between the
two world systems — Socialist
and capitalist — had become

the pivot. the main feature of |:

World development.

* After recalling that during
recent years the imperialists
Have made a number of at-
tempts to ignite the fires of a
‘ew war and test the strength
of the Socialist system. Khrush-
chev declared that on each oc-
-€asion the Soviet Union and
“all the Socialist countries have
-checked the aggressor in good
“time.

ee “In the period since the 20th

Party Congress there has been
further important change—the
Socialist system is becoming a
decisive factor in the develop-
ment of society.

“Phe events of the past years
have confirmed the thesis that
wars between States are not in-
evitable in the present epoch.
that they can be prevented.

_ After pointing out that the
€conomy of the world Socialist
‘System continues to develop at
incomparably higher rates than
capitalist economy, Krushchev
declared:
| “The industria! output of the
Socialist countries in 1960 was
6.8 times that of 1937, while
the capitalist countries had in-
€reased theirs less than 2.5
| “Fhe Socialist countries’
Share in the world industrial
production was 27 per cent in
1955 and in 1960 it was in-
creased to 36 per cent. The de-
velopment of world Socialist
€conomy has an_ industrial
trend.”

' Khrushchev said that the
completion of the organization
of producer co-operatives in
agriculture in the majority of
the Peoples’ Democracies was
the great revolutionary event
of the: period.

'\ “The Socialist sector’s share
in the total area of farm lands
on the scale of the Socialist

countries is now more es 90.

“per cent.
| “This has resulted in- a
thange in the class structure
ef society, a stronger alliance
between the working class and
the peasantry and the abolition
of the economic basis for the
expleitation of man by man.
“The moral and political un-
ity of the people, first estab-
lishea in our country, is grow-
ing ‘stronger in all Socialist
countries.
!- “The growth of the i are of
_the Socialist States,” Khrush-
they said, “means that the ma-
terial and moral factors. for
Speacé become stronger.
SOCIALISM WILL WIN
i “Today it is not imperialism
with its wolfish habits, but So-
wialism with its ideas of peace
and progress that is becoming

the decisive factor in world de- |F ;

velopment. *

a -Khrushchey _ continued: “We

are confident that. Socialism

will be victorious in the com-
petition with capitalism.

{ “We are confident that the |
victory will be won in peace-

ful competition and. not
through war.

{ Be: shave taken our stand,

and always shall
©n i aceful co-existence of

= rae fe

_and well-being

Summarized extracts from the main report delivered by
Nikita Khrushchey at the opening session of the 22nd Con-
gress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union,

The eyes of the world are on this hall where the 22nd Congress of the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union is in session. This is the New Kremlin Grand Theatre which
seats 6,000 and has facilities for simultaneous translation into 29 languages. Attending
as fraternal representatives from Canada are Tim Buck and Leslie Morris.

tems: we shall do everything
to strengthen peace throughout
the world.”

The United States has lost:

its absolute supremacy in
world capitalist production and
commerce,

The result is that the United
States today occupies approxi-
mately the same _ position
among the capitalist countries
as it did before the war.

There has been a noticeable
weakening of the positions of
Britain and France. The defeat-
ed countries have made a big
leap forward, especially West-
ern Germany and Japan.

The contradictions that exist-.

ed between the imperialist
Powers before the war have re-
appeared and new ones have
emerged.

"It is getting more obvious
that the imperialist Powers and
their leaders fear a slackening
of international tension, be-
cause in a tense situation it is
easier for them to form mili-
tary blocs and keep the peoples
in fear of an alleged threat
coming from the Socialist coun-
tries.”

Khrushchev noted that the

reactionaries count on aggres-
sion against the Socialist coun-
tries as a way out. :
- Today, he said, the role of
the chief aggressive force be-
longs to the United States
which has become the centre of
world reaction.

The United States imperial-
ists are acting in alliance with
the West German militarists
and revenge - seekers, and
threatening the peace and se-
curity of the peoples.
COLONIALISM DYING

Having pointed to the
srowth of the national libera-
tion movement, Khrushchev
said that the 60s of our century
would go down in history as
years of the ‘complete disinte-
gration of the colonial | system

| of imperialism.

He added is gna a

this period the Soviet Union,
in fulfilment of its internation-
alist duty, has been helping the
people who struggled against
imperialism and colonialism.

“There are those who do not
approve of this position, but we
cannot help that. Such are our
convictions.”

Turning to the problems of
the international Labor move-
ment, Khrushchev said that
Communists, while continuing
to lay bare the ideological
bankruptey and disruptive ac-
tions of the right wing Social
Democratic officials, wish to
co-operate with all the sound
elements among the Socialists
and join them in the struggle
for peace, democracy and soc-
ialism.

