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more clearly the necessity of peaceful coexistence”. 1 In particularthey have loudly announced a U.S. President’s “admissionof the reasonableness and practicability of peaceful coexistencebetween countries with different social systems”. 23. They advocate “all-round co-operation” with imperialistcountries, and especially with the United States. They saythat the Soviet Union and the United States “will be able tofind a basis for concerted actions and efforts for the good ofall humanity” 3 and can “march hand in hand for the sake ofconsolidating peace and establishing real international cooperationbetween all states”. 44. They assert that peaceful coexistence is “the general lineof foreign policy of the Soviet Union and the countries of thesocialist camp”. 55. They also assert that “the principle of peaceful coexistencedetermines the general line of foreign policy of the CPSUand other Marxist-Leninist Parties”, 6 that it is “the basis ofthe strategy of communism” in the world today, and that allCommunists “have made the struggle for peaceful coexistencethe general principle of their policy”. 76. They regard peaceful coexistence as the prerequisite forvictory in the peoples’ revolutionary struggles. They holdthat the victories won by the people of different countries have1N. S. Khrushchov, Report to the Session of the Supreme Soviet ofthe USSR, January 1960.2“On the Interview of the U.S. President J. Kennedy”, editorial boardarticle in Izvestia, December 4, 1961.3Telegram of Greetings from N. S. Khrushchov and L. I. Brezhnevto J. F. Kennedy, December 30, 1961.4N. S. Khrushchov, Speech at the U.N. General Assembly, September23, 1960.5N. S. Khrushchov, Speech at the Reception Given by the Embassyof the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in the Soviet Union,July 5, 1961.6B. N. Ponomaryov, “Some Problems of the Revolutionary Movement”,World Marxist Review, No. 12, 1962.7“Peaceful Coexistence and Revolution”, Kommunist, Moscow, No. 2,1962.276