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Terrific applause broke from a Glasgow audience of 1,800}

GLASGOW

last week when William Gallacher, chairman of the British Communist party and former Communist MP said:

“The name of Joseph Stalin Will be forever associated with the mighty achievements of the

viet Union. ,

“Mistakes have been made, | -Stievous mistakes. We will not try to condone them. But all the time there was steady, steady PYogress in the building of soci- Alism,” :

Th 1922, after the civil war and Wars of intervention, the Com- Munist party and people of the viet Union set themselves the mighty task of rebuilding their Shattered country, said Gallacher.

€ mass of the people were ackward, illiterate peasants. “Now — 34 years later — they | have built up one of the most ighly developed major industri- 8! countries in the world. “Never in the history of the |

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World has there been anything like it,” said Gallacher.

aybe the pace would have | ~ been More rapid if the mistakes |

ad not, been made — but never- | theless the pace was there.” [ He quoted Shakespeare. “The. at men do lives after them |

Sood is oft interred’ say |

+t e their bones.” i When tumult and dust sub- make no doubt about it, € balance will be heavy on the

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allacher. Pp speech at Coventry, R. alme Dutt, Communist party Viee-chairman described as non-} ase the assertion made by Hugh “Utskell, new leader of the| tra. Party that Stalin has been *ansformed from a hero and a “Int into a devil and a villain. St he historical achievement of alin’s, leading role after the

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. Was only during the later ae tod of Sec dky that. the of eetOus tendencies developed shin lation Of collective leader- Bk and abuse of the security or- Pech Which have now been cor-

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“2 who, in an agticle in the that West- gua _ democracy provided the fae mteds, through g@he separa- he the judiciary and the Y° system, against. the Which occurred in the

Dutt was the classic model of this Western democracy and

ended in Hitler. The Spanish Re-.

public ended in Franco.

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WILLIAM GALLACHER

‘| 20th congress of the party on

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| tice of

| one man — Stalin — and explain- |

he not only did not object to all ‘the fulsome praises which he re-

to a special private session of the

February 25 on the cult of the individual and its consequences. Khrushchev’s report has been discussed in meetings, of the So- viet Communist party, the Young Communist League and of active werkers totalling over 30 million people in the last two weeks.

“Why has our party launched | a vigorous struggle against the | cult of the individual and its con- sequences?” Pravda asks. .

“Because the cult’ of the indi- vidual signifies the attribution to certain individuals of supernatur- al features and qualities, making them almost miracle workers an worshipping them. ;

“Such incorrect conceptions of man, and precisely of J. V. Stalin, alien to the spirit of Marxism- Leninism, emerged and were cul- tivated here for many years.”

Pravda then pays tribute to the undeniable services that Stalin rendered in the Civil War, in the struggle to build socialism, in the course of which he emerg- ed as one of the strongest Marx- ists and exerted a great influence on the work of the Soviet Com-

“At that time,’ Pravda con- tinued “Stalin won popularity in the party and became known to the people. However, those feat- ures ana qualities in Stalin’s prac-

eadership which later de- veloped into the cult of the indi- vidual, gradually began to come to the fore.”

_ Pravda says that the cult of the individual must be consider:

ed against the background of the historic achievements of the

Soviet people in building social- _ism, the victory of the war, and the strengthening of the social and political system of the So- viet Union.

“These gigantic successes “in building a new society achieved by the Soviet people under the leadership of the | Communist party,” said Pravda, ‘‘were not given the correct Marxist-Lenin- ist interpretation and were incor- rectly attributed to the merit of

ed by some special merit inher- ent in him.‘ , ‘ “As: he had no personal modesty

ceived, but he supported and en- couraged them in every way.

“And as time went on, this cult of the individual assumed the more monstrous form and did serious harm.”

‘| Pravda then quotes Marx, En-

By SAM RUSSELL

Stalin's leadership assessed by Pravda

MOSCOW

Stalin was accused last week of violating Communist democracy, of personal glori- fication, and of actions leading to unjustified repression inside the Soviet Communist party jand the Soviet Union. : The charges were made in an article in the Soviet

| Communist party newspaper Pravda, the first published article of its kind sincé the report made by Nikita Khrushchev

gels and Lenin, the founders. of Communism, to show how these men went out of their way to condemn any attempts. at per- sonal glorification, while Marx was practically violent in his con- demnation of toadyism of all sorts.

