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REPORT TO THE SECOND NATIONAL CONGRESS
a wide scale, the rapid liquidation of illiteracy, the training of large
numbers of cadres for revolution, all of these tasks can be performed
only under the Soviets because they signal the sharpened class
struggle and an unprecedented victory for spiritual emancipation.
MARRIAGE UNDER THE SOVIETS
To free women from the most barbarous marriage system handed
down through thousands of years, the Soviets as early as November,
1931, proclaimed the equality of men and women in marriages by a
new set of regulations which declared complete liberty of marriage
FROM MARX
TO MAO
and divorce, abolished the sale of women as wives, interdicted child
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marriage, provisions that have all been enforced throughout the Soviet
territory. As a rule, a man of twenty may marry a girl of eighteen
by simple registration with the Soviets, provided he is free from
dangerous disease. Lineal descendants from the same grandfather,
however, cannot marry each other within five generations. Divorce
may be granted by the Soviets if one of the parties to the marriage
insist on it.
This liberation of women from the feudal marriage fetters is made
possible only under the democratic dictatorship of the workers and
peasants subsequent to NOT the overthrow FOR of the landlord-bourgeoisie
and the accomplishment of the land revolution. Men and women,
particularly the latter, must first of all have political liberty, and
also some measure COMMERCIAL
of economic liberty as a guarantee for free marriage.
More oppressed by the feudal marriage system than men,
women have been given more protection in the matter of marriage,
and the burden arising from divorce is imposed for the most part on
the shoulders of DISTRIBUTION
men.
Of vital importance to the revolution are children who we may
say are new revolutionaries, to whom protection must be afforded.
The Soviets recognize the illegal children and give them protection.
The protection of children has been laid down in the Soviet Law.
NATIONALITY POLICY OF SOVIETS
The point of departure for the Soviet nationality policy is the
capture of all the oppressed minorities around the Soviets as a means
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