te,

Oscow — The USSR in-
Rosed its agricultural produc-
| On by 50% during the past five
to averaging 1.9-million met-
© tons annually.

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Feral Committee, the Com-
£ ae Party of the Soviet Union
a 4ned the principles, of its
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Tr ’By JOHN WEIR
tibune Moscow Correspondent
MOscow — “Nothing has
€n forgotten! Nobody has been

gotten!” These assertions

Fave the multitudinous activ-

€s of the Soviet people in pre-
| Paration for celebrating the 30th

: aniversary of the day when the

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flag of victory was hoisted

Over : Henin fe
Bae Reichstag building in

leading to the climax of the ce-
ebration on May 9.

Books, all periodidals, radio
he television programs re-tell
epic story of ‘the greatest

ar in history, the. irresistible
b ve of the Soviet armed forces,
acked by the heroic labor of

© people in the factories, mines
fields.

the Soviet Union. was fighting
€ fascist rulers and not the
“Oples of the countries ‘of the
Itler coalition, that they enter-
Central and southern Europe
d Germany herself not as con-
“Werors but liberators.
fr hotos of groups taken at the,
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April is packed with events

The dominant theme is that.

50%; meat by 80%; eggs by
_more than 100%. :

Capital investment in agri-
culture rose by 180% and power
supply per agricultural worker
by 110%.

e The area of irrigated lands
has doubled and supplies of fer-
tilizers (between 1964 - 1975)
grew from 22 million to 72 mil-
lion tons. :

The CPSU plenum placed as a

Farm yield doubles in 5 years

u

main task bridging the gap be-
tween living standards in rural
and: urban areas — which in-
cludes strengthening economic
ties. Improved planning, incen-
tive payments to farmers, boost-
ing economic activities of state
and collective farms and a re-
distribution of the national in-
come in favor of agriculture have
all contributed to increased gross
output.

The photo that more than any other symbolizes the triumph of
the forces of progress over fascist oppression, shows the planting
of the Soviet hammer and sickle emblem on the Berlin Reichstag
in May, 1945.

6

are today published in Soviet
papers and magazines by vete-
rans trying to find out what hap-
pened to their comrades-in-arms.
Even now, after 30 years, moth-
ers are finding sons and daught-

Sea Oe:

ers that had been torn from their
families during those terrible
times, were taken by good people
in Poland or some other occu-
pied country and raised as their
own.

There isn’t a town, village or
hamlet where there is not a
monument with the names of
their own war dead and those
soldiers who fell in helping to
liberate their area inscribed on
ite

Two thoughts beg to be ex-
pressed before closing this
article:

First, the cause for which
they fought was the cause of all
humanity. It does not in the least
denigrate our own Canadian ef-
fort and the memory of our own
heroes to pay tribute to the
country and people that bore the
main brunt of the suffering and
fighting, the Soviet Union whose
efforts were decisive in freeing
the world from the menace of
fascist conquest.

Second, the Soviet victory, our
joint victory was won with the
promise of establishing lasting
peace on earth.. The present
early but already promising
steps to détente and disarma-
ment are the beginning of the
fulfilment of that promise.

WORLD NEWS

PRAVDA HITS U.S. THREAT TO PORTUGAL

MOSCOW — The Soviet newspaper Pravda April 3 strongly
criticized a U.S. psychological warfare campaign unleased against
Portugal in the U.S. capitalist news media. It also warned that
NATO had adopted an attitude of open hostility to the democratic
forces in Portugal.

In Portugal April 2, the first democratic electoral campaign in
nearly a half-century officially opened, with hundreds of mass
meetings and rallies by the 12-political parties taking part in the
three-week campaign. The parties range from the Portuguese Com-
munist Party on the left, the biggest and strongest party in the

‘country, to a small monarchist party on the right.

SOLIDARITY WITH PORTUGUESE COMMUNISTS

MADRID—The Communist Party of Galicia has expressed strong
solidarity with Portugal’s Communists, the Armed Forces Move-
ment, and all Portuguese democrats. The Galician CP is an auto-.
nomous part of the CP of Spain; Galicia is the originally Celtic
region taking in most of northwest Spain. The Galician language is
close to Portuguese.

The solidarity statement appeared in the March 31 issue of
Mundo Obrero (‘‘Workers’ World”), official publication of the CP
of Spain. ,

In recent months, Galicia has seen a wave of strikes, notably in
the shipyards at El Ferrol, which is dictator Franco’s birthplace.

JOINT COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AS SHELEPIN ENDS UK VISIT

LONDON — Soviet and British trade unions intend to cooperate
in the same spirit they did during World War II, when Soviet and
British working people were fighting side-by-side against their
common enemy. This was the gist of the lengthy joint communique
issued April 2 at the end of the British visit of Alexander Shelepin,
chairman of the Soviet Trade Union Central Council (STUCC). The
communique was issued by the STUCC and the British Trade Union
Congress (TUC), the 10-million-member organization which repre-
sents nearly all of British organized labor.

Shelepin was invited to Britain by the TUC as an official guest, a
move which evidently stirred fears among the British right, the
Zionists, Ukrainian fascist emigres, and the U.S. Central Intel-
ligence Agency.

The STUCC-TUS communique said that both trade union groups
will hold seminars on problems of common interest, regular joint
meetings of the STUCC and TUC, and will cooperate, “in the spirit
of the wartime Anglo-Soviet Trade Union Committee.” During his
visit, Shelepin met with Len Murray, TUC general secretary, and

with Jack Jones, head of the Transport Workers’ Union, Britain’s |

largest single trade union.

LIBERATION VICTORY IN VIETNAM MARKS A NEW ERA
SAY U.S. COMMUNISTS

The “total rout of the Saigon forces is a tremendous achievement
for the liberation program of the Vietnamese people,” the Com-
munist Party, USA, said last week. “It is a defeat for U.S. impe-
rialism and a victory for the American people.”

The victory marks a “new day — a new era — for all people,
including the American people, who want peace, democracy and
social progress,” the party said.

The statement, signed by Gus Hall, general secretary, was issued
following an extensive discussion by the party’s Political Committee.

The World Federation of Democratic Youth has designated April
4, the date of the assassination: of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., as an
International Day of Solidarity with Youth Fighting Racism in the
United States.

Extensive marches honoring Dr. King took place throughout the
United States on that date.

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