He then stressed that pro-
gres in the working-class move-
meni is inseparably bound up
with the activity of ‘the Com-
munist Parties. —

He announced that in the last
five years the close-knit fam-_|
ily of ‘Communists has increas-
ed by another 12 Parties and
the total number of Commun-
ists by seyen million. -

We are convinced that i in the
end the Socialist system will
triumph everywhere. Khrush-
chev stressed, but this in no
way implies that we will seek
to achieve its trumph by inter-
fering in the internal affairs of
other countries. a

“You cannot bring in ideas
on bayonets, as people used to
Say in the past, or on rockets,
as it would be more proper to
say now.’

Communists are against the
export of revolution. But they
do not reeognize anybody’s
right to export counter-revolu-
tion, to perform the functions
of an international gendarme.

He then went on to stress
the great importance of econ-
omic contracts -in- developing
international relations as an
important element of peaceful
co-existence. :

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“There is now a prospect of

achieving peaceful co- existence
for the entire period in which
the social and political prob-
lems now dividing the world
will have to be solved.

“The indications are that it
may actually be feasible to
banish world war from the
life of society even before the
complete triumph of Socialism
on earth, with capitalism sur-
viving in a part of the world.”

The present international sit-
uation sets the following tasks
before Soviet foreign policy:

e “Steady and consistent ad-
herence to the principles of
peaceful co- existence of States
with different social systems as
a general line of the Soviet Un-

djon’s foreign policy;

© “Strengthening of the un-
ity of the Socialist countries
through fraternal co-operation
and mutual assistance. and con-
tributing to the might of the
world Socialist system;

-® “Promotion of ° contacts
and co-operation with allwho
champion world peace;

e Strengthening of prole-
tarian solidarity with the work-
ing class and all working peo-
ple of the world; :

e “Rendering the fullest
moral and material support to
the peoples fighting to free
themselves from imperialist
and colonial oppression, or to
consolidate their independence;

© “Vigorously to extend bus-
iness ties, economic co- opera-
tion and trade with all coun-
tries that are willing to main-
tain such relations with the
Soviet Union;

e “Pursuing. of an active
and flexible foreign policy,
seeking solution of outstanding
world problems through nego-
tiations, exposing the intr igues
and manoeuyres of the war-
mongers. 4
PASS’ U.S.A.

Turning to questions connec-
ted with the entry of the Sov-

_|iet Union into the period of
’ full. ‘scale Communist construc-

tion, Khruschey said that the
USS. R. had made a great ad-
Vance towards the fulfilment of
the basic economic task of over-
taking _ and | outstripping the
most highly developed capital-
ist countries in production per
head of population.

“Keeping far ahead of the Un-
ited States: as far as the rate of.
growth is concerned, the Us.
SR. has begun in recent years

; to ‘outstrip that’ country in the

October 27, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Pa

‘of the cardinal problems of out

;nuclear reactions.

ers now have _ secondary ,

than 60 per cent of America”

production of many importan
items.

The Soviet Union now ae
counts for almost a fifth of a
world’s industrial output.

Ii spends three-quarters ©
its national income on the aa
isfaction of the personal

HS ee
quirements .of the es
people, A

At the end of 1965 there
will be no taxes levied on the ~
population in the Soviet ve
ion,

As regards the volume- and
rates of housing construction
the Soviet Union holds first
place in the world. £

Soviet scientists are engag
ed in extensive research on one i

day, that of controlling thermo :

About 40 per cent of the
country’s workers and over 23 ;
per cent of its collective farm

higher education.

The average annual rate of a
industrial growth in the Soviet
Union in the 1956-61 period
amounted to 10.2 per cent, that
of the United States to 2.3 pet
cent;

The average annual output
of manufactured goods pe&
head of population increase
by 8.2 per cent in the Soviet
Union and by 0.6 per cent i?
the United States;

The annual average increase
in investments in the past si®
years has been 12 per cent iD
the USSR, and in the United
States there has been no if* —
crease, just the reverse, has
been the case.

Industrial output in #h@
USSR today amounts to mor

outpul.

Khrushchev recalled thé!
some ten or eloven years 29°
Soviet industriel output WwW?
less than 30 per cent that of ’
the United States. «

At the present time. the
USSR has already outstripP®
the United States in the extrac
tion of iron ore and coal, t v4
production of coke, prefab!”
cated concrete elements, he@
diesel and electric locomotives .
sawn timber, woollen textiles:
sugar, butter, fish and a NUM
ber of other foodstuffs ane
manufactured items.

Khrushchev told the ce
gress that on the basis of #
growth of the national inc?
the real incornes of factory!
office and professional | worn .
ers (per employed eee
creased by 27 per cent in

ast five years.
: Those . collective saxo :
increased by 33 per cent len

Under the Seven-Year Pe
the real incomes of factory aft
fice and professional worke ia
and collective farmers wil nie
crease as much as 40 per ach

In recent years the Ue
has been building twice st
many flats per 1,000 inha
ants as have the United St
and France, and more ©
twice as many as Britain °

Italy. a
“Every Soviet citizen shoul i
attaity

take an active part
management of public sk
—that is our slogan, 5 tas

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