COMMENTS ON RESOLUTION OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE, CPSU, 30 JUNE 1956

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r:'."-t7A3ECT COMIllefitY3 an R.s.t..,:olitialon Cenkr
CPSU, 30 June 195..
Our comments ln referra+; docitrnrb& n a ifirst
rettling of the teiit
, The Resolution le an uninspired efiort to cAll otf the grea)
debate on Stfilin, Stalinism and the Soviet system whhh Was spark -
plugged by the publkation a the secret Pair astiche,, speech
.3 ft is notable .thalt the Resolution omits references to--
JO the State Deportment release ot the Ic.11--,ishchey spec-411;
b; specific criticisms of the CPSU by tn)reigia Communist
Party leade.rs
4. The main theme a the Resolution is to the effezt that the
"enemy" is issing the Stalin issue for an attack. oti the USSR and the
Soviet/Communist system and thereG)rethA4. contimiatii,Its of the .
debate would only aid the "enemy." The enemy- is agrAin particularized
as the U,S., and it is alleged that the Posna.1:: cipr?Loings were financed
by the TL 5. government frotn Seue appropriated funds.. We note that
stich argumentation is ki typically STalinist-mantuvre for quelling tte
discussion of an issue emba.rr-oatsing to the Sovicq Union.
? Insofar as the Resolution is direilted ai the n,bit Communist
Portico:, it is a clear call for laic suspension, of criticism of the CFSU
and o 'sharp remixider to close raelks around the CPSU
. 5. Indirectly kuowlecigirag that the Stalin isatie has thrown
international Communism Ut corilstiston and is shaking trliat in th.,1-
USSR? the Resolution attempts to stein the tide of criticism and
. questioning of the sysaern a.nd the cuvrent le31.dership which originated
outside the USSR. The line of the Resviution repterents tkiA effutt
impose a crude and contraciietory 5o4.t position toll, the
International movement without taking up speCifir ally the .rnoTfe
embarrassing istitics raised abroad: In our opinion the Resolution
again is Stalinist in its.e.v..asions anti in its bliZrd S At! n thAt-thrt
CPSU can do no wrong'
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b, As a further deterrent to t'.h.e debate the Resolution
Stalin's crimes siod cor:ceroratet on A atatorriont of the ottjeot400,
historical.conditions whith facilitated StaLo-Os ex;.:eeeeie T:rO4.4
ment? in contrast tu K.hruotachrotiti fecret *peech,. sonuointa to
certain justification of the repressiNe Saptzto of the Sts.lin period
a. matter of neceiteitym the it vi the enemy's 'capitalist trieorclo.,
treeto Thus the main burden of the blame im shifted otto the t-.2rtenal
enemy:, Le, ? allied intervention in connectioo with 'World War 1;
Italian and Japanese .Faseism as well as Nartiern beginning inI933o a.nd,
post World War Uvoifolding of the cold Wai,''0 It is our Imp re S LOCI Tr. hit
the Retiolution attempts to remove as much as possibU from the grt_Pak
debate the Stalin sy-stern prior to World Wo.r II by emphasizing that
this; is an historioally closed issue anyway. In /rapport of our opon.
VP! flote that the role el Soviet xecortty organs tor' tol3eriyale
asfomption of comonattet ..,1938!) is praised,, - The blatrie for "M-TX:plilt
condernnations of malty hottest Communists" is TWA' laid by the.
Resolution to "enemy machinations" rather than to Stalinaf e of
polioe terror. Forther, the Resolution stote'a that Stalin". dictator
rule was .caartalled during World Wax U when CC members end Army
Conunanders acted independently. The fail emergenze of Stalin's
tyranny is now placed by the Resolution in the past World War 111 period.
In our opinion this represent* a ccoosiderable departure: from the attaoks
on Stalin's performance during World War IL
7. The Resolution also attempts to end the grrat debate by deri.Oing:
with the question of co-responsibility of other CPSU ieaders? It if
interesting that the problem dealt with by the Resolution is no long,er
the general question of why no action against Stalin -was taken, but its
reduced to the question of why the leaders who had been able to aco
independently during Wortd War U "did not take An open SIACd igaiOlst
Stalin and remove him from leaderfhip," 'Mt* ts obvious littempt
again to curtail the debtAte yredtiorg the ?sr Td daring which
responsibility eoirid become an issue.., The Reaolotion neatly sidastepo
the issue by deoloizing that Stalin Was so popular with the misses that
"any Action against him lane/ r those oonditione wculd not have been
understood by the people," Thus? it wits 4'irg no Way A queao l'tack
of personal courage." Ntrit that the Resolution", does not cite one foog-t.r
positive "act of courage?"
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04:4dt:tied with the on of ,co-resporisibil, Tte Rt4v1r,atiurt htiii;k
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St d P4rty atct:']vily .i wch teaditeahip
"countenanced by Stalin" was Till.-Spars1 for t Ttt *L.* ah,tzrt.?unliniu,
These liehis tc agriculture? prepar4taiDn for Wid W 24.4d
foreign ,affairs, Jiawever? only relatilons "with Y?ignalavia .are
speefically mentlioited, ) Although the "Leninic Kextel" is 1%,,t1t
specifically identified, it is fair to asourne that le.lir.ishche'!?'" icigniftets
himself with it and is tal...Lng full credit f-or the ant:I-Stalin
may spec.Alate whether he implicitly threatcas be leader tlat we: Ttr
nvt in the "E.csnel" with scapeoat treatment, and ftirther, - if 0)1-4 be
so? whether noil-Kornel leaders would take such / threat lying cLnirrii,
9,, The Resolution is particularly uts.onvirpcirg when i4 comes !tz.
the defense of the Soviet systetn?, The cLtetirnert cicasty show* that
the CPSU has been or:lasting ander thiz attack,, b4it it also derno-narrste
the CPSU's inability to pro,Tide an biteIhgait deftitaw (ias cornpared,
C.& with Togliatti"it clefense!-. The E.enolation, insietd, falls tack
onto a typically S'Atlinist dogmatic posiaNt that-- a:.) Stalin did Lot
harm the Soviez systern? and b. that the system t:4 perfect and that
Stalinism dEd not are from the system,, This? uqhe eyes of the
CPSU? appears te.:i) suffice 0 close th issutt,1 The only explanation '
have for this highly unsatisfactory defense, af the vy.ottn is our a saurnp-
tion that. the CPSU desires to stifle diactlecon,, Furthtranwre? the
Resolution states flatly that there is a,./ vetei for changes tit the
system And that ?heir cv,r-reoat messureb to restlee wit at Porty
"democracy" are all that ia required,
lb, The Resoiutton further Leldtcates to the l'areign CP's th.,e;io
debate is desired by ca7t:1.011 selecting itt5.'11 -s.Y42'iilkik CP staterocnto
only those supp.rting CPSU. poslitiun er..; the aced fur dtt-Stalizitaain'
but omitting criticism levelled at CPSU leader ship-, The- CP"s 4rC.
blamed for inez.Trect irate ri...I34tations -wes CendMred
in OUT opinion, the critiaed passage quoted oy the Resolution implied
criticism of the current leodership?
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