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By V.N. Martynenko
Ambassador and Permanent Representative
Of the Ukrainian S.S.R. to the United Nations

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N Ovember 7th, 1977 is the sixtieth anniver-
Sary of the Great October Revolution. It was
on this day, six decades ago, that. the re-
Volutionary masses of workers and peasants

_ Of the former tsarist Russia led by V.I. Lenin

and the Bolshevik’s Party, wiped out social
and national oppression on one sixth of our
Planet. The working people of Russia rose to
Power. ~ ‘

Society. During this period, the land of the
Soviets has made tremendous achieve-
Ments. On the basis of Marxist-Leninist doc-
trine, the Communist Party successfully
Solved one of mankind’s most complex prob-
lems — that of relations among nations. Solv-
ing the nationalities question is one of the
greatest gains of socialism and one of the
‘Major prerequisites of its victories. Building

ON mutual fraternal assistance, the peoples ~

of the Soviet national republics have arisen
from an abyss of poverty, backwardness and

lack of rights to a free and rich life, both :
Materially and spiritually. They have con-_

Structed modern industry, raised national

., 5ix decades is a long period of fime in the
life of an individual, but not in the life of a

Growing stronger

together—

leaders, created cultures, national in form jay

and socialist in content.

What was the Ukraine like before the Re-
Volution? It was a semi-colonial province of
the tsarist empire and was called “‘Little
Russia” by its rulers. The Ukrainian work-
Ing people had to carry a heavy buggin of
Social and national oppression. They ¥e
Oppressed by tsarism, their ‘‘own
foreign landlords, and capitalist

-€conomy of the Ukraine’s major indus
Tegions was practically in the hand
foreign capitalists. ©

Today the Ukraine is an autonomous
and having become master of their
destiny, the Ukrainian people have tui
their country into a flourishing land d
he years of Soviet power. At presen
Tainian SSR is Europe’s largest pr
of pig iron, steel, rolled metal, long-dist
diesel-locomotives, natural gas and iron
Side by side with a rapid growth of t
tional industries there appeared mé
Ones: air-craft, motor-car, tract
instrument-making, radio-electron
Synthetic diamonds industries.
It is difficult to imagine that while pr
he Revolution 70% of the Ukraine’s po
tion was illiterate, today, every third ci
Studies and illiteracy has long been e:
Cated. The Republic boasts 143 establigg
_Ments of higher education, 730 seconda
~ nd 26,000 general schools..In 1975, the La
9n Compulsory Secondary Education was
adopted in the Ukraine.

Merly a tool of everyday communication it: :
ame the instrument of all spheres of so-

Cial life — public management, press, sci-

ence and culture. More than 2,000 newspap- —

-€fs are published in the Ukraine, (1,600 in
<rainian) with a total circulation. of 23.9
Million; 506 journals and magazines and an-

ually up to 9,000 titles of books and

rochures.

There are now 27,000 public libraries,
With a total bookstock of 316.6 million titles,
Serving 38 million readers.

The scientific discoveries of the best
Works of writers, artists and composers have

Ome a heritage of multinational Soviet

science and culture and have won the world’s
-acclaim. — : :
Today’s Ukraine — a Soviet Republi
with a powerful economy and sophisticated
culture — is one of the world’s most de-
veloped countries. It is a sovereign state in
the fraternal community of Soviet republics

which plays an important role in the interna- .

tional arena.

_ Ukrainian people
and socialism

Close to 1,000 Ukrainian enterprises ex-
port products to 99 countries of the world (12
Socialist, 22 industrially-developéd
capitalist and 65 developing countries).

Inspired by their successes in socialist
and communist construction, the Ukrainian
people continue to make a considerable con-

tribution in developing the Ukraine’s na-
_ tional economy and culture in fulfillment of

_ new apiLiang

plans mapped out by the 25th CPSU Congress
and the 25th Congress of the Communist
Party of the Ukraine. The ninth five-year
plan was successfully completed — the vol-
ume of industrial output grew 41.3% and ag-
ricultural output — by 15.5%. An immense
program of capital construction was im-
plemented. During that period alone, close to
300 large-scale industrial enterprises were
commissioned. The Ukraine’s output of steel
(53.1 million tons) exeeds twice that of
France, 2.2 times that of Italy and 2.4 times
that of Great Britain. The hands and intelli-
gence of the working person has radically
changed the face of Ukraine and the working
people have themselves changed along with
it.

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The Ukrainian people do not know, and
will never know what unemployment is —
socialist economy has done away with crisis.
The right to work is guaranteed each citizen.
In addition, socialism has raised the working
masses to history-making creation, to the
management of industry and social affairs.
No wonder it is labor that determines today
man’s status in the society.

Who are they; miner Alexei Stakhanov,
combine operator Alexandr Guitalow,
tractor-operator Pasha Angelena, farmer’s
team-leader Eugenia Dolinyuk? Who are
those people, known by everyone not only in
Ukraine, but all over the Soviet Union? They
are men and women of labor and that is why
they are held in high esteem. During the
ninth five-year plan period the title of Hero of
Socialist Labor was conferred on 257 indust-
rial workers, among them miner I. Strel-
chenko, steel founder E. Proshkin, docker A.

:; Baranovsky, seamstress T. Bychenok and
- weaver E. Voloshkevitch.

Workers and peasants make up 72.3% of
the deputies to the local Soviets in the
Ukrainian SSR.

Due to the efforts of millions of Ukraine’s
workers, the Communist Party’s slogan,

“Everything in the Name of man, for the

nefit o@Man’”’ is being realized. For exam-
le, ip 1971-1975, close to 9 million citizens of
le Neeine celebrated housewarmings, in
“wards every fifth family received a
t. An increase in salaries and

ofistantly accompanied by arise
Al incomes of the working people.

wages wa
in the #

- Priceg@f food products remained at the
. $a evel, while there were price reduc-

Por certain items (TV sets, clothings,
ical products, etc.). Social services
roved. —

Providing medical care is one of the main
sks of the socialist state. In the Ukraine, as
round the whole Soviet Union, medical care
rom preventive medicine to complicated

surgery, is free. There are 32 doctors for
each 10,000 people, twice as many as in Great
| Britain, Japan and other developed
- capitalist countries.

Ukraine generously shares its achieve-
ments with other nations. Thus, the Ukraine
Republic makes a considerable contribution

to various UN-sponsored programs. For

mahy years now, the International Work-

shop for Iron and Steel Engineers has been in
operation in Zaporozhye and the Interna-

tional Workshop on Welding operates in
Kiev. Some 500 specialists from 40 countries,
mostly from developing ones, have partici-
pated in the workshops. International semi-
nars and symposia were held on gerontology,
protection of the environment, etc.

Close to 13,000 students from 108 countries
of the world receive higher education in the
Republic’s educational establishments.
More than 4,000 Ukrainian engineers and
technicians took part in the USSR’s program
of construction aid to 29 newly independent
countries.

“. .. Ukraine is declared a Republic of
working people, soldiers’ and peasants’ de-
puties. . .” Those words were pronounced in
Kharkiv December 15, 1917 at the All-
Ukrainian Congress of Soviets. Since then
exploitation, social and national oppression,
lawlessness and illiteracy have disappeared
forever and new vistas opened for the pros-
perity of each citizen and all the people of the
Ukrainian Soviet State.

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