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odies, from leading Party and government organizations toeconomic and cultural and educational departments, dismissingthose they do not trust and planting their protégés inleading posts.Take the Central Committee of the CPSU as an example.The statistics show that nearly seventy per cent of the membersof the Central Committee of the CPSU who were electedat its 19th Congress in 1952 were purged in the course of the20th and 22nd Congresses held respectively in 1956 and 1961.And nearly fifty per cent of the members of the Central Committeewho were elected at the 20th Congress were purgedat the time of the 22nd Congress.Or take the local organizations. On the eve of the 22ndCongress, on the pretext of “renewing the cadres”, the revisionistKhrushchov clique, according to incomplete statistics,removed from office forty-five per cent of the members of theParty Central Committees of the Union Republics and of theParty Committees of the Territories and Regions, and forty percent of the members of the Municipal and District Party Committees.In 1963, on the pretext of dividing the Party into“industrial” and “agricultural” Party committees, they furtherreplaced more than half the members of the CentralCommittees of the Union Republics and of the Regional PartyCommittees.Through this series of changes the Soviet privileged stratumhas gained control of the Party, the government andother important organizations.The members of this privileged stratum have convertedthe function of serving the masses into the privilege of dominatingthem. They are abusing their powers over the meansof production and of livelihood for the private benefit oftheir small clique.The members of this privileged stratum appropriate thefruits of the Soviet people’s labour and pocket in comes thatare dozens or even a hundred times those of the averageSoviet worker and peasant. They not only secure high in-441