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Moscow Trials Frame-Ups, Kremlin Leader Now Admits Text of Khrushchev Speech on Stalin Crimes __________________ _______ w------- --------------------—------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- Despot’s Aide Claims #/Fear t h e MILITANT Kept Him Silent PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE Following is the text of the cult which became at a certain specific stage the source of a speech by Nikita S. Khrushchev, Vol. XX — No. 24 267 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1956 PRICE: 10 Cent« First Secretary of the Commu­ whole series of exceedingly seri­ nist Party, ¡Soviet Union, deliv­ ous and grave perversions of ered at a (Secret session of the pta-nty principles, of party de­ party’s 20th Congress in Moscow, mocracy, of revolutionary legal­ Feb. 24 and 25, 1956, as it ap­ ity. peared in the June 5 issue of the HARM OF CULT NOTED N. Y. Times. The text is accept­ ed as authentic by the world Because of the fact that not press land by the iStalinist Daily all as yet realize fully the prac­ Worker. Previous reports indicate tical consequences resulting Moscow Trials Frame-Ups, from the cult of the individual, that the published version has the great harm caused by the been in the hands of Communist violation of the principle of col­ Party leaders throughout the lective direction of the party world ¡for a number of weeks hut and because of the accumula­ not until it was released by tire tion of immense and limitless American State Department did power in the hands of one per­ the Stalinists announce their in ­ son, the Central Committee of tention of publishing it. Kremlin Leader Now Admits the party considers it absolute­ ly necessary to make the ftiate- Comrades! In the report of the rial pertaining to this matter Central Committee of the party available to the twentieth con­ gress of the Communist party of at the twentieth congress, in a Soviet Article number of speeches by delegates the Soviet Union. 'Confessions' Extorted to the congress, as also formerly Allow me first of all to re­ mind you how severely the clas­ during the plenary CC/CPSU Hits Stalin’s [Central Committee of the Com­ sics of Marxism-Leninism de­ munist Party of the Soviet Un­ nounced every manifestation of By Horrible Physical ion] sessions, quite a lot has the cult of the individual. In a Ro le in 1917 been said about the cult of the letter to the Gernjan political individual and about its harmful worker, Wilhelm Bloss, Marx By Daniel Roberts stated: consequences. On May 30, the Soviet maga­ And Mental Tortures A fter Stalin’s death the Cen­ Because of my antipathy to zine, Questions of History, reveal­ By George Lavan any cult of the individual, I tra l Committee of the party be­ ed that Stalin had stood in funda­ The now-revealed text of Nikita S. Khrushchev’s gan to implement a policy of never made public during the mental opposition to Lenin in explaining Iconcisely and con­ existence of the [F irs t] Inter­ March-April 1917. The magazine secret speech to the 20th Congress of the Communist sistently that it is impermissi­ national the numerous ad­ revealed the long-suppressed ac­ Party of the Soviet Union exposes Stalin’s regime as the ble and foreign to the spirit of dresses from various countries count of how Stalin in the period most brutal in al'l history and, ■$------------------------------------------------ Marxism-Leninism to elevate one iwhich recognized my merits immediately following' the Czar’s at the same time, serves to under- repudiating their confessions and person, to transform him into and which annoyed me. I did overthrow supported the Provi­ mane the rule of Khrushchev and w riting to Stal-in describing how a superman possessing super­ not even reply to them, except sional Government headed by the other leaders of the Kremlin these confessions had been ex­ natural characteristics akin to sometimes to rebuke their au­ Miliukov and other capitalist bureaucracy who succeeded S’talin. tracted from them. A ll to no thors. those of a god. Such a man sup­ politicians. Lenin’s course at that Well over half of the six-hour avail. They were shot. posedly knows everything, sees Engels and I firs t joined the time — as set forth first in speech deals with the terror and' In 1939 when the purge began secret society of Communists everything, thinks fo r everyone, letters to Pravda from Switzer­ frame-up system Stalin used to to slacken somewhat, Sitsalin sent can do anything, is infallible in on the condition that every­ land, then presented at the Bol­ destroy first the Trotskyists and telegrams to ail sections of the thing making for superstitious his behavior. shevik conference in early A pril then all other opposition in what Communist Party