Polemic on General Line of International ... - From Marx to Mao

they lifted it against the teachings of Marx, Engels andLenin!” Khrushchev himself repeatedly extolled Stalin as an“intimate friend and comrade-in-arms of the great Lenin”, 1as “the greatest genius, teacher and leader of mankind” 2 and“the great, ever-victorious marshal”, 3 as “the sincere friend ofthe people” 4 and as his “own fathere”. 5If one compares the remarks made by Khrushchov whenStalin was alive with those made after his death, one will notfail to see that Khrushchov has made a 180-degree turn in hisevaluation of Stalin.If his memory is not too short, Khrushchov should of courseremember that during the period of Stalin’s leadership hehimself was particularly active in supporting and carrying outthe then prevailing policy for suppressing counter-revolutionaries.On June 6, 1937, at the Fifth Party Conference of MoscowProvince, Khrushchov declared:Our Party will mercilessly crush the band of traitors andbetrayers, and wipe out all the Trotskyist-Right dregs. . . .The guarantee of this is the unshakable leadership of ourCentral Committee, the unshakable leadership of our leaderComrade Stalin. . . . We shall totally annihilate theenemies — to the last man — and scatter their ashes to thewinds.On June 8, 1938, at the Fourth Party Conference of KievProvince, Khrushchov declared:1N. S. Khrushchov, “Stalin and the Great Friendship of the Peoplesof the Soviet Union”, Pravda, December 21, 1939.2N. S. Khrushchov, Speech at the 18th Congress of the CPSU(B),Pravda, March 15, 1939.3N. S. Khrushchov and others, Letter to All the Officers and Menof the Soviet Red Army, Pravda, May 13, 1945.4N. S. Khrushchov, “Stalin and the Great Friendship of the Peoplesof the Soviet Union”, Pravda, December 21, 1939.5N. S. Khrushchov, “Stalinist Friendship Among the Peoples —Guarantee of the Invincibility of Our Motherland”, Pravda, December21, 1949.128