Comrade ST ALIN- Leader of Progressive Mankind
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G. MALENKOV Comrade STALIN Leader of Progressive Mankind FOREIGN LANGUAGES PUBLISIDNG HOUSE G. MAL EN K 0 V Comrade ST ALIN Leader of Progressive Mankind FOREIGN LANGUAGES PUBLISHING HOUSE Moscow 1950 The present edition is a translation of a pamphlet written by G. Malenkov on the occasion of J . V. Stalin's seventieth birthday, published by Gospolitizdat, Moscow 1950. A quarter of a century ago Comrade Stalin vowed in the name of the Party to fulfil the behests of Lenin with credit. This vow resounded as a battle call to the Party, to the working class, to the Soviet people; it was the guiding star in the historic struggle for the transformation of social life, for the building of socialist society. Comrade Stalin led our Party and the Soviet people along Lenin's path. He upheld and developed Lenin's theory of the possibility of building Socialism in one .country. Carrying out Lenin's behests, our Party, led by Comrade Stalin, effected the socialist industrialization of our country and the collectivization of our agriculture, and converted the Soviet Union into a great industrial and collective-farm socialist power. Comrade Stalin understood Lenin's inspired ideas re garding a Marxist party of a new type with a profundity equalled by none; he protected the purity of the teaching of Marx-Engels-Lenin, developed the Marxist-Leninist theory, and steeled the Party in battle against numerous enemies; he has trained, and continues to train, cadres capable of advancing the cause of our Party. In October 1917, in the Civil War, in the years of intervention, when Comrade Stalin, together with Lenin, directed the Socialist Revolution and the vanquishing of the enemies of Soviet power, in the Great Patriotic War, when he directed the vanquishing of some of the most powerful enemies of our Motherland-at all these momen tous turning points of history, the grandeur of Stalin was manifest to the whole world. II TDgether with the great Lenin, CDmrade Stalin fDunded the first SDdalist State in the wurld. Under the banner Df Lenin, under the leadership uf CDmrade Stalin, Dur mighty MDtherland, the SDviet Land, whDse Ip,eDples are bDund.by amity and friendship, is alive, growing and gain ing strength. In the secund wDrld war, when the world was menaced by the dark f01'ces Df fascism, and human civilizatiDn was threatened with destructiDn, CDmrade Stalin, heading the Suviet UniDn, persDnally directed the defeat of Hitler's hurdes, secured the victDry Df the peace-IDving natiDns, was the recDgnized leader iIn the grim struggle fOol' the liberatiDn uf mankind frDm the fascist yuke. "\¥hen the secDnd wDrld war was ended, and new aspirants to wDrld dDminatiDn' appeared on the s{'ene, Comrade Stalin urged the peoples tOo fight resDlutely against the instigatDrs Df ,a new wurld war, and welded the partisans of peace intD a mighty furce. CDnsistently and relentlessly eXJposing the incendiaries Df a new war, CDmrade Stalin became the leader Df the great mDvement fur peace. CDmrade Stalin is rightly regarded as a great and luyal friend Df the freedDm-IDving natiuns uf the PeDple's De mucracies, liberated from faseist subjugatiDn, and Df the peuples ad' China and Nurth KDrea, whu have thrDwn uff the imperialist yoke Dnce and fOol' all. That is why the peuples Df the Soviet UniDn and all prDgressive humanity IDUk u.pDn CDmrade Stalin as their recDgnized leader and teacher. That is why tDday they SD express their warm IDve and devotion tOo CDmrade Stalin and acknDwledge his great services in the struggle fur a h3jppy life and fOol' peace amung nations. Cumrade Stalin's name has IDng been a symbDI uf peace in the minds Df the peDples Df all cDuntries. All WhD are anxiDus tOo cDmbat the instigators Df a 4 new war know and are convinced that they make no mistake in rallying around Comrade Stalin, the great de fender of peace. Having lived through the Ihorrors of the last world war, humanity yearns for peace and is firmly opposed to another carnage. It is because of this that all peoples welcome with gratitude the resolute and unqualified policy of \peace pursued and upheld by Comrade Stalin. Try as they may to slander our socialist country, the warmongers will not succeed in destroying the conviction of the common people that the Soviet Un10n is a sincere champion of peace and consistently works to safeguard peace throughout the world, that our country, as Com rade Stalin says, is capable of pursuing and is actually pursuing a policy of peace, and is doing so not hypo critically, but honestly and frankly, resolutely aIO!d con sistently. Their reckless and presumptuous designs having been exposed, the warmongers are endeavouring to deceive the common people