down to low worship of authority would be Such a belief about a man, and — was to give no support what­ had once been the democratically- echelon unit leaders justifying specifically about Stalin, was deleted from its statute. Las- ever to the capitalist government run party of Lenin. and urging the use of physical cultivated among us fo r many salle [Ferdinand Lassalle, Ger­ but to win the masses for the To those, who fo r tlhe past 2-0 torture on those under arrest. man Socialist] subsequently “Stalin will depart from years. creation of a workers’ govern­ the scene laden w ith all years have defended the Moscow Also cited is Stalin’s threat to The objective of the present did quite the opposite.” ment. Trials with the argument, “They the head of the secret police Sometime later Engels wrote: report is not a thorough evalua­ From the time of Stalin’s rise the crimes which he has confessed their guilt, didn’t they ? ” during the preparation of the Both Marx 'and I have al­ tion of Stalin’s life and activity. to power, histories of the March committed — not only as and to the puzzled, who wondered “ Doctors’ plot” frame-up: “If you ways been against any public Concerning Stalin’s merits an 1917 period have been written and aloud, “ Why did they confess?” do not obtain confessions from manifestation with regard to the gravedigger of the entirely sufficient number of rewritten with the object of con­ Khrushchev at last and officially the doctors we w ill shorten you individuals, with the exception Revolution but as the most books, pamphlets and studies cealing Sltadon’s actual role and in gave the true answer. “ Confes­ by a head.” Then, “ Stalin per­ of cases when it had an im­ sinister figure in the his­ had already been written in his order to make it appear that sions of guilt,” he admitted, sonally called the investigative portant purpose; and we most lifetime. The role of Stalin in S'talin, on his own, was pursuing tory of mankind.” — Leon “ were gained with the help of judge, gave him instructions, ad­ strongly ..opposed such mani­ the preparation and execution of the same course as -Lenin. On the Trotsky, Oct. 16, 1937. cruel and inhuman tort-ores.” vised him on which investigative festations which during our LEON TROTSKY the Socialist revolution, in the way, historians were shot; .mem­ methods should be used; these lifetime concerned us person­ civil war, and in the fight for oirs suppressed, w ith their authors TROTSKY VINDICATED methods were simple — beat, ally. the construction of socialism in either jailed, shot or forced to Thus the greatest frame-rip beat, and, once again, beat!” our country is universally known. The great modesty of the gen­ trials in all history stand repu­ rewrite their works; and the LENIN’S TESTAMENT Everyone knows this well. ius of the revolution, Vladimir minutes of the Bolshevik con­ Trotskyism Vindicated! diated as lies from beginning to A t the present we are con­ Ilyich Lenin, is known. Lenin had ference of March-April 1917 put end. Khrushchev’s speech vin­ Among the important revela­ cerned with a question which always stressed the role of the under lock and key. An Editorial dicates completely Trotsky’s tions contained in Khrushchev's has immense importance fo r the people as the creator of history, The entire political biography denunciations of the Moscow speech are quotations from party now and fo r the future — the directing and organizational of Stalin as published at his com­ In his speech to the closed session of the (11) It brought the relations of the Trials. Also verified is the “Not Lenin's suppressed testament, a [we are concerned] with how role of the party as a living and mand is one giant fabrication. 20th Congress of the Communist Party of Soviet Union with other workers’ states Guilty” verdict returned by the letter of Lenin’s wife to Kamenev, and a letter of Lenin to Sitalin — the cult of the person of Stalin creative ox-ganism, and also the The most recent issue of Ques­ the Soviet Union (see fu ll available te xt to disaster by treating these states as in­ famous Commission of Inquiry, has been gradually growing, the (Continued on page 3) tions of History contains another headed by -philosopher John all showing Lenin’s deathbed article which debunk» cherished m this issue) N ikita S. Khrushchev admits feriors and trying to impose Stalin’s bruta. Dewey, which sat in Mexico City struggle against the ruthless bu­ claims made by .Stalin to leader­ nothing less than the following: rule upon them. as a count to hear evidence reaucrat Who was to usurp the ship in heroic struggles conducted (1) The Stalin regime was guilty of To millions of revolutionary workers produced by Trotsky disproving leadership of the Oonvmunislt the.
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