But while Stalin also condemn- ed unjustified praise of indivi- duals, his condemnation was gen- eral and vague, “while in fact no resistance was put up to the ever- growing practice of personal ex- altation which he himself encour- aged in every way, sometimes even resorting to self-glorifica- tion.”

Pravda points out that Marx- ism presupposes that the working class is the builder of a Commun- ist society and that the more numerous the popular masses tak- ing part, the deeper and wider would be the social transforma-' tions of the Revolution.

‘The great advances achieved by the Soviet people were only pos- sible aS the result of their self- less labor in all spheres of de- velopment under the leadership of the Communist: party. *

“The cult of the individual which developed in the_ last period of the life and activities of J. V. Stalin did much harm.

“Stalin’s disregard of the stan- dards of party life and of the principle of collective party lead- ership, and the frequent -personal decisions taken by him, led to the distortion of the party prin- ciples and party democracy, to the violation of revolutionary law, and to unjustified’ repression. °

“Such an agent of imperialism as \Beria and his accomplices could only have wormed their way into leading positions in the party and the state as a result of the cult of the individual and the violations of the standards of party life connected with it.

“The exposure and elimination of the Beria gang by the central committee madé’it-possible to do away with the violations of so- cialist law and to restore the stan- dards and principles of party life and socialist law.” ee

Pravda says that the re-estab- lishment of the principles of col- lective leadership ‘and the fight’ against the cult of the individual since the death*of Stalin have already had, atremendous bene-_ ficial effect. =

“The ‘cult of the. individual helps to spread incorrect méthods of party leadership and economic management. Serious mistakes were made in the direction of agriculture which resulted in a

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state of backwardness in many important branches.

“The gult of the individual led to the development of many mon- strous phenomena like the white- washing of shortcomings, the em- broidering of reality and the cre- ation of false illusions.

“We still have quite a few toadies and sycophants, people who are accustomed to making speeches written by others, peo- ple who are brought up in a spirit of servility and subseryi- ence, and it is our urgent task to. eradicate and overcome all these most harmful survivals of the cult of the individual.”

“y Pravda continues by saying that Stalin’s negative influence made

jitself continually felt in publish-

ed works on philosophy, political economy, history and other social Sciences which were written un- der his guidance.

' “We see that many of them represent a collection of quota- tions from works by J. V. Stalin, and his glorification. One of the most striking manifestations of the cult of the individual. is the short biography of Stalin which was written with his direct par- ticipation.

“The Short History of the Com-

munist Party of the Soviet Union»

is also in many respects permeat- ed with the cult of the individual.”

| These two works were typical of a situation in which it was considered that only one man, Stalin, could develop and advance theory or say something original and new, all of which hampered the development of Communist theory. :

“Given such a state of af- fairs,” Pravda says, “ the col- lective role of the party in the ideological fields and party de- cisions embodying the historic experience of the party were relegated to the background.” Pravada also criticizes the many

works of art and literature, “es- pecially wartime films, works of literature and paintings mainly dedicated to the exaltation and glorification of Stalin.”

_ It says that these wartime films and books “do not throw a cor- rect light on the role of the Com- munist party and the Soviet gov- ernment, our army and people in

\the great patriotic war who ren-

dered epoch-making services de- fending our homeland and saving

all mankind from the threat of fascist slavery.” ‘

Pravda warned that it would

be wrong to imagine that a num- .ber of administrative measures

will -be sufficient to put an end for ever to this cult of the indi- vidual.’ ‘ “Paying tribute to the ser-_ vices of J. V. Stalin, soberly assessing the big contribution he made to the cause of the Revolution, to the cause of building socialism, the party at the same time resolutely raised the question of eliminating the cult of Stalin, so as to fully re- establish the Leninist ;

of state activity, to create the

_ and standards of party life and

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