by falsely asserting that the Com munists consider it impossible f'0r socialist countries and capitalist countries to coexist in peace. They endeav our to camouflage their criminal activities in preparing a new war by slandering the sincere p'0licy of peace pursued by the Communists. Yet Comrade Stalin has very definitely declared time and again that the Soviet Union proceeds from the fact that the two systems-Socialism and capitalism-must in evitably exist side by side for a long time, and firmly adheres to the line of loyal and peaceful relations with all states which manifest a desire for friendly coopera tion, Iprovided the principles of reciprocity and fulfilment of obligations assumed are observed. The Soviet Union's foreign policy, conducted under the guidance of Comrade Stalin, is aimed at ensnring 5 durable peace among the peoples and strengthening to the utmost friendly cooperation among the peace-loving nations. And on repeated occasions since the second world war, too, Comrade Stalin has precisely stated in reply to ques tions that peaceful and Iprolonged cooperation between the U.S.S.R. and the capitalist countries is entirely pos sible. It will suffice to recall at least tbe following £orthright and unambiguous statements of Comrade Stalin. In September 1946, Mr. Alexander Werth, MosC()w correspondent of the Sunday Times, asked Comrade Stalin whether he believed that, with the further progress of the Soviet Union towal'ds Communism, the chances of peaceful cooperation with the outside world would re main undiminished insofar as the Soviet Union was con cerned, and also whether "Communism in one country" was possible. To this Comrade Stalin replied: "I do not doubt but that the possibilities for peaceful cooperation will not only not diminish, but may even increase. 'Com munism in one C()untry' is quite possible, eiSpecially in a country like the Soviet Union." In December 1946, Elliot Roosevelt asked Comrade Stalin whether he thought it possible that such a democ racy like the United States could live peacefully side by side in this world with such a communist fO'rm of govern ment as existed in the Soviet Union, and that attempts would not be made by either side to interfere in the inter nal political affairs of the other. Comrade Stalin replied: "Yes, of course. This is not only possible but sensible and quite feasible. In the most tense periods of the war the differences in form of government did not prevent our two countries from uniting and defeating our eneruies. 'To an even greater extent is it possible to preserve these relations in peacetime." 6 In April 1947, Comrade Stalin said in the interview with Mr. Stassen: " ... One should not indulge too much in criticism of .one another's system. Every people adheres to the system it wants and is able to adhere to. Whkh system is best, history will show. One must respect the system chosen and approved by the people. Whether the system m the U.S.A. lis good or bad is the affair of the American peotple. Nations need not have identical systems in order to cooperate. One must respect the systems chosen by the people. Only on this condition is coopera tion ·possible." In May 1948, in reply to Mr. Wallace's open letter, Comrade Stalin wrote: " ... The Government of the U.S.S.R. considers that, notwithstanding the differ ence i!n economic systems and ideology, the coexistence of these systems and peaceful regulation of differences between the U.S.S.R. and the ,U.S.A. are not only pos sible but absolutely essential in the interests of general peace." In January 1949, Mr. Kingsbury Smith, European general manager of International News Service, asked Comrade Stalin whether the Government of the US.S.R. would be prepared to consider the issuance of a joint declaration with the Government of the United States of America asserting tIlat tbe respective governments have no intention of resorting to war against one another, and whether the Government of the U.S.S.R. would be pre pared to join with the Government of the United States of America in measures designed to implement ~his Pact of Peace, .such as gradual disarmament, Comrade Stalin replied that "the Soviet Government wuuld be pr€lpared to consider the issuance of such a declaration," and fur ther: '''It goes without saying that the Government 'of .the U.S:S.R. would cooperate with the Government of the United States of America in measures designed at 1 the implementation of a Pact of Peace and leading to gradual disarmament." This is what Comrade Stalin says, expressing the de sire of the Soviet people for peaceful, constructive labour. for the establishment of friendly relations among the peo ples of all countries. TIle Soviet Union considers the line of iPeaceful competition with capitalism quite acceptable.