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

ing its consequences” they have “a high regard for leaderswho . . . enjoy deserved prestige”. What does this mean?It means that, while trampling Stalin underfoot, the leadersof the CPSU laud Khrushchov to the skies.They describe Khrushchov, who was not yet a Communistat the time of the October Revolution and who was a lowrankingpolitical worker during the Civil War, as an “activecreator of the Red Army”. 1They ascribe the great victory of the decisive battle in theSoviet Patriotic War entirely to Khrushchov, saying thatin the Battle Of Stalingrad “Khrushchov’s voice was veryfrequently heard” 2 and that he was “the soul of the Stalingraders”.3They attribute the great achievements in nuclear weaponsand rocketry wholly to Khrushchov, calling him “cosmicfather”. 4 But as everybody knows, the success of the SovietUnion in manufacturing the atom and hydrogen bombs wasa great achievement of the Soviet scientists and techniciansand the Soviet people under Stalin’s leadership. The foundationsof rocketry were also laid in Stalin’s time. How canthese important historical facts be obliterated? How can allcredit be given to Khrushchev?They laud Khrushchov who has revised the fundamentaltheories of Marxism-Leninism and who holds that Leninismis outmoded as the “brilliant model who creatively developedand enriched Marxist-Leninist theory”. 5What the leaders of the CPSU are doing under the coverof “combating the personality cult” is exactly as Lenin said:1“Life for the People”, Zarya Vostoka, December 17, 1961.2“Created and Reared by the Party”, Agitator, No. 2, 1963.3V. I. Chuikov, Speech at the Rally Marking the 20th Anniversaryof the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, Pravda, June 22, 1961.4G. S. Titov, Speech at the 22nd Congress of the CPSU, October 26,1961.5A. N. Kosygin, Speech at the 22nd Congress of the CPSU, October21, 